I'm just about 3 weeks out of surgery, and thinking of switching to only weighing monthly.

I don't want to become obsessive about the number on the scale and I don't want to constantly be trying to change how I eat / exercise just because I'm not losing as fast as I think I should. I want to do what my doctor told me to do and let that be the end of it.

My question is, does anyone else do this? Has anyone else done it from this early in the process? Is it doable, or will I most likely just go crazy and weigh every day anyway?

If you weigh monthly, are you happy with that? Are your losses still normal / good?

@@mnmlst I had surgery on 11/3 and I only weighed in at my dr apt so far. I have a scale but I don't use it. I'm pretty early out too and I don't want the scale stressing me out while my body is in the process of healing. I'm doing what I'm suppose to do so I'm not worried about it. I see people almost daily posting and freaking out because they didn't lose A week or not enough for them ect...,even us early birds when really our focus should be on getting our nutrition/fluids in and healing. There's nothing this early out that we can do about it anyway. I may weigh more a couple months from now when I can eat better and "may" need to make adjustments but Right now it's kinda pointless. Unless you just want to see the numbers that's fine too but it does no good to freak out about it. To each his own! Now, I heard about the 3 weeks stall and I was thinking this morning are they saying on the 3rd week you stall or do you stall for 3 weeks?

Edited November 19, 201411 yr by Elode

thinking only weighing monthly.

@@mnmlst

i could never do that

need to see that "number" on the scale

make sure i'm "ok" right on the ball

really a mental thing

i know i'm eating and drinking etc right

then i am fine

but I do "mess" up sometimes

go to my scale daily, for me

if you are strong enough to stay away from the "green eyed monster"

more power to you

whatever works for you - go for it

there is no "right" or wrong answer (unless doc or NUT tell you to weigh at their time schedule)

keep up the great job

i know you will

good luck

kathy

That's pretty much what I did for the first six months. I wouldn't have done it if I weren't absolutely religious about weighing or measuring everything I ate and tracking it on MFP -- I had a lot of confidence that I was eating according to my team's plan. It worked well for me. I had a lot less stress and freaking out than I see here about what the numbers on the scale did today, yesterday, etc.