Ditch the Scales?!

Traveler120

PinkPixiexox wrote: »

My question is, once I start weighing again - how often do I weigh? Is once a month sufficient? The majority of people I have spoken to on here weigh daily or even 3 times daily.

Once a month is ok if it doesn't bother you when you realize your previous month's efforts were the wrong ones, and then it takes you another month to fix those mistakes. If you weighed daily or weekly or several times a week, you'd be able to see what's going on and fix problems right away or compensate within a week. And if things are going well, at least you'd be able to feel good about them instead of waiting a whole month.

I weigh several times a week. I also check measurements with a tape several times a week. I don't weigh the week before and during my period.

daniwilford

Since I am post menopausal and on a limited sodium diet for medical reasons, my weight has fewer variables than most. Still my weight varies from day to day. I have watched my weight trend down for six months now and I am not bothered by daily weights. I like the data, to see the patterns, after my weight hits a weekly low, I will gain a bit daily until my rest day, then it will begin to go down again until I reach a new low. This pattern holds when I am consistently exercising and eating at a deficit. If I weighed once a week or once a month there would be a downward trend. So if you only want to see the trend then weigh less often, if you want to discover patterns weigh more often.