Does your doctor talk to you about your weight?

I had one who harped on my weight (I eventually left her because telling someone with visible abs to lose weight is ridiculous), but most never say anything. You can tell them you don't want to be weighed. They actually don't need to know your weight unless you are going to be having surgery because they have to know it for anesthesia purposes.

My doctor and I only started talking about it the last two visits -- because I was losing weight

My doctor never discussed my weight until I lost 20 pounds. I hadn't really been overweight, I was just at the top of the healthy weight range for my height. Once I lost weight, she started talking to me about the need to do strength training because apparently being slender and older at the same time can be bad for your bones if you're not strength training. That was the first time since high school a doctor even mentioned my weight (and in high school and below they were just telling me I was underweight.)

I've had great doctors. The doctor that referred me to the bariatric program was an uber-geek and correctly reminded me that my weight was a primary factor in my health conditions. It was true, but hard to hear. Other people in town were deeply offended by his frank approach.

When I moved back to the city, my doctor here has been very pleased with my transformation and told me I looked "perky" now. She asked me a lot of questions about what the experience has been like.

Family doctors are damned if they speak up, and damned if they don't. They don't get a whole lot of training on nutrition. My small town doctor was convinced I was consuming too many sugary drinks. Sorry, doc, my weight gain was not that simple (1/2 glass orange juice daily).

My doctors always tell me to lose weight but none ever gave me good guidance on how to go about it. A couple suggested basically fad diets that didn't end up working for me, like Atkins.

One sent me to a nutritionist who had me log my food for a week, told me I needed to lose 40lbs, and gave the advice that I wasn't eating enough calories and whole grains. She didn't address the fact that logic dictates that I was either a freak of nature, or my logging was woefully bad... It was my logging, obviously, and I needed to eat LESS calories.

All the time. Honestly, I think she's kind of obsessive about weight and body fat.

Mine takes my weight and notes it, but she doesn't really say anything other than that. Which is a good thing in my case, because I tend to be quite defensive and if she urged me to lose weight I probably would've done the exact opposite, and resented her on top of that.

Mine does but only because she has seen my weight go up so much over the years. She frames it in a way that's not offending, but more like, if you don't stop gaining weight you're going to have these health problems. I'm also pre-diabetic. I think if you're otherwise healthy, they don't need to discuss it, but when you start having issues due to being over or under weight, they have a responsibility to bring it up.

My doc knows it's important to me so we always talk about it and she always praises my for my losses.

I had lost 120# in the years time and that's all the doctor and her nurse talked about. Best yearly checkup ever!!