Weight: the real measure or convenience?

May 30, 2017

So I've noticed most of the blogs and threads I've come across have focused on weight (loses, plateaus, gains and adjustments). If I looked hard enough I'm sure I'd find many other topics and someday, maybe I will look. For now I'm feeling rather like the odd (wo)man out.

I don't care what the scale says. I do not own one (technically I do, in a box somewhere in storage, needing batteries).

I know how horrible my life was at my highest weight (and long before then too). I know how much better I'm feeling now. I can see 'MY' face coming back to me in the mirror and I can feel differences in my body (especially my apron and tits).

I have energy and the desire to get out and do things (the 7-day post-op pain kicks in for a bit and with each day it is getting better). I'm longing to be allowed to get back into the pool to continue strengthening my arthritis support muscles so I'll be able to walk again.

I am able to stand long enough to do my dishes or do other little chores. All of these things are new and awesome.

Now I see the team tomorrow for my 1wk follow up and will gladly see what the scale has to say as a reinforcement of how I am feeling but it isn't the holy, all-telling 'truth' to my success.

Do we use our weight changes as a 'common language' of convenience? Am I being naive as the newbie to the scene? Is it really held in the highest place of 'esteem' as the 'one true' measure of success or failure in this world of bariatric surgery?

Now before you immediate answer 'well of course it isn't the end-all and be-all' think about how often you weigh yourself. What do you think or feel as you approach or step off the scale?

I approach the scale with a sense of curiosity and recently step off with a sense of awe and confirmation of what I already knew.

YET I was sorely disappointed when I had my consultation with the surgeon and was not weighed (5 wks b4 surgery). I was bordering on upset when I went into surgery without being given the opportunity to know my 'starting weight'. AND that night (might have been next morning) I asked the nurse to go looking for a scale with me so I could get 'some idea' of my starting point.

These are milestone moments in the journey I wanted to record... I could have done so with photos, essays, tape measurements, etc but I wanted to 'speak' the same language as everyone else.

Was I copying what I'd seen here (in your tickers)? Am I deluding myself of the value and/or importance of those three little numbers on the screen?

Time will tell I suppose.

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