Wellness

[LoganPup]

Count me in, I do the exact same thing.  

As others have said it just puts me in a bad mood.

[twinny70]

sherrikay, this post made me laugh.  I had a 7:30 Dr. appt  this morning.  I weighed myself without any clothes on & after I piddled.  Then I showered.  I weighed 10# more on their scale than mine.  Then I told the Dr. that I was going to take my dh to the new donut shop in town for a cappuccino and a donut since I had to get him up at 6:30 to snow blow 5" of snow off the driveway.  He gave me permission to do it.  Yes  it was worth $11.45.  

Glenda

[Kachina624]

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@Sooner wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

Just tell them you prefer to not get weighed and keep walking.  They can't MAKE YOU get on the scale.

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@Kachina624 Do I need my "Don't you cross me!" face to go with this?    

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@Sooner    No, you need your confident "I know what I'm doing" face.  Its amazing how people let medicos intimidate them, especially older people.

[Effie54]

I don't step on the scale....I tell the nurse I weighed myself that morning and I weigh ___________ pounds. That's it. She takes the verbal. 

[sunsetbeach]

I'm the same, plus I have white coat syndrome, too.  My primary care doesn't have a scale anymore, they have a chair that transforms into a table that weighs you while you sit there.  I always say don't tell me and then they have a thing that automatically takes my blood pressure 3 times and averages it out, since I'm generally anxiety ridden in the medical office!  If I never had to go to another doctor's appt. it would be fine by me!

[Jasmine19]

I see my doctor every 3 months to get weighed! I've been overweight most of my adult life and finally got to a weight I can live with. I still gain easily so I made a plan with my doctor to come in periodically to get weighed. I'm amazed at how well it works! I weigh myself daily and It helps to have a doctors weigh in planned to keep me on track.

[ID2]

Absolutely not! I have recently lost 70 lbs and welcome the fact to jump on anyones scale! 

[Jo1313]

I usually tell the nurse.."fatter than I was last time"..and walk past the scale.

Just walking in that door makes my blood pressure go up.

[Vivian]

You can refuse to get on the scale. I've been doing that for the past few years. I tell the nurse that as a lifetime member of WW, I find that weigh-in is traumatic for me, that it's more important to get health care than to get weighed. I have never had anyone object because I can refuse any aspect of my care. My doctors don't seem to care or even notice that the info isn't there.

[Zhills]

My neighbor refuses to step on any scale!