Does anyone else secretly weigh their food?

No, DH knows about me being on MFP and weighing my food. I do put the scale away when other people come over.

Hehe, no, but then my family is supportive. I know the feeling of having to hide things from disapproving family members.

Nope. Secretive behaviors and disordered eating go hand in hand. I am 100% out of the closet.

at first i kept it a secret or would not weigh stuff if people were in the room because of food anxiety but that was related to my disordered eating habits and i worried about people judging me/what i ate. but now i do it and nobody says anything. it's so much easier to cook & do recipes being able to measure out exact portions and not messy up so many measuring cups.

I not only openly weigh everything, at the table, every meal, but have been successful to the point that I now have 3 other family members doing it as well. They haven't quite joined me at weighing food out at restaurants, but that's their loss. It's my body, my "diet", my success story. Screw the judgement of anyone else, especially strangers.

I'll get little comments like "You're weighing your cookies?" and sarcastic "How much can you eat?". As long as they aren't asking for some of my food, they can say whatever they want.

I have that same urge to hide it. I'm a little bit weird about talking about my weight and weight loss at any rate. As though somehow not talking about it means that people don't see that I am fat or that I've lost a ton of weight. When I actually think about it, weighing is something to be proud of because it means we are taking our health seriously, going about changes intelligently and with dedication.

Nope. Everyone who knows me, knows that I'm very accurate with my food intake. And that goes for cutting or bulking phases so just because you are weighing food doesn't necessarily mean you are trying to lose weight.

I don't weigh my food at work (I prelog if having anything, and it can be a bit tiring fielding comments on loss/habits), and am open about weighing everything at home and at my parents' place. My dad lost a good amount of weight measuring for accuracy, so it's nice to have a scale there when we visit.

I weigh everything right out in the open. I even took my scale on a recent getaway to a cabin in the woods. No one cares.

I weigh discreetly in my house. I try not to let my almost 4 year old daughter see me doing it because I want her relationship with food to be much more healthy and intuitive than mine ever was.

That and my husband thinks it's bananas and pokes fun. He's fond of saying that Walter White was less precise with his wares than I am with my almonds.

Out in the open. I use it on all recipes and for non recipe stuff (like a side of peas or rice) it sits next to my plate at the table.

OP, don't put up with the ridicule. Call them out on it. You can say "Your comments are unwelcome. Commenting on someone else's weight is rude." Or, if you're the cook and treat buyer. "You're welcome to eat dinner at another time if you have nothing nice to say." "Since having treats is perpetrating nasty passive agressive behavior, we will no longer have them in this house."

If it's your spouse, talk in private. Be honest about your need and desire for support. A loving spouse will be willing to listen to your point of view and change their behavior.

No one gets a free pass to treat someone else with disrespect, especially in your own home. If it happens at some other family member's home, call them on it and leave.

If you NEED to give them an excuse you can say, "I'm following my doctor's advice. If you have nothing nice to say/desire to support me/care for my health (whatever), then please keep it to yourself."

crys_todd wrote: »

I weigh discreetly in my house. I try not to let my almost 4 year old daughter see me doing it because I want her relationship with food to be much more healthy and intuitive than mine ever was.

That and my husband thinks it's bananas and pokes fun. He's fond of saying that Walter White was less precise with his wares than I am with my almonds.

I'm getting my digital scale on Friday. My husband is on board and will absolutely support anything I do. I would never hide it from him.

I have 4 kids and I am very afraid to do anything that might change their relationship with food, too. I grew up with an eating disorder that was brought on by my mom's extreme body hatred and disordered eating. I will do my measuring away from my daughter. I never, ever body shame or say anything negative about weight because I know how it can be when your mother is crazy.

I'm down 32 pounds and I've never mentioned the word diet or even weight loss. When they notice, I'll explain that I'm making better choices.

I'm sorry that your husband is being a jerk.

I wish I could leave my scale on the counter but it ends up getting wet every time I do.