Poll! How often did you weigh yourself pre op?

 Almost never at home and only when absolutely necessary at the doctor's office (about once a year). Hearing/seeing that number once a year was bad enough and, let's face it, when you are only 5'3" tall does it really matter much whether you weight 299 or 310 or 330?

Lora

 daily. since my first major weight loss in 2006 i became obsessive with the scale even though it made me feel helpless when i was doing everything right and it kept going up

I am still pre-op. I weigh myself when I think about it. If it shows a weight loss since the last time I tend to weigh myself every day to see if it is "real" weightloss and stop when it gets back to the previous number until something triggers me to check it again. My normal triggers are pants fitting looser or feeling good about myself... I'm sure the shrink would say it's self sabotauge and he'd probably be right.

Before I had weight loss surgery, I weighed at every doctor's visit. Most of the time, I closed my eyes and mind to the reality of the number presented. It was way beyond my "Gadzooks" limit, and so I just didn't want to know. I'm pretty sure, from some videos made of me at about a year before I started to lose weight, that I was closer to 400 than I was to 350, but the first measure I had put me at 350. I didn't own a scale.

I did weigh once a year, since 2003 when I signed up with my PCP that I still have. I go in for well-woman visits each year.

I don't think that the frequency (or lack thereof) honestly had ANYTHING to do with my skyrocketing weight. I got married. My single-girl lifestyle had me eating one meal a day, when I remembered, and it was BIG (I liked volume).... and chugging full sugar sodas. But meeting and marrying hubby, and also having a job that provided me three meals a day (it was a boardign school) meant I was eating far more frequently, and I was happier, and happiness and increased calorie consumption were the debil for me. Particularly because hubby is a snacker, adn I wasn't. 

I got to weighing daily after 3 weeks out, and I really liked that. I went through a few periods of not weighing and getting all paranoid that I was gaining, but when I nervedc myself to step on the scale I was the same or lower. I'm gonig through the same thng now, only when I do step on the scale my weight IS going up and it's driving me batty. I had an epiphany as to the singular change (aside from the whole moving the body = pain) and that is that with our overcrowded classroom sizes, I can't prowl around the classroom every class period Like I used to. I'm stuck in a tiny little 9 cubic square space, and I don't have room to move like I did before. Basically the only exercse program I had going has flopped, pretty much on the heels of my surgery that resulted in diminished muscle mass. So I know I need to change things. And I'm working on it.

Now I weigh once a week or so.. Hate the scale because it's a meanie.

I weighed myself less than once a year.
I was scared of what the number would be. I am not in denial about my size. I just didn't want to deal with the number.

 Every day.  Still do.  I don't freak out about fluctuations - I'll swing within the same 5 pounds between 133-138.  It's the trend I'm keeping an eye on.

I weighed all the time. Every day, if not a couple times a day. It was always just habit and curiosity, though. The number never freaked me out (obviously, as I let it continue to climb)

But honestly, it really does feel like this weight gain was super gradual. I gained a lot of weight with both my kids. After my pregnancies, I would remain the same weight for weeks and sometimes a month or two at a time, and then it would creep up a few pounds. Rinse and repeat for a couple years. Because I was in so much denial about my size, the number usually didn't bother me. I'd see it and think, "Hm. Funny how it keeps going up, and yet I don't look any different!"

[Edit to add] I only remember one time when the number on the scale seriously upset me.
I had just had my daughter in 2010. I'd ballooned up to 260lbs during my pregnancy. I had a cesarean, and when I went to my first postpartum appointment, I was super excited to see how much weight I'd lost with the birth. Instead, I gained 7lbs. I bawled. I stood on the scale sobbing.

When I was getting as large as I got I never went on the scale unless it was a docs appointment. I was in super denial and didn't want to know the number, really. Then once I got to 295 I freaked out and didn't want to become 300lbs (and started looking into WLS). For some reason that was my breaking point but then I fluctuated from 265-295 over 2 years of weigh****chers and other diet efforts. As soon as I first saw the 295 at the doctors office about 3 years ago I bought a scale and I started weighing once a week every Saturday. I weighed weekly from when I saw 295 until about 1 month before surgery. I then started the BAD habit of weighing every morning and have since been weighing daily. I weigh every morning after I do my "business" lol.

I know for a fact that not weighing myself for so long before totally contributed to my gain because I was in denial and almost didnt want to know.. you know.. ignorance is bliss. I knew I was big and gaining but never wanted to see the number. When I get to my goal I plan to change to once a week again (I hope, I am kind of obsessive over it) to make sure I am on top of my weight. My thought is that once I get to goal, if I gain 5lbs that is a lot easier to work on than if I don't weigh myself and I gain 30lbs.