I'm one week away from RNY and I don't even own a scale. Anyone else not care to track their weight at home?

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I kind of wish that I didn't have a scale! I get so obsessed with weighing myself!

I just could not live without my scale. It is just one barometer in how you are doing but I learned so much about my eating habits because of it.

You see, I was one of the crazy people that weighed every day, once per day at the same time every morning.

As time progressed I learned how to have a good relationship with my scale. I would talk to it and explain if I already knew it was not going to be good and other times it surprised me.

What I really learned was that if I chose to go off plan and ate something really salty that I was literally going to retail Water that would show up as a gain of 1 or 2 lbs. I knew it wasn't real because I certainly didn't eat enough to gain 2 lbs but I learned that if I choose to go off plan, the scale will be my truth. Because of it, I rarely went off plan enough to make that scale go the wrong way. It only has happened a few times.

In addition to leveraging the scale I used clothing to tell me how I was doing. Even if I was in a stall and the numbers didn't move, my clothes were getting smaller in places. The scale kept me honest.

That is just the way I approached . Now that I am at maintenance I weight myself maybe 3 times a week and even sometimes once per week.

Again, my clothing tells me if I am losing or gaining or maintaining.

Im two days away and I dont own a scale either. I literally haven't home tracked my weight in 10 years. As a teen my mother would always make me weigh myself as she shoved diet pills down my throat. I hated it. Because then I became obsessed with checking it, and subsequently depressed when it could no longer determine my weight.

I've been looking for one to purchase, but I haven't really seen it thru. I know eventually Im going to need one. But Im going to give myself a month or two, just a chance to adjust without that added stress of "oh my god Im not losing fast enough" right out the gate.

It's never too late, until its too late

I think that as you start to lose you will become more interested in your scale and the number. For now, the doctor visits will give you a good barometer as to where you are.

You just do You! There's no hard fast rule on the scale!

As other have said you don't have to, and it may be something you don't want to obsess with. I stopped tracking mine after about a year but I also noticed some weight creeping back on and decided I needed to be more accountable than my occasional doctors appointment. The I discovered my scale is actually broken so I'm going out after work to pick up a new one.

I never liked weighing before, but I weigh very often now. As already mentioned by Djmohr it is a good tool for me to see what is working and what isn't. I can tell if I'm lacking fluids, retaining Water, stalling... And oddly enough there have been a few times where a day of eating a bit more has jump started my weight loss again. It has really helped me understand what my body needs better. But that's the beauty of this whole process. You figure out what works for you as you go and you stick with it.

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