Stepping on the scale.....

[crystalloveball 9]

I haven't weighed in several days, and I'll prob continue to do so. About once or twice a week seems like enough. Lots of different things effect my weight (constipation, retaining Water, maybe more). I think weighing too much can make you feel discouraged.

-Crystal Ball

[Kindle 8,667]

I don't own a scale, either. When I was losing, I only weighed at the doctors office, I think I stepped on the scale 5 times in the first 3-4 months. If you are following the plan you will lose whether you weigh yourself or not. I had a hundred NSVs confirming it.

I've actually found the scale more useful once I was in maintenance. I step on the scale at work a couple times/month, especially after a vacation or holiday or particularly carby weekend. This is fully clothed, after Breakfast and coffee, so it's not 100% "accurate", but it gives me a general trend and good enough for accountability.

The non-scale method has worked for me for almost 2 1/2 years and I Guarantee I had a less stressful time in the beginning than 90% of the people on here that obsess over the numbers....I just wish I had a buck for every scale related complaint on here.

[OutsideMatchInside 10,166]

I weigh everyday now. Part of it is to teach me not to be attached to the scale and to also learn about fluctuations. It was hard for me to get to this point, but now it is easy to do and not freak out about the numbers.

The reason I was able to get so large in the first place was I never weighed myself, I was only weighed at the Dr. That let my weight get completely out of control.

Now I weigh myself every day, but only one day a week counts are my record. I am doing this and making it normal habit so I am prepared for maintenance down the road. I want to weight myself every or every other day for life. When I seen an upward trend I want to stop it at 10 pounds instead of letting the weight pile up.

[Sophie74656 1,572]

I weigh myself every morning. I don't freak out if the number goes up a little but I do look back to what I ate the previous day

[BelgianGuy 350]

I weigh myself once a week, every Thursday (which happens to be the day of my surgery), even if sometimes I sorta feel the need to weigh myself randomly (the damn scale is right next to the shower, so it's tempting). I'm afraid that if I weigh too often, I'll become scale addicted

[lisamstevens 53]

I do not weigh myself at all. For me personally, I'm approaching this weight-loss surgery tool as a new beginning doing things I normally would not have done in the past such as focus on the number on the scale. I can see that I'm losing weight the number itself doesn't matter to me it's the feeling becoming a healthier person.[emoji6]