How often should i weigh?

cdcruizer05 · February 2015

I'm curious, as i'm probably weighing myself too much. I currently weigh every morning, mainly out of curiosity. Sometimes this can be discouraging, as i get too fixated on the number.

Hornsby · February 2015

Personal preference. If you can't handle the fluctuations, I would go to weekly if I were you.

jessietrumble · February 2015

I think weighing daily can be very discouraging. I believe to be truly successful in a weight loss journey you have to be fixated on goals not numbers on the scales. I have been on this journey too many times. Every other time I have always been fixated on the scale and the my discouragement was always high. This time I am setting monthly goals of 8 pounds hoping to average 2 pounds a week. I have found this much more encouraging. I am at week 7 and am down 19 pounds. There was a week and a half where I hovered at the same weight. I have felt much more successful not worrying about the scale.

cdcruizer05 · February 2015

Yeah, i'm gonna really try hard. It will probably be more rewarding to weigh at least once a week or month. I started out saying i would weigh from the 15th to the 15th, but that didn't last long. lol!

KHaverstick · February 2015

It's definitely personal preference. Some people like to weigh once a week, some once a day. I'm somewhere in between. I don't actually remember to weigh daily, but I like to weigh daily. I use a separate app to track weight, and I log my weight every time I weigh. It shows a linear trend, and I actually like more data points. I know that it's going to fluctuate, so the pound or two up or down doesn't phase me. What I like to see is the trend over, say, a month. If it's going down, I'm happy. I think once a week can be discouraging (personally), because I might happen to weigh on one of those "up" days, and then miss seeing that the next day I'm back down. So for me, I'd rather either weigh daily or just monthly. If the daily fluctuations get you down, weighing daily may not be for you.