Before surgery, I made the conscious decision not to purchase a scale. In previous weight loss attempts, I have become unhealthily obsessed with weighing myself. I chose to only weigh at the doctor's office and/or nutritionist appointments so that I could focus on following the plan and not allowing the numbers to influence me. My plan is to invest in a good scale when I enter maintenance.

On the plus side, I don't see stalls, if any are happening. The numbers have no bearing on me and I really like that. However, I'm still 4 weeks out from my next appointment and really interested in where my weight loss is at this point. I know I've lost since my last doctors appointment, I just don't know how much.

Now I'm curious as to how often others are weighing. If you weigh at home, how often are you weighing and how do yiu feel about it? Anyone else choosing not to step on the scale?

Once a month or at the doctor's whichever comes first. Otherwise the scale makes me crazy. This way I focus soley on eating well and exercising. I didn't even replace the battery in my home scale until after my 6 mth f/u. I only did it then because I wouldn't see the baritric team again until my 1 year f/u. Even then if I had a medical appointment coming up where I knew I would be weighed, I wouldn't weigh at home.

I weigh my self every morning and it fluctuates about half a pound or so between days but it goes down I'm participating in the Halloween challenge so Mondays at home and Fridays at work are when I record my weight

I weight myself once a month on my surgery date. Once I weighed myself twice in once month because I had added more calories after being exhausted for weeks and I wanted to see what effect it had on the scale. For me, more than once a month would make me nuts and obsessive. The other plus side of once a month is that the weight loss number is bigger.

I weight myself once a month on my surgery date. Once I weighed myself twice in once month because I had added more calories after being exhausted for weeks and I wanted to see what effect it had on the scale. For me, more than once a month would make me nuts and obsessive. The other plus side of once a month is that the weight loss number is bigger.

And if you do experience a stall you never notice it.

@@BLERDgirl exactly!

I weigh myself every morning, as soon as I wake up and go to the bathroom

I weigh myself every morning. I have a FitBit scale, that records both weight and body fat % and automatically uploads the values to my FitBit.com account. No need to record, it's done for me. I like data, so I measure daily.

Now, so far I am only one week out from my surgery, so I haven't seen any stalls yet (though I have experienced stalls in the past with weight loss). But I'm not terribly worried. The scale is only a tool. It records one metric (or in my case, two). There are others: body measurements, clothing size, visual appearance, stamina (e.g., steps walked), calories consumed, etc.

Taken together, over time all of these metrics help me to understand what is going on, and decide if I need to change things or if I am doing great.

My self worth is not determined by my scale or any physical measurement.