Girls recovering from EDs... how often do you weigh?

I have finally decided to try to gain some weight back after dealing with anorexia for about a year and getting down to a really unhealthy BMI.  Though my attitude yo-yo's back and forth each day from "I can do this, I'm getting healthy, I rock" to "OMG, I'm a fat pig, I'm letting myself down", overall I am proud of myself and I think it's going well.  I've been sticking to it for about 2 weeks, not looking back, and I've already gained a bit.  My question for you is, how often do you step on the scales?  While I was "maintaining" (actually losing) I would weigh myself every morning.  Now, with all the extra food and sodium I've been eating, I KNOW the number on the scale is going to be whacko, and I don't want to trigger myself by freaking myself out.  Yet I do want some gauge of my progress, so I know that my weight gain isn't progressing too fast or too slow.  I just wanted some opinions of how you all deal with this.  Thanks, and I also just want to say that though I haven't posted much here in the past, I always read these threads and am totally inspired and awed by some of you girls telling your EDs to shove it and getting healthy.   I always think of you when those destructive thoughts come creeping back in.  We can all do this together!

It kindda depends on how much I eat and how guilty/bloated/fat I feel. If I had it where I live I'm sure I'd do it at least twice /day - and I know it is stupid but still. I have to go to my parents' house or to my app to do it (I curently live with my bf), but either of the 2 places is far. I sometimes get up at 8 in the morning and grab a coat while dashing through the door and run to my parents' house - guess what for. I sometimes stop myself from drinking for hours in the morning as I know I have to go see mom and dad and get on the scale while i'm at it. It's very sick and I know it - I just can't get it out of my head. And to let you in on a little secret - 2 out of 3 times I check my weight and expect to see more I see LESS and the other time I see the exact same weight as before. When I least expect it and weight checking isn't in my plans I see more - and i binge after that almost every time. SO my advice is: do it every morning when you get up (after going to the toilet of course - at least to get some liquid out) if it is absolutely necesary and obsessive but stay away for the rest of the day. Or pick 2 3 days in the week and do it in the morning of those only 2 3 days schedueled and stick to that - don't let the scale take over control of your life, it's stupid and as far as i see it is just as sick as what we do with obsessing over food.

from a former bulimic still delaing with weight related issues

oh and another thing: for me the scale turns into a crisis solver : when i'm about to lose it - as i so many times think i gain - and i see the no is decent it's such a relief and my life from my point of view is ok and on the right track again. so for me scale can be an honest friend to - but it needs to be there when i want it to and "tell" me what i want to hear.

When I first started, I needed to gain a lot of weight just to get into the 'underweight' percentile and out of 'anorexia' percentile - about 20 lbs. I weighed myself at first every other day for the first week. When I saw my first two pounds, I really freaked.

So from then on, I didn't want to even see the scale. Personally, knowing I had a long way to go, I knew I'd save myself a lot more stress. If I were you, I would weigh myself every other day until you see your real first weight gain (2 or 3 lbs) and see how you handle it. If you feel happy about the gain, you may want to keep track of your gain by weighing every week or so. If you see the gain and freak, I recommend not weighing yourself.

Throw your scale out the window. Smash it with a sledgehammer. Destroy it. Otherwise it will simply sit there and call for you. Once you weigh yourself and see you have gained your ED may well go ballistic.

Weigh yourself once week, at the same time, with someone else's scale.

dont weigh yourself. or at least do not look at the weight...you do not need to obsess over this, because the body naturally fluctuates and even with weight gains sometimes you won't even notice, so why find out and risk getting triggered or upset?
with me- my dietician and my doctors weigh me (i get weighed twice a week) but i only get told whether i am under the weight range i need to stay in to be at school or if i am "okay." thats all i need to know.

I never weigh myself.

My doctor weighs me when I see him. Knowing my weight is a trigger for me.

never - once i weight myself i devise immediate plans to lower the number. i don't think you need to know your weight really..

i let my doctor weigh me, and not tell me the number. my clothes still fit, so i know my weight is not significantly changing and that is good enough for me.

my mom insists on seeing the dreaded number every thursday around 5 or 6pm. i do it a couple times other than that, just to see where im at. i've considered myself in "recovery" since octoberish, and my lowest was a couple weeks ago at 95. so its not working for me.

i dunno whats best - to weigh or not to weigh. i do it solely for my mom. and thats why i think its not working. because she wants me to recover, but for some reason i dont. i cant recover if i dont want to. im wondering if maybe eliminating the scale from now on would help.

Original Post by picklepug31:

my mom insists on seeing the dreaded number every thursday around 5 or 6pm. i do it a couple times other than that, just to see where im at. i've considered myself in "recovery" since octoberish, and my lowest was a couple weeks ago at 95. so its not working for me.

i dunno whats best - to weigh or not to weigh. i do it solely for my mom. and thats why i think its not working. because she wants me to recover, but for some reason i dont. i cant recover if i dont want to. im wondering if maybe eliminating the scale from now on would help.

 When I started seeing my GP, I was supposed to be getting better. However I was constantly weighing myself and it was seeing that number that kept triggering me. I didn't want to get better because I wanted to see that number getting lower.  Weight loss for me wasn't about how I looked, it was about numbers and sizes...which is why I stay away from the scale now. >_<

I only get weighed at my dietitian's. My appointments are usually 2-5 weeks apart, which is often enough for me. I used to weigh myself about 10 times a day when I was at my worst. I still can't resist stepping on the scales if I'm in somebody else's house though, bad habit.

Joanne, are you me? That is EXACTLY what I did, and when I've tried to tell people that, I know they think I'm a little odd.

I'm competitive, and seeing the number just set up that cycle of knowing I could (and would) weigh less next time.

No scale in my house!

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Joanne, are you me? That is EXACTLY what I did, and when I've tried to tell people that, I know they think I'm a little odd.

I'm competitive, and seeing the number just set up that cycle of knowing I could (and would) weigh less next time.

No scale in my house!

 I started getting really grossed out by how I looked, lol, but I just wanted the number to keep shrinking. Eating disorders are definatly unique in the people they are expressed in...

There is a scale in my house, but I just don't let myself step on it. I'm glad I can say no to it...and I refuse to get on any other scales if i"m like at a party and everyone decideds it'll be a fun thing to do to weigh themselves *rollseyes* 

I weigh myself rarely.  There is no scale where I'm currently living, and I never get to the gym where there is one.  Occasionally I will weigh when I go home, which may be every few months, but that scale isn't accurate.  I just like to check in every so often to make sure I'm not losing any weight, but if you end up obsessing about checking the scale quite often, and worrying about gaining, I suggest you lay of weighing for a while.