Weigh-ins can sometimes lead to avoiding health checkups altogether. Here's how to ask your provider to skip the scale.

And weight-neutral providers say that even in a world with these new drugs, people with larger bodies still need to feel heard and respected in the doctor's office and have their primary health ...

She has also dealt with doctors in the past ... absolutely need to report their weight." Another issue Maughan and other patients have is that the office scale is often located in a busy hallway ...

And weight-neutral providers say even in a world with these new drugs, people with larger bodies still need to feel heard and respected in the doctor's office and have their primary health ...

A nurse wheeled a scale into her classroom ... loss without really looking at the whole picture,” she says. Doctor’s office weight stigma could even spark or retrigger eating disorders ...

but she doesn’t want to know the number when she’s weighed at the doctor’s office. In fact, she turns her back to the scale and is not interested in discussing her weight or obesity prevention.

Write this question out on a notecard to treat like an actual script when you are in the doctor’s office ... want to bypass the scale at medical appointments where your weight is not medically ...

Most doctor’s office visits include a routine step onto the scale, a small moment that can be stressful for many people. A recent study by an interdisciplinary team from MU and other ...