Weighing in...in front of others

[AliBaby]

How does everyone feel about this?

Do you think that anyone has a right to see your weight?

Are you okay weighing in in front of strangers but not loved ones or vice verser or both or neither?

Just after others experiences, then I will comment on my own...

[foreva*your*mummy]

I think im ok with strangers but not my DP haha. I just joined a weightloss group and you all weigh in the same room but only the ladies taking the meeting can see the weight. I just think in my case everyone is there for the same reason and your weight is important to you I dont think I would care what someone elses weight is.
Hope you havent had bad expereiences.
HTH

[Pandora]

... you all weigh in the same room but only the ladies taking the meeting can see the weight. ...

This has always been my experience - WW, TOWN - only you and the weight recorder see your weight.

I didnt like the practice at our TOWN group where everyone had to state how much they had gained or lost though - kind of defeats the purpose of only the weight recorder seeing you weigh in.
Even worse was the practice where the person who had gained the most had to take a toy pig home for the week.
ETA: SNAP Tinks

Both of these were complained about and subsequently stopped.

[The[cookie]Doctor]

I would be humiliated. I think it is not on. Regardless of whether or not you are seeking help it is a personal thing and there are a string of emotions with that - sometimes these take seconds and other times hours to dissolve.

I hardly ever weigh in front of DF - i always tell him - but i need those moments to digest the results and how i feel about that, IYKWIM. I don't think it would matter whether or not I had 40kg to lose or 10kg to gain... so personal.

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

I think there should be room for both - if someone doesn't particularly care who sees their weight thats great, but there shouldn't be a fuss made if someone would prefer to do it on the quiet, KWIM?

This is just one of the MANY reasons I won't watch Biggest Loser - I hate that they are subjected to being filmed standing in crop tops and bikeshorts, with their weight flashed on a big screen, just in case they weren't humiliated enough. I know I know, they know what they're getting into, but I just don't think humiliating someone into losing weight is the right way to go about it...

*Whoops, OT, off my soapbox!*

[Jakabella]

I dont have a prob weighting in front of DH - Hell I walk around naked alot so he knows what I truely look like (and still loves me!!) so he weighes me sometimes or looks over my shoulder.

I used to go to weight watchers and the weighing lady would see my weight = then I worked as the weigher for a few yrs and would see everyones weight - I was cool with it all.

I dont know how I would go with a Biggest looser type weigh in at the start - but once it was out there I would be ok - infact I really think it might make me work harder - because if I put on weight its only me who sees it - but I would not want the public to see a gain so I would work harder.

HHmm maybe I should weigh in the middle of the street! LOL - then it might make me work harder than I am!!

Kate

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

I dont have a prob weighting in front of DH - Hell I walk around naked alot so he knows what I truely look like (and still loves me!!) so he weighes me sometimes or looks over my shoulder.

I don't mind walking around in the nudd, but letting DH see the number - HELL NO! I don't know what difference it makes though

[The[cookie]Doctor]

I don't mind walking around in the nudd, but letting DH see the number - HELL NO! I don't know what difference it makes though

:yeahthat:

[Kailani]

I've never been in such a situation, but I know I wouldn't like it. I think someone's weight is a personal thing and I don't like people asking how much I weigh or commenting on how I look/what they think I weigh, etc. It makes me feel very uncomfortable and I find it offensive. I have trouble maintaining a "healthy" weight and I often lose weight when I'm sick/stressed/busy. It irritates me how some people think it is okay to suggest I'm anorexic/lost too much weight/too thin/look sickly/etc but if I were to suggest they looked like they could lose a few pounds...wow now that would be rude!

[Nai]

I weigh in at the gym and I really don't like other people standing around seeing the number - especially men for some reason. I'm not so fussed about weight watchers meetings but the gym is a bit different. I don't let DP see my numbers but I do tell him.

The only one I don't worry about is DD1 as we weigh ourselves at the pool and I tell her the numbers - I don't want her to get a complex about weight or weighing herself so I have to be all normal and open about it.

[Trillian]

I don't tell Dh the number, but he knows what it is without me saying it anyway - he can correctly guess the weight of a lamb in a paddock to know which ones are right for selling, so I'm pretty sure he can work me out

back in the 80's when weight watchers first got popular my Aunty used to go to the meetings and it was real Marjorie Dawes stuff - everyone was weighed in front of everyone else and if you gained weight everyone would chant 'oink-piggy-piggy-piggy' !!! and it scared her ****less about going to WW anymore and when I started doing it as a leader she asked me if we still did that to people. I was mortified when she told me. We were told by our up-line leader that we weren't to read out weights at the meeting, but we could have a group discussion where people could share how much they had lost if they wanted to, but not their weight kwim? Some people are fine with it but for the majority it's private.