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doctorsookie

I was curious how often you weigh in. I weigh myself every Wednesday and Saturday Morning. I do this because I feel it keeps me on track. I feel I will mess up if I go a whole week and don't keep track of it. I want to go back to avoiding the scale but it lets me see if I did something wrong since the last weight in to cause any gains I may see, but I also feel I do it too often and little gains can be discouraging even though they might just be a bit of water retention. Any tips you can offer will be appreciated.

orangeyellowkayak

I weigh once a week on thursdays. I use the scale at work so I am dressed with work shoes on. The scale at work does not change mine at home gets different reading every time I step on it. I have stepped on the scale 2 or 3 times on a monday or tuesday to take a peek but except for last week i took my reading for here on thursday. When I looked once earlier i knew that i would have to exercise more if i wanted my weight to be down on thursday so i did and it did go down.
I only use the whole lb weight just because it is easier for me. It is hard tho with the once a week when there is no weight loss to wait another week to see it go down. so far it has always gone down the second week. But then I work harder to make sure it goes down.

jacey12300

I have no set pattern for weighing, well not yet anyways! At the moment I weigh roughly every 3 weeks as i prefer to see a bigger loss, every time i weigh i'm averaging a 5.6lb loss I'd say do whatever you feel most comfortable with

leebesstoad

When I was going towards my first goal weight, I would weigh in once a week with my trainer at my gym on Saturday mornings in my gym clothes, without shoes. Same day of the week, same time of the day, same conditions every time. I weighed myself at home just before going to see what the weight difference between my home scales and the gym scales were so I would know.

I would weigh myself at home every morning, but more for entertainment purposes only and would never freak out over it. I would guess what that morning's weight would be. I got to be a pretty good guesser. If you can not freak out over every little fluctuation, weighing more often isn't bad. Most people can't. They think that a little bump in weight means they've done something wrong, when it means nothing of the sort.

You want an illustration of how water can affect your weight? One day after a long day at work and an even harder day at the gym, I was going to treat myself to a nice long soak in the jacuzzi in the bathroom. Just for giggles, I weighed myself, buck nekkid, before stepping into the tub. 169. I soaked for about 20-25 minutes. Didn't eat anything, didn't drink anything. I got out of the tub, dried off completely and thoroughly and stepped on the scales again. 172. My skin had absorbed 3 pounds of water just soaking in the tub. You don't even have to drink it for your body to gain water weight, so please, don't freak over small weight changes. It doesn't mean you've done something wrong, you've eaten wrong, you've trained wrong. Your body just may be retaining a bit of water.

doctorsookie

@leebesstoad...that is crazy and it does make me feel better. Thanks everyone. Before starting back on my endeavors to a smaller me I hadn't gotten on the scale for a year except when I went to the doctor which unfortunately was too often but she is the one that first saw the serious increase in a nine month period. I hope to at least be back to that weight the next time I see her. I aim to only get on the scale once a month by July. Baby steps.

broscientist

I weigh myself every day.
You have to understand the whole "fluctuation of weight" and not freak over it when you gain few pounds from the day before.


IMO, people who only weight themselves once a week because they are afraid of the weight fluctuation has an unhealthy relation with their scale. You shouldn't try to "hide" from something that is completely normal. Instead you should learn to understand it.