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Totally agree with JulieG. It's easy to weigh yourself once every morning and will not drive you insane at all. On the contrary, if you log your daily morning weight into a spreadsheet software, you will be able to spot fluctuations from real gains or losses within a few days by comparing them to earlier values. This helps to quickly lose gains or to relax diet rules when you lose too much.

I managed to lose over 50 pounds in within the first 9 months of 2008. Now I intend keep this off permanently and so far daily weighing does a great job assisting me with this.

Already had to do this myself (without having any clue about it)- and guess what - it is covered in the car's manual, just like other tasks you could perform yourself.

So just leaf through that manual once and make sure you have it in the car at all times and you'll be OK most of the time...

Difficult to say. But I was given one life changing gift last year - a Magic Bullet-type food blender. Cost like $30 max and I didn't really wanted one - in fact, I considered it to be a thoughtless gift.

As it was in the house I started to use it anyway and it triggered a change in my diet - suddenly I was replacing snacks with carrot/apple mush on a daily basis. Together with a more active lifestyle I managed to lose 50 pounds (or nearly 25%) of my body weight) and am really happy.