To Scale or Not to Scale... that is my question

Thank you everyone for your comments!  It has given me a lot to think about and how I can adjust my "stinkin thinkin" about using the scale.  I do think it could be a valuable tool for me and a way to hold myself accountable.  I think my plan is to weigh on Wednesday's to track since that is when all of my Dr's appts have been.  I am also going to keep taking the monthly photos ( my friend Kass suggested to help me see progress.) I appreciate your feedback!  I feel more confident with taking the leap!

I haven't had my surgery but I have been weighing weekly. I hope to stay weighing and measuring once a week...

I never owned a scale, in fact I didn't want to face reality. One day I decided to get a scale bacause I now needed the biggest size in the store. I couldn't beleive it. I coyldn't even see it as I would avoid mirrors.

I was over with closing my eyes. Got a scale, weighed in at 360. Looked closely in the mirror. And went for surgery.

Needless to say I will never be without a scale and I look at myself everyday in the mirror while weighing in.

I did fet discouraged a bit at the beginning but 8 months later I can say I understand my body. And I can accept the gains when they happen.

I'm freshly post op and have a scale, but don;t weight daily.  Maybe twice a week.  Right now I know I am doing well, and I am tacking my food, started slowly walking on the treadmill.  I think in maintenance a daily weight-in is a MUST, but for me, right now, I don't want to get hung up on it.  I'm Sleeved and trusting that it will happen as a result of all my effort and hard work.

When I am home, I weigh every day. I am a stair stepper loser, so most mornings I don't get any news, but some mornings...! I weigh at the same time of the day (morning). When I come home from a trip, I have to wait until the following morning to weigh and usually it takes a couple of days for the water retention from traveling to work through. I don't obsess over it and I see the inches changing when I am not losing the actual poundage.

Do what's comfortable for you.

For the first year, I weighed in at the doc's office once a quarter.  Did I stall?  Don't know.  I was always down when I weighed in.  I figured the only thing I could control was whether I stayed on plan or not.  I've never been able to control the scale.  So, as long as I was on plan, I didn't worry about what the scale was doing. 

But everyone is different.  Some people do charts of their weight loss, some aren't affected by what the scale says, some are.  You need to decide whether the scale is a useful tool for you and how you want to use it.

I will be 5 months out in the 9th and have only stepped on the scale once per week. I don't care to see the fluctuations every day and get myself in a funk if I gained  3 ounces overnight. Do what works for you and not what somebody else says is the gospel.