To Weigh In Or Not To Weigh In

It's always been a hot-button issue around here: to weigh in, or not to weigh in. A lot of people that I respect say throw out the scale, hide it, forget about it and find some other, healthier way to measure yourself. In a big picture sense, I get it. Adopting a healthier lifestyle makes you healthier, not becoming a Pavlovian weigh-in machine. The problem for me, I guess, is that the people espousing the "ditch-the-scale" mentality are those who: (1) have already lost their weight; or (2) have little weight to lose. 

To be honest, I find myself weighing in every few days, after a bad meal, after a night of drinking, after I had those two spoonfuls of ice cream or a high-sodium day. I weigh in before a run, after a run, at the gym, at home, at any scale I can find, before a swim, after a swim. It's always there. I do it under the guise of a fact-gathering mission, claiming that I'm trying to learn about how food and exercise affects my weight on a day-to-day basis, but it's clear that all I'm looking for is reassurance...

Reassurance that if I'm doing the "right" things that progress will be had. Reassurance that if I slip up that all my hard work is not undone.

Long story short, I'm not sure how to find that short-term reassurance without the scale.