Hate the Scale @ Dr. Office!!!
awolf2011
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I'm 27 weeks, 5 days today and I've gained about 25 lbs so far this pregnancy. I weigh myself every couple of days using the same scale that I have been using for well over 1 year now. My weight this morning was 182 which it has been fluctuating around 180-185 for the past couple of weeks, so I'm pumped for that. But.....I went in for a regular appt today and the scale said 189!!! WTF!!! I've always had issues with the scales at the Drs office, but today put me over the edge. I haven't been exercising like I wanted too this pregnancy, but I've been trying to be conscious of what I eat everyday. I just found it annoying.....:sad: :mad:
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My nurse and I decided to just say + (whatever) at each check up. The number on the scale has differed, but the amount gained has remained within a pound or two each check up. It just stresses me out less this way!! I am, admittedly, terrified for the day I have an exam in a different room, with a different scale. I'll probably freak if it's significantly different!!0
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Yup. Know the feeling. During my previous pregnancy the scale at my doctors used to weigh light by nearly five pounds. However they've got new ones this time round which I suspect are deadly accurate and always add an extra three or four pounds from my morning weigh in (either that or my breakfast and clothes are heavier than expected).0
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I weigh myself every morning and I tell my midwife the amount I weighed that morning, not what the scale in her office bathroom says. Nobody watches me weigh myself so I give the number I think is most accurate, my morning weight.0
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I know this feeling! My first OB's scale was the same as mine but when I switched OBs I got scale-shock because there's was 6lbs higher, lol! Eep!0
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I've learned to not pay much attention to it. My last pregnancy I would get major anxiety & sick feeling. But after thinking, even when I weighed 120 or so the scale there always said more than home, naked, first thing in the morning. This week I have to get weighed twice and am actually looking forward to it. It will say more than home but not much if anymore than my last visit. :-)0
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I ignore the doctor's scale. I don't even ask him what I weighed. I weigh myself once a week, same day of the week, first thing in the morning, after the bathroom and before eating, naked. It doesn't seem at all relevant to compare that to a totally different scale, mid-afternoon, after I've been eating, and fully dressed. The two just don't compare, and there are too many variables to even concern myself with the latter.
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I cried last month when they told me it was time to weight in. I asked "do I have to?" through tears. Seriously, how old am I, 5?0
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I cried last month when they told me it was time to weight in. I asked "do I have to?" through tears. Seriously, how old am I, 5?
I was the same way w my 2yo. I honestly think that my stress over my weight played a major part in my "morning sickness" that lasted until 38 weeks. I would stand on the scale backwards, my heart would race, I'd feel sick. I couldn't eat & had a super hard pregnancy. I'm very thankful to be doing much better this time, even if I am heavier.0 -
No kidding. Plus you always end up getting weighed with all your clothes & shoes on, plus whatever you ate throughout the day. I weight about 7 pounds MORE in the doctor's office, which is kind of a lot (right now 170 on my home scale, 177 on the doctor scale).
I'm going to go with my scale at home otherwise I'm comparing apples to oranges (my weight at beginning was 147 in the morning, no clothes, no food so it doesn't seem right to compare that with me mid-afternoon, constipated -TMI-, full clothes & shoes, with two meals in me). Just sayin'.0 -
I think my Dr.'s scale is rigged, OR my scale is just evil because I am usually only off by a pound or so at the Dr.'s office. Actually, I am loving the Dr's "weight" for me at the moment..she is tracking my weight by what I weighed at 8 weeks and I go by what I weighed at 4 weeks (which means I am up an extra 3 lbs by my tracking..ick).
Either way scales suck! Before becoming pregnant with #2, I never weighed, just measured. I literally weighed 10 lbs more than my "skinniest" weight and was in two sizes smaller.0 -
Yesterday was my doctor appointment, and I was curious because of this thread, so I weighed myself yesterday morning and then glanced at the scale when they weighed me at the doctor. The difference was FOUR POUNDS! And that was even without having eaten anything, because I was fasting and went in first thing for my glucose test. This morning was my usual weigh-in day, and it was only a tenth of a pound more than yesterday.
That just confirms for me that it makes no sense to compare my at-home weight with my weight at the doctor's office. No way I gained and then lost four actual pounds in under 24 hours. The difference had to be my clothes, shoes, and a differently calibrated scale.0 -
I am 5lbs more at the office than at home, but I expect that, for all the reasons others mentioned, plus I wait to use the bathroom in case they need a urine sample, so I've got a nice full bladder, too. I am not stressed about it. I was 240 when I delivered with them 2 yrs ago, so I am getting a lot of positive feedback from my midwives right now and I feel great, whether my chart says 159 or 164
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OK OK, so after my first weigh in I did find myself debating on whether to make an early appointment and skip breakfast. But then I realized how cranky I would be...0
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I agree! I hated it too, but I hated it because I was losing too much =(0
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Today was my 12week apt and I gained 3lbs from my 8week appt. At the first I had gained 6! 9lbs in the first trimester - not the worst but certainly NOT what I had imagined. At least I'm feeling better now and feel like I can eat most foods and workout. Hoping now to only gain 10-15lbs.
I hate being stressed out about the scale - bah.0 -
My exact experience yesterday. I weighed myself yesterday in my usual manner (in the AM, before food, no clothes). At the doctor's office later that day I was 8 pounds heavier. Ugh. I probably shouldn't eat a Chipotle burrito on the days of my OB appointments, lol.0
