I did my first diet when I was ten, because I was seriously overweight.
I had over thirty pounds of excess weight gained in two years, due to a hormonal problem.
I lost them by myself and, believe me, it wasn’t easy and I’ll tell you what I ate here.

But is it possible to achieve a healthy weight without a scale? Or is it necessary to weigh yourself to lose weight?
The answer is it depends. Sometimes weighing ourselves is an obstacle to our weight loss, at others it is an incentive.

Getting to a healthy weight without a scale.
When is it useful to try and why to do it.

Nicole Scherzinger , an American celebrity who claimed to be obsessed with optimal weight and balance, reached her balance and a healthy weight for life only after throwing it in the garbage.

If you too are obsessed with the rising and falling needle, you can understand the frustration of those who cling to a scale to reassure themselves about their weight. In reality it is an obsession, in fact, therefore a disorder.

For years I too have made the mistake of weighing myself often and this is of no use.
If you’re in control and tend to take the scales at face value, weighing yourself often can even be counterproductive to losing weight.

When to weigh yourself then? And when not to weigh yourself? Here are my answers.

WHEN IS WEIGHING YOURSELF NEEDED TO REACH YOUR WEIGHT FORM?

There are cases in which the balance can be our ally , as long as we do not turn the weight into an obsession.

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• If your doctor tells you to because you are very overweight.
• When you are on a diet and want to monitor the results (but in this case only as a guide).
• In case you want to be sure that you are always in the ideal weight that you have so painstakingly achieved
  (okay, but once a month is enough).
• When you are sure you have gained pounds and want to go on a diet, for example after the holidays and after a vacation (once a week after the first day you started the diet).

WHEN WEIGHING YOURSELF IS HARMFUL OR USELESS TO REACH YOUR WEIGHT FORM

1. If you are a woman, from the three days prior to your period until the end of your menstrual period.
2. When you are not on a slimming diet, but in maintenance (just once a month, always in the morning and at the same time or once every two to three months if you see that your clothes always fit the same. Or once in a while, without a fixed deadline)
3.  After a binge, the day after the holidays, a pizza, an invitation. You still have a full stomach, what’s the point?
4. Immediately after a session in the gym (you have lost water).
5. After eating salty foods or overdoing alcohol (weight gain occurs due to water retention).
6. In case you are on a diet but are naturally also easy to obsess about (impose yourself only once a week).
7. If you are not well, you are taking medications, have problems with regularity, have had colic, etc. These are all cases where weight swing occurs.

The question arises spontaneously .
But without scales how do we know if we are in our optimal weight?

Well, if you exercise and eat right, the dress rehearsal is enough to know if you should go on a diet or not.
If the skirt is tight, you have taken no less than two kilos and maybe you need to review something.

The secret to maintaining a healthy weight is knowing how to regulate yourself .
Alone. It is not a tool to tell us if we are fit, it is us.