I would do the Petco or PetSmart scale. No one is ever near them anyways (we use it all the time for our dog)

Anonymous wrote:FGS, buy a $15 scale and put it in a brown bag in your garage, behind your Christmas decorations. Weigh yourself when you take out the garbage and shove the brown bag back behind the plastic tote. Stop embarrassing yourself at PetSmart.

Or any drawer. Ours is really thin and could easily be put in a dresser or under something. It’s similar to this. $14. https://www.amazon.com/Bathroom-Accurate-Weighing-Batteries-Physician/dp/B0CHRSYP3D/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?crid=3OY5JHK04OPSX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.piZ5rGhQBsCwXxgHb3FzYV5lmnUnT41zVvqZ_jHf2JaTooagQm7P1aQQeTEqjhVkA5mQBxkZa8AKQTwk3j2IHHMnFgGpyk87i_N_pT3bUJnozsIm1tmyTZGC5TlH8todaYJ4L3NglWYhhggvpPizM4CftXFyjmVpU68-tODiDZOfXysuROCuIHWFccLXVXtOWI0fN0BYpJ1QeUO7AikeNw.lgy2bPWeHfikfJ6il62XsgEoZ5qN86kAck4fAlGwEoU&dib_tag=se&keywords=scale&qid=1781955930&sprefix=scale%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-8

Is the drug for a mental health issue?

FGS, buy a $15 scale and put it in a brown bag in your garage, behind your Christmas decorations. Weigh yourself when you take out the garbage and shove the brown bag back behind the plastic tote. Stop embarrassing yourself at PetSmart.

My local drugstore has a station for weight, blood pressure and pulse. Pretty sure it is free, and I know some elderly people who regularly check their weight and numbers every time they go to the drugstore.

I would get a scale and then push it under your closet clothes. Pull it out when you need to use it.

FWIW I think weighting yourself daily is healthy. It tells me so much- whether I'm bloated, whether I need to cut back on calories, etc. It's just like balancing your checkbook.

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Anonymous wrote:The med is not a glp, and I am concerned about unintended weight loss not weight gain. I have been losing unintentionally for a while and one of the ways I will know I am doing better is if the med stops the weight loss. When I go to the doctor next time in a month I want to know whether I have continued to lose weight on the drug so weighing myself right before it starts makes sense. I do not mind getting on the petsmart ot post office scale.

Seriously? You can go to the dr next month for a weigh in but can’t get weighed there now? Can’t buy a scale and hide it. It’s a better solution to weigh yourself by sneaking on to a scale while pretending to be interested in joining a gym, or a postal or animal scale? You don’t want a real solution…you want things your way. Just odd to be so resistant to the easiest solution.

But if you really want to make it hard, buy one, weigh yourself before the medication starts and return it.

I can take off work, and pay for an uber for a two hour round trip (can’t drive right now due to the condition which is impacting my vision) for a specialist visit for a potentially life threatening condition, and yet not want to do so for something that could be done locally.

Petsmart had no issues with me climbing on the scale btw. It seems wasteful to pay for an item and then return, which often results in the item in a landfill.

I really don’t understand why my choice is making you so angry.

If I were working there, I wouldn't mess with a crazed woman climbing on an animal scale either.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you belong to a gym?

No, I live in an apartment building with a decent fitness center so I just use that. But it doesn’t have a scale.

Buy one and put it in the gym

+1

I did this when we were in an apartment temporarily. I had just lost weight and wanted to make sure I didn’t gain it back during that time, but I also didn’t want my daughters to think I was obsessing over my weight. So I bought one and put it in the bathroom of the fitness center at our apartment complex. I’m sure management was like, “where the **** did that come from?” But it stayed the whole time we were there. Lol

Yes, other people will appreciate it. You could also ask management to buy one for the gym.

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Anonymous wrote:The med is not a glp, and I am concerned about unintended weight loss not weight gain. I have been losing unintentionally for a while and one of the ways I will know I am doing better is if the med stops the weight loss. When I go to the doctor next time in a month I want to know whether I have continued to lose weight on the drug so weighing myself right before it starts makes sense. I do not mind getting on the petsmart ot post office scale.

Seriously? You can go to the dr next month for a weigh in but can’t get weighed there now? Can’t buy a scale and hide it. It’s a better solution to weigh yourself by sneaking on to a scale while pretending to be interested in joining a gym, or a postal or animal scale? You don’t want a real solution…you want things your way. Just odd to be so resistant to the easiest solution.

But if you really want to make it hard, buy one, weigh yourself before the medication starts and return it.

I can take off work, and pay for an uber for a two hour round trip (can’t drive right now due to the condition which is impacting my vision) for a specialist visit for a potentially life threatening condition, and yet not want to do so for something that could be done locally.

Petsmart had no issues with me climbing on the scale btw. It seems wasteful to pay for an item and then return, which often results in the item in a landfill.

I really don’t understand why my choice is making you so angry.

My guess is you have a non-specialist that is fairly close - rather than the two hours away specialist. But it is all part of the whole rejecting all ideas that are reasonable schtick, so that's why you have to add the long commute to a specialist's scale. Also why you mention the "life threatening condition" yet you're able to work (which is great) meaning, you're functioning. Just like you can say in your last post that you don't want to go to your specialist's scale when it could be done locally (aka your house - which you reject).

Who on earth says no scale in my house, I'll go to Petsmart to weigh myself but can't drive there so I need to uber there...and this is less wasteful than buying an item and returning it?

Anonymous wrote: I don’t have a scale in my house. It works for me, and I think getting one would be a negative for one of my kids who can be very obsessive about health.

But I am about to start a medication that can impact weight, and I would like to know how much I weigh before I start so I can get a sense of any change.

Any suggestions on where I can weigh myself? I thought about going to Petsmart and getting on the dog scale. There must be a less embarrassing solution. Do gyms have them? Could I sign up for a one day trial and try out the facilities and weigh myself?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you belong to a gym?

No, I live in an apartment building with a decent fitness center so I just use that. But it doesn’t have a scale.

Buy one and put it in the gym

+1

I did this when we were in an apartment temporarily. I had just lost weight and wanted to make sure I didn’t gain it back during that time, but I also didn’t want my daughters to think I was obsessing over my weight. So I bought one and put it in the bathroom of the fitness center at our apartment complex. I’m sure management was like, “where the **** did that come from?” But it stayed the whole time we were there. Lol