I gotta scale before surgery…I'm 9 days out of surgery and I'm having a hard time not weighing myself everyday. I've been trying to stop because a lot of the times it has bummed me out because my weight has been fluctuating. So I was wondering should it be a once a week thing? or stop worrying about the scales for awhile? Ive been walking a at least a mile a day and following my diet plan.

Edited January 16, 201511 yr by gamecockfan864

@@VSGAnn2014, you take your wedding ring off before weighing yourself! That must be some hunka rock!

Oh yeah, right. And I remove my diamond studs, too.

@@VSGAnn2014, that sounds like male swimmers that shave their chest hair because it might slow 'em down! :-)

Friday morning just after I get up. Never more than once per week. If I'm in a stall, I weigh ever two weeks.

I only weighed myself a couple times/month in the beginning. I can actually remember each one....

day 1 of preop diet,

day 11 of preop (to make sure I was losing what my surgeon required)

surgery day

postop day 5 (when I returned from Mexico)

postop Day 11 (New Years Day)

6 weeks, 7 weeks, 10 weeks, and 3 months.

Don't even know if I had the infamous 3 week stall! But I do know I gained 3 pounds between weeks 6 and 7 and still weighed the same at 10 weeks. Then randomly lost 13 pounds by the 3 month mark. Not weighing myself drove one of my friends crazy. She had bypass 8 years ago and she weighs daily. She couldn't believe I never knew my weight when she'd ask. It was fun torturing her ????

Ever since then I've weighed once/week so I have something to post on the challenges on here. I don't own a scale, so I weigh at work on the dog scale (after Breakfast and coffee), fully clothed with shoes or boots. No clue what my actual naked weight is.

For me, NSV's mean so much more than numbers

Edited January 17, 201511 yr by Kindle

I gotta scale before surgery…I'm 9 days out of surgery and I'm having a hard time not weighing myself everyday. I've been trying to stop because a lot of the times it has bummed me out because my weight has been fluctuating. So I was wondering should it be a once a week thing? or stop worrying about the scales for awhile? Ive been walking a at least a mile a day and following my diet plan.

Hi,

I don't own a scale, I don't want to be tempted. I weigh myself when go to my doctors appointments. I make sure I follow my food diary and exercise. That's what has worked for me.

I have weighed every day since surgery. I don't flip out if it's up a pound or two, but I do cut back. I track and trend it weekly. Now that I'm maintaining, I take an average monthly.

so far once a week, on sundays I weigh in and record my measurements!

Are you kidding me??? My scale sits right next to my toilet, and I weight myself everytime I go to the dang bathroom... LOL LOL

Are you kidding me??? My scale sits right next to my toilet, and I weight myself everytime I go to the dang bathroom... LOL LOL

Yup. 14-21 times a week!

I weigh myself daily. It keeps me accountable. I only track it in my spreadsheet on the 1st of every month when I take measurements. I think you have to do what works for you. I know everytime I have gained weight in my life its when I was avoiding the scale so I need the accountability daily. I dont let small flucuations freak me out but if I gain a pound I know I am more concious of Water intake the next day etc.

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For me, NSV's mean so much more than numbers

Hi,

I don't own a scale, I don't want to be tempted. I weigh myself when go to my doctors appointments. I make sure I follow my food diary and exercise. That's what has worked for me.

I use my food diary to keep myself accountable. I'm sure most people don't review their food diary like I do, but I started my food diary because I wanted to be healthier, not just skinnier. I can look at my calories count and my macro-nutrients and know whether or not the scale will move. Initially it took time, but now it's a few seconds typically once in the morning and once at night. I learned how to balance my sodium, sugars and carbs and how it would effect my body. I was also able to identify food allergies and intolerances that were showing up on allergy testing.

Once I figured out how to balance these things I felt better, had fewer allergy attacks and tons more energy. Like @@Kindle said NSV's mean so much more than the numbers on the scale for me.

Maybe 2 times. Bi-weekly.

I weigh daily and note down in my weight lost journal (someday with the meals, water, exercises or activity) for reference to learn about the circle of my body. It helps me not to freak out when II hit the stall which happen every 2 months each time around 10 days). After 5 months post-op I increased the hours of the exercise from 6 hours/week to 8 hours/week and the scale continued to move down smoothly.

I weigh almost every day, sometimes more than once, and I do it a random times as well. If for nothing else it lets me see a pattern.

Do I retrain Water at certain times? Am I dehydrated after working out? You can actually calculate how much water you have lost and how much liquid you need to replace from your weight. Is my weight different at night or day?

It's more scientific curiosity than anything else as well as when I see it go up for any reason (or down for that matter). I can then look back at amassed data and quickly figure out what exactly has happened from previous examples.

little psycho about weighing myself. morning, night, all the time. I don't let it get me down but I think it helps me understand my diet too. big dose of sodium (pizza or something salty) it goes up and stays up. hydration. bm. I just don't let it get me down when it stops moving for several days at a time.

Every morning. Keeps me on track. I'm not upset when I bounce a few pounds.( up or down) I know it will move again . It's helping me to understand maintenance.