Does anyone else . . . - ThinnerTimes

racha9 · 06-25-2007, 03:32 PM

weigh themself everyday? I do. Am I the only completely scale obsessed person here? BTW, I did this before I had surgery too. Although it wasn't as fun pre-op - more scarry and sad

Hunnyblonde · 06-25-2007, 03:42 PM

I still weigh everyday. I know they say not to, and Bridget always yells at me, but it's part of my routine. I get up, pee, weigh and get on with my day. Yeah, it stays the same a lot of the time, but I don't obsess over that. Because I do this, I know my body's cycle of loss now. I know that for a couple of weeks I don't lose anything and for a couple of weeks I'll lose. No biggie. It helps me and that's what's most important.

Besides, if I started obsessing, Lee would take my scale away.

Gina in NY · 06-25-2007, 05:49 PM

It helps me. I don't lose very fast anymore, but it helps me to look at the daily changes. I can usually tell now if I haven't had enough water, when my period is coming or whatever. If it is ever a couple pounds too high, I'll know right away and I'll nip it in the bud!

It is proven that folks who weigh every day lose more weight than folks who don't, but that wasn't an experiment done on post GBP people. Just dieters in general.

I will say that for 6 months, I only weighed once a week because I was obsessed. Now, I'm relaxed about it. I don't stress, it doesn't mean a whole lot. I mean, these numbers are 110 below what I started at, it is hard to get too worried about it. "Oh gee - I weigh 178 today..." It is still hard to remember to say ONE hundred anything instead of TWO hundred.

So when you're relaxed and use it as one of your many tools, it can help. If it tells you who you are and if you're worthy of love, throw the thing in the trash!!!

SDeRossett · 06-25-2007, 05:59 PM

I am NOT a good example. I'm OCD, and I know it! I not only weigh myself in the morning after I get up and pee (I think that's your true weight), I have a cup of coffee and go check again just to see if it's lying to me. I usually check it once or twice between the time I get home from work and the time I go to bed. I'm soooo BAD, BAD, BAD. I've always obsessed over my weight. I can't help it - I can't stop it. I would freak out if they hid the sacles on me. To me it's my way of keeping myself on track. If I see it go up a few pounds then I know I have to cut back and really pay attention to what I'm eating calorie wise. I'll be five years July 23, 2007 since open RNY. I'll be 43 this year (Sept.) and I have lived ALL my adult life obsessing over the scale. For those of you out there that are new post opers --- listen to what they tell you about only weighing your self once a week. It will make you crazy weighing your self every day not to mention the disappointment IF you didn't lose that pound. Please don't follow me down this road of obsession. I was just answering a question posted. Rambling on now. So I'll end it.

Sharon

Tim · 06-25-2007, 06:46 PM

Yep I weigh every day. In the morning, after I pee.

Baron Patrick · 06-25-2007, 06:53 PM

Me to. I get a rush watching the numbers go DOWN!

I'm sure the phase will pass, and I no longer will be obsessed with the scale - like when I throw the damn thing out!

LQQkn · 06-25-2007, 07:12 PM

never weigh out of obsession, in fact I never weighed until I couldn't keep weight on me, and now I do it daily only to see what I need to do for eating that day. I know if the weight has dropped I need to up my calories and really make sure it happens, or I will get really sick, and I don't want to go there again. So I'm not the usual duck. Janie

CandyGirl101 · 06-26-2007, 05:08 AM

I'm like Gina in NY, I would like to catch things so that I can change it and nip it in the bud early if need be. I weigh myself everytime I go the bathroom for anything. I know it's crazy but I enjoy seeing those numbers drop. I am obsessed about it so much now that I have my fiance asking me what the scale said because he knows that I weigh myself soooo much.

LOL!

Dyann · 06-26-2007, 05:43 AM

I weigh everyday. I even bought a doctors scale for my home one month post op. The digital was just too haphazzard. There are daily fluctuations, but I know myself. One day will turn into 2, into 10 into a month and next thing you know there are 10 pounds where there shouldn't be. It doesn't dictate my mood, it just keeps me in line now.

CeeCee · 06-26-2007, 01:11 PM

I know me- it's a slippery slope, so I pick and choose my obsessions! I weigh in once a week at my TOPS meeting. Today- no weigh-in at all, as I miss my TOPS meeting to attend my monthly WLS Support Group meeting.

For years I didn't step on the scales, didn't want blatant confirmation of what was happening to me. Then I became afraid my scale wouldn't go high enough...

I still expect bad news when I step on the scales. I was afraid of wasps when I was a child, still am. I feel the same way about the scales...