I'm pre op July 13th- but of course trying to read everything I can before. I see threads where people get nervous if they haven't lost from one day to the next- how often do you weigh yourself?

I weigh once weekly.

I never understood the daily weighers, everyone knows weight can fluctuate day to day, yet drive themselves crazy weighing and worrying about those same factors that can make the weight fluctuate.

I'm one of those people who weigh daily. It's a hard habit to break and you like to see results and daily results make you feel GREAT. Only advice I have is to weigh yourself straight away in the morning after you empty your bladder to get the most accurate!

But I would recommend weekly. After my two week appointment I am going to try my best to weigh only weekly! (I had surgery Monday)

I weigh myself daily but only record my weight every Monday. I get to see the daily fluctuations and can adjust my eating and exercise accordingly. My weight loss is slow but that is perfectly fine with me. I have yet to gain any weight.

Twice A Week Is Enough

Weekly.

I'm ridiculously obsessed and have been weighing in multiple times a day while on the pre op diet. I'm overly anxious about making sure that I lose weight before surgery day. It's way too much. The people who are weighing in weekly are probably healthier, but I don't think I'm going to be able to resist daily weigh ins.

I weigh daily so I can see how calories or certain foods affect my weight. However I do not freak out if it goes up or stalls simply because of water weight or hormones. I just like to know where I am

I weigh daily so I can see how calories or certain foods affect my weight. However I do not freak out if it goes up or stalls simply because of Water weight or hormones. I just like to know where I am

I don't understand this. Our bodies are complex systems, not simple machines.

You can see effects long-term, but not in the short term (daily). There is no way you can draw a direct cause and effect conclusion based on limited inputs and outputs yet I see people do this all the time and it drives them crazy. (ie, I ate a donut last night and I gained a pound this morning so eating a donut is the end of my life OR, I ate a donut last night and lost a pound this morning, therefore it's ok if I eat a donut every night).

My solution, do what I am supposed to do and only weigh at the Doctors office for now.

Thanks everyone -

Every morning

I weigh twice a week on Fridays and Mondays. I think weighing every day would not be good for me mentally, focusing on the numbers too much. I hope to get to once a week as I get closer to my goal weight (21 more lbs)

I don't weigh myself unless I go to my sisters house where's there's a scale and I'll write down but other than that I don't really think about it and when I least think I lost weight that when I loose the most. My pre op diet I didn't think I lost that much and I lost 21 lbs and I found that out the day of my surgery.

I weigh daily so I can see how calories or certain foods affect my weight. However I do not freak out if it goes up or stalls simply because of Water weight or hormones. I just like to know where I am

I don't understand this. Our bodies are complex systems, not simple machines.

You can see effects long-term, but not in the short term (daily). There is no way you can draw a direct cause and effect conclusion based on limited inputs and outputs yet I see people do this all the time and it drives them crazy. (ie, I ate a donut last night and I gained a pound this morning so eating a donut is the end of my life OR, I ate a donut last night and lost a pound this morning, therefore it's ok if I eat a donut every night).

My solution, do what I am supposed to do and only weigh at the Doctors office for now.

I know it doesn't show immediate results or outcomes. However, for me, weighing daily shows me a few things: 1) if my weight drops a ridiculous amount, say more than a pound a day, I go back and look to see if I trained harder or drank less over the preceding days and adjust my liquids. 2) if I go up I also look at possible hormone levels ( where I am in my cycle) or how my diet or exercise was different or how my calories varied in the preceding days. It helps me narrow the window of how far back to research. I can do this because I log everything... Liquids, food, and exercise

Edited May 17, 201511 yr by Weighting2BeFree

I weigh my self every morning.. I wish i could break this terrible obsession as it plays on my mind all day every day. In all honesty, i guess I'm so afraid to put all this weight back on, that i feel some strange comfort in being able to control it by weighing daily.

I am a daily weigher as well. I have been doing so for almost 8 months now and it works for me. I use it as one tool to help me gauge my progress. I have had to learn how to deal with weight fluctuations and I handle it extremely well.

I have been able to see trends from week to week and month to month and it keeps me on track.

You have to do whatever works for you personally. If you cannot handle the fluctuation, then choose to weigh in at your doctors office or weekly at home or whatever works for you.

This happens to work for me.