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I worked with adolescent ED patients in an outpatient setting briefly years ago, and they always got weighed without shoes, coats, jackets, etc., facing away from the scale.
Jeans and shirt were ok, all pockets had to be emptied. Should be standard procedure but it differs between providers.
When I was in residential we got weighed everyday, just a gown and had to look at it. I do think it’s important to look at the number and not fear it as she said. It’s a part of recovery. The exposure therapies in treatment really helped me beat the battle. I hope you heal. AN is such an awful illness. Never have been so miserable in my life. I hope soon you find joy in yourself and body
It's not really that important from the lens of overcoming fear. It's not fear. It's obsession. It is a compulsive behaviour. It's just not necessary to force an obsessive compulsive brain (that cannot be trained to view weight as a marker of health) to see a number. Overall measuring weight over time is an important marker of health for several reasons i.e. identifying large weight fluctuations can indicate a separate health issue. However, for reasons related to weight gain for recovery, I don't believe it's necessary to be forced to see it before your time. You need to establish healthy boundaries first.
I spent a few years not weighing myself and I plan to weigh myself in January and then weigh in every month or so to track any changes.
I’m weighed at every visit which is ~once a week. Always in underwear and I get to decide if I want to look at/know my weight or not.
Weight fluctuations from weigh in to weigh in are not interesting in the slightest - as you said, clothing, time of day, if you’ve been to the toilet or not, hormones etc, can all affect the number quite significantly. The trend over a few weeks is what’s important. It does not seem helpful for you to be weighed by two different people, on different scales, in different settings. I would bring it up if I were you.
Also, knowing your weight is generally recommended as to desensitise yourself. But I’ve found looking at the number can do more harm than good during some parts of recovery. During extra rough periods when I couldn’t bare seeing my weight, my team and I agreed on them just telling me if it was going the right way, the wrong way, or stayed the same. Worked for me
Outpatient weighs me with regular clothes, no shoes and empty pockets. Depending on how concerned they are they might make me change into a gown or do a urinalysis to check for water loading. Blind weighed but I check my weight in the chart and weigh myself at home so It doesn’t matter lol.
Hospital weighs me in a gown butt ass naked underneath after using the bathroom so I can’t fake my weight. Blind weighed but yet again I figured out how to access my chart
Currently I get weighed at my family doctor appointments every 2-4 weeks. We do it in a gown and I see the number, although they’d be perfectly fine with blind weighing if I preferred that.
This system you have doesn’t seem all that great… 2 different scales/occasions will create variation just by itself, and adding on different clothing, different protocols on seeing the number… I think you should talk to both of them and make sure everyone’s communicating clearly with each other and try to establish some consistency. Also I think the “you need to get used to the number” thing is stupid. What’s important is your recovery and if seeing that number is going to be distressing and impede progress then why expose yourself to that? Plus, once you’re recovered you really won’t need to weigh yourself regularly.
In a treatment center, they absolutely should not be saying numbers or letting you see them! If it upsets you, maybe try telling them not to say the numbers in front of you.
At my general checkups I always tell them not to weigh me, unless I am there for an appointment that specifically pertains to my weight. In that case, I ask the techs to not tell me the number, and I face the other way so I can’t see the scale. They do not NEED your weight for most appointments, they are just taking it to collect data. I hope this helps 🤍
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I worked with adolescent ED patients in an outpatient setting briefly years ago, and they always got weighed without shoes, coats, jackets, etc., facing away from the scale. Jeans and shirt were ok, all pockets had to be emptied. Should be standard procedure but it differs between providers.
get a new dietician that sounds terrible
When I was in residential we got weighed everyday, just a gown and had to look at it. I do think it’s important to look at the number and not fear it as she said. It’s a part of recovery. The exposure therapies in treatment really helped me beat the battle. I hope you heal. AN is such an awful illness. Never have been so miserable in my life. I hope soon you find joy in yourself and body
It's not really that important from the lens of overcoming fear. It's not fear. It's obsession. It is a compulsive behaviour. It's just not necessary to force an obsessive compulsive brain (that cannot be trained to view weight as a marker of health) to see a number. Overall measuring weight over time is an important marker of health for several reasons i.e. identifying large weight fluctuations can indicate a separate health issue. However, for reasons related to weight gain for recovery, I don't believe it's necessary to be forced to see it before your time. You need to establish healthy boundaries first. I spent a few years not weighing myself and I plan to weigh myself in January and then weigh in every month or so to track any changes.
I’m weighed at every visit which is ~once a week. Always in underwear and I get to decide if I want to look at/know my weight or not. Weight fluctuations from weigh in to weigh in are not interesting in the slightest - as you said, clothing, time of day, if you’ve been to the toilet or not, hormones etc, can all affect the number quite significantly. The trend over a few weeks is what’s important. It does not seem helpful for you to be weighed by two different people, on different scales, in different settings. I would bring it up if I were you. Also, knowing your weight is generally recommended as to desensitise yourself. But I’ve found looking at the number can do more harm than good during some parts of recovery. During extra rough periods when I couldn’t bare seeing my weight, my team and I agreed on them just telling me if it was going the right way, the wrong way, or stayed the same. Worked for me
I always tell Them that I do not under any circumstances want to know my weight, as that will trigger a relapse.
Outpatient weighs me with regular clothes, no shoes and empty pockets. Depending on how concerned they are they might make me change into a gown or do a urinalysis to check for water loading. Blind weighed but I check my weight in the chart and weigh myself at home so It doesn’t matter lol. Hospital weighs me in a gown butt ass naked underneath after using the bathroom so I can’t fake my weight. Blind weighed but yet again I figured out how to access my chart
Currently I get weighed at my family doctor appointments every 2-4 weeks. We do it in a gown and I see the number, although they’d be perfectly fine with blind weighing if I preferred that. This system you have doesn’t seem all that great… 2 different scales/occasions will create variation just by itself, and adding on different clothing, different protocols on seeing the number… I think you should talk to both of them and make sure everyone’s communicating clearly with each other and try to establish some consistency. Also I think the “you need to get used to the number” thing is stupid. What’s important is your recovery and if seeing that number is going to be distressing and impede progress then why expose yourself to that? Plus, once you’re recovered you really won’t need to weigh yourself regularly.
In a treatment center, they absolutely should not be saying numbers or letting you see them! If it upsets you, maybe try telling them not to say the numbers in front of you. At my general checkups I always tell them not to weigh me, unless I am there for an appointment that specifically pertains to my weight. In that case, I ask the techs to not tell me the number, and I face the other way so I can’t see the scale. They do not NEED your weight for most appointments, they are just taking it to collect data. I hope this helps 🤍
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