I'm debating on whether I should weigh once a week or once in the morning. The once a day thing is getting very depressing because I don't see anything happening. What do you all do?

I have been weighing myself every morning because I was only banded 10 days ago and I am still losing pretty quickly. It is amazing to actually see the scale go down on a daily basis!

Of course, this is only temporary. I am guessing by six weeks (or sooner), when my weight loss slows down, I will start weighing myself once a week, maybe twice.

Ok, I am obsessed. I have to move the scales from the bathroom - every time I am in there, I always jump on. Which at the moment with my liquid diet is all the time! I only record my weight each Tues since my band was placed but I just can't help seeing the numbers drop!

I go from the every day obsession to the once-a-week recording and back again every week. I work on a remote mine site on an 8 day on/6 days off shift and when I'm home, I weigh myself every morning without fail and often several times a day (only the lowest counts!!). That is a continuing source of frustration as my weight does fluctuate a couple of pounds a day due to fluids, etc. When I'm away on site, I don't have access to scales, so have to just tough it out till I get home. It's a great feeling when I get home and can see the results of a week in one go. I wish I could just make do with once a week, even when I'm home, but I just can resist it on a daily basis when I'm there.

when i stopped weighing myself everyday and went to once a month...i started to lose more weight. i started focusing more on setting up my day with healthier eating and exercising instead of obsessing over the scale (which i did for years).

i find when i weigh myself alot i usually am cheating and trying to see if i can "beat the scale"

i also measure myself once a month because during my lapband journey....i sometimes lost inches over weight....

Hi Steph...

I weigh once a week every Monday Morning totaly naked after I use the bathroom and wash my Face!! ( what a ritual right!!). And I keep a Journal/Chart of the date and weight and what I am feeling at the time. I was banded 10/29/07 and have lost 33.5 lbs. I still have not got to my perfect feeling FILL. I go monday 01/21/08 for my 3 rd fill. I'm keeping my fingers crossed this will be the one.

Good luck to you!!

Connie

I weigh every morning when I wake up- after I pee, naked before my shower. And if for some reason I end up taking a second bath or shower after a evening workout or something- I weigh again.

hello i was banded by dr elliott also at richmond surgical group... i am from south hill va near the nc border..

I like to weight myself only if I feel like I have lost some weight.

The discussion on this thread has helped me decide how to handle weighing. Initially, I wanted to only weigh at the doctor's office but I'm just not patient enough to wait for four or five weeks at a time. And I couldn't seem to stop myself from weighing daily.

So now I'm going to weigh each morning and only record the new low weight. A weight that is higher than that is merely a fluctuation (though some fluctuations have been known to last for a week or two, at least in the past.)

But I think this approach is better for my psyche. :girl_hug:

Hehehe - I have a similar approach when home. When I hit that plateau/regain phase in the post-op, I REFUSED to update my ticker until I could show that it had moved down again. It took from 14 Dec to 3 Jan before I could update it, but I wasn't going to update it UPwards!

Hehehe - I have a similar approach when home. When I hit that plateau/regain phase in the post-op, I REFUSED to update my ticker until I could show that it had moved down again. It took from 14 Dec to 3 Jan before I could update it, but I wasn't going to update it UPwards!

My body seems to "try on" a new weight and then waits awhile before it buys it. Maybe it's on a layaway plan. :girl_hug:

You all have been awesome! Great reasons for weighing...including obsession. I completely understand.

I think I have decided to try the every few days plan. Once a week is just too infrequent and once a day is driving me nuts. So....on Friday I decided I wasn't going to look at the scale until Monday....and then on I went on Saturday. So now, I promised I wasn't crawling on until Friday. I'm out of town tonight so won't have an opportunity until Thursday.....oh the willpower!

I weight myself after shower, before dressing. My eyes aren't open enough before shower. Hell, somedays I don't even bother turning on a light to shower....let alone read a scale :rolleyes2:

Thanks for all your input

LOL - I couldn't do that! I have long hair and wash it every day. Weighing after the shower would include all that wet hair and water weighs a lot, as we all know!! Hehehe!

I weigh only once a week. More often and I get frustrated with the daily fluctuations.

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I use it to track my food and exercise mainly but I try to keep the other info pretty current as well. It also lets you print your reports to take to your doc or nutritionist so you can show them exactly what you are eating, drinking, and how much you are working out so they can make better decisions about doing fills or spotting problems.

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