To ask if anyone else weighs themselves several times a day?

[whynowblowwind]

I can't seem to stop - before a week after a week basically every time I go into the bathroom I HAVE to have a look!

Is it just me?

I used to, mate, but it was when I was anorexic. Not to put too fine a point on it.

Nowadays I'm fat and happy, and I weigh myself if I suspect I've got a bit heavier or lost a bit a bit quickly. It is for knowledge purposes, not judgy purposes. And it happens about once every couple of months.

Are you having a few issues thinking about weight and your relationship to your body? I hope this is not a rude or arsey question, but when I was a size 4 and secretly throwing food away and trying to survive on Tic-Tacs and Diet Coke, the scales had a fatal attraction. There's something about knowing exactly what weight you are which is seductive. I would suggest not getting pulled in, because in my experience getting pulled in takes you to bad places. For me, constant weighing was the first sign.

I don't own any scales and have absolutely no idea what I weigh.

I haven't had scales for years and I don't need them, but I do kind of miss them. I once weighed myself during a tummy bug and I lost half a stone in one morning!

It isn't healthy but I find that sort of thing a useful motivation tool if I'm doing a crash diet!

When I'm not weighing myself and eating what I like I pile the weight on. I'm on a vlcd atm and I should weigh weekly but I do daily as it's part of my routine. Healthy, maybe not but I used to drink a bottle of wine everyday and I think this is preferable

I do most days just out of curiosity but not more than once.

I made a conscious decison not to have scales in the house, so haven't weighed myself for several decades. Having been both anorexic and bulimic in the past and having severe clinical depression played a part in that decison, as did becoming a mother, as I didn't want to risk my daughter becoming obsessed by weighing herself.

I don't have scales on the house for this reason. It fuels anxiety. Hope your ok op.

I don't have scales in the house. I weigh myself maybe every few months, if I'm at the IL's house.

What is so unhealthy about seeing how much you weigh?

Isn't it just part of monitoring your health?

I think most of you who don't own scales probably have a fairly consistent weight; I gained 3 stone in 6 months once so I need to keep an eye!

It doesn't fuel anxiety, unless there's an underlying issue. You can't say having scales in the house 'fuels anxiety'.

It's not true.

I weigh myself about once a week or so, and I only ever weigh myself first thing in the morning, naked, after I've been to the toilet. If I weighed myself at different times, wearing different clothes, I wouldn't be comparing like with like, so the results would be meaningless.

I think yours is probably the optimal weight monitoring strategy MrsPennyapple!

I gained 3 stone in 6 months once so I need to keep an eye!

Weighting yourself weekly would be "keeping an eye". Weighing yourself everytime you go in the bathroom is not normal. You need to address why your weight is controlling you and stop trying to justify your behaviour as normal.

Fair point Margaret and also op.

I'm not, Chipped. I was responding to people who never really weigh themselves or of they do it's a couple of times a year. Please don't speak to me like a naughty ten year old.

Fgs it's just stepping on the scales, anyone'd think whynow had said she has a toke on a crack pipe every time she's in the bathroom!

The only time I didn't own scales I put 2 and a half stone on in one year...I am also in the camp that I need to keep an eye on the actual numbers. That said I do usually weigh myself every day and incline to the slightly obsessive, but only as I know what happens when I'm not!

That's on my thread in chat suzanne (joke!)

I quite like seeing the numbers as I am okay with my weight at the moment, I could lose a stone but I've not long had a baby so I'm not giving myself a hard time. The thing is that I am a bit bored and restless and keep wanting to eat (this solves everything, in my world) so I do need to keep an eye and seeing I'm at am okay weight but only just helps with this.

What I want is a body scanner which tells me my exact lean and fat mass plus bone density and cholesterol levels.
Nothing obsessive about that I'm sure :o

bone density would be great, getting to an osteoporotic kind of age here

Decades ago I had an Eating Disorder (binge eating) & that's partly why I've never owned a set of scales. I need to manage things by focusing on real life not numbers. I can tell my body size roughly by which trousers fit best. That's the most monitoring I should ever do.

DS had to go twice to an emergency clinic last month, when they asked how much he weighed I hadn't a clue. Later we found scales while visiting a friends' house & all 4 DC were fascinated to get some numbers, they even insisted on weighing me. So I have some numbers which may be accurate for a little while.

Scales are one of the things info not own. Along with a thermometer and an iron