Question about weight?

Are you saying you weigh am and then pm and expect the scale to be the same or down? That only works during the rapid weight loss phase. Did that trick you into thinking that was the way it is normally? I find I weight massively different over the course of the day depending on liquid consumption, what I eat, if I went to the bathroom..... I also find that I tend to be lower over the weekend then vs. the week. Why? I figured out that I'm usually running around all weekend and drink much less then if I'm at my desk surrounded with my tea and water bottles. This isn't magic - weigh less often, consistently at the same time and under relatively the same conditions. I weigh on Wednesday and Sunday PERIOD and always right after I get up and after the washroom, before I take my pills and drink anything. If I forget and miss a weigh-in - DONE. I don't get on the scale after I ate breakfast.... The scale doesn't rule my day. I know what I'm doing and almost always can guess my weight to within .5 pounds. If I'm way under or way over at only one weigh in - I know I might be constipated or any number of reasons. But if I'm up two weigh-ins, then action gets taken. Use the scale as a tool and not your master. Good luck.

I have no clue why I weigh so many times or what I was expecting! Craziness!

Thus far I've only gotten my weight during doctor's visits / follow up appointments. I'm glad of that because I don't want to become obsessed. My next appointment isn't until the middle of next month so today I finally dug out my digital bathroom scale. I'm going to see how once a week weighing goes for me.... if it gets crazy, I'm putting the scale back up. Something's going to work out... even if it's only monthly weigh-ins. It doesn't bother me to wait til my appointments for my weight updates as I can tell I'm losing pounds and inches just from the way my clothes are hanging off me. I'm excited for the future!

Congrats on your weight loss so far! That's awesome! Yeah, I've cut down to weighing only once every morning and it has helped! I no longer feel like I'm going crazy! Lol

I really can't tell that I've lost any weight. I mean I don't feel any different and my clothes still fit the same. The only reason I know I've lost weight is from the number on the scale and sometimes I still think to myself my scale must be broken because there is no way I've lost anything! But people at work have been commenting on how much weight I've lost and my family say they can tell I've lost weight so I guess it is noticeable. I just don't see it.

you know your body can fluctuate in water by 5-to even 10 lbs, the heavier you were the more you might retain. and obsessive weighing is not healthy, look how it worries you to see that 1 lb up! I was in a nutrition-food tracking group..saw middle age women eat one chicken leg, and weigh, then weigh 2 hrs later, it drove them nuts.

In a way it dishonors the good food you have in a nation with abundance. Weighing once a day first thing?...even that is too much for me.

I may weigh weekly (but I am not post WLS either)... do whatever you are advised in weighing, if daily helps you great...but otherwise you are wasting brain cells on worthless worry.

Our bodies are wise, they don't take well to major changes, so sticking to your food plan, give it time, and maybe walking more daily, or spending 20 minutes in meditation, to bring you more peace?

Good luck..you made it thru the surgery, now you have the gift of a tool that will serve you .

If my body was wise, I think it would have said ?this weight is not healthy? and stopped gaining and started losing long before I needed WLS. Maybe I got the remedial version!

*edited to add - I do understand what you are saying to the OP about staying the course, finding serenity, etc

Wisdom....why our bodies want to keep us fat. I'm reading a couple science/study books on brain/body behavior about what/why we eat.

To keep it short, (even with 12 paragraphs) the main premise is 100K years is STILL too little time from actual starvation and seeking of rich food sources AND understanding the over abundance of food- won't go away! always available. esp. fatty, salty and SWEET that drive a part of the hypothalamus to seek, constantly, the place they got that food last. Smells, images will also drive our brain to make us hungry and go get that FOOD! (And why Fast food ads show closeups of sizzling meaty cheesy/pefect buns/ and sugary shakes and desserts.

Our primitive brain still doesn't have a clue that junk food is ALWAYS available, no need to rush and gorge! But the deep guide to seek berries, or yams, etc are still there. Dopamine is the killer DRIVER, always reminding and triggering us..then Ghrelin helps, and a few other hormones.

The Hungry Brain, and "Tasty" both books on neuro- science that causes this unquenchable drive to seek those foods. AND keep us at the last HIGH weight we were, because that is SAFETY and survival for lean times. See the problem?

The 'secret' is DULL plain, unsalted, boring looking mush or similar food. Tests show people naturally ate less, when it was the only food available. And other science is finding the (lots of studies posted) 'eat sugar' drive is less with concentrated spinich components in capsules (so of course hucksters are selling this for $59. a bottle of 60!) The study shows taken with a meal concentrated spinach (thykolines/? sp) DO reduce sweet/sugar/salt cravings for several hours.

So HANG ON..there are more 'aids' to help us fight the built in urge. NOT having any foods that appeal to you in the house is best.

For me- no processed of any kind, Macadamias, pistachios, etc. but slivered unsalted almonds?..no problem!... so instead of finding way to enhance my food appearance and taste to increase enjoyment, I am trying the opposite..simple plain food. so far that is working..when I buy protein bars, on deep discount..yep they get eaten first! ( a PLAIN boiled potato test, with no salt resulted in undereating calories, even with them as heavily 'carb loaded'. people ate less, felt full, because the brain was 'waiting' for the 'good stuff' to be found soon!

Looking forward to other "brain" oriented solutions, the 24/7 great tempting foods/smells, parties/events are NOT going away, the tool of WLS can't subvert eye/taste, so other options can help for the long term.

PS remember "leptin pills" - TV message was "It's not YOUR fault" while that was partially factual, only MICE did well on leptin to quench hunger, humans are far too complex, doesn't work, the company that bought ALL the science/cornered the leptin market--lost $20M when the pills didn't work. Fascinating stuff huh?

That sounds absolutely awful.

Head hunger is real and is probably the biggest battle of each day, but I'll take that fight and the control it requires over tasteless, joyless meals. That may change at some point, but today it's true.

All tools are wisdom. For centuries religious orders followed simple groats and plain bread and water diets, to achieve more inner peace, freeing the desires of feeding one's mouth for temporary pleasure. As long as society abhors the obese, and now blames them for overconsumption of resources, excess use of medical care, it will be so. Fighting requires energy. If it ever became easy to turn from modern foods this site would not be needed. I will explore the simple. And plain does not mean joyless.