How often to you weigh?

nxd10

I do it every morning BECAUSE of daily fluctuation. I know I'm going to bobble around. I stay in my range. If I weighed once a month, I'd worry about getting a particularly high or low day. Weighing every day, I know where I am and I don't think about it.

THenry8

I often weigh myself once every week at home, so I can prepare to change or keep plans if my goals aren't met!

20months

I weigh every morning.

kbmnurse

Never. I go by how my clothes fit.

davert123

Either never or everyday :-)

HeidiMightyRawr

Once a week properly, where I record it on here.

Sometimes I'll check in and have a look in days during that week (fluctuations don't really bother me) but I don't log it.

FitPhillygirl

nxd10 wrote: »

I do it every morning BECAUSE of daily fluctuation. I know I'm going to bobble around. I stay in my range. If I weighed once a month, I'd worry about getting a particularly high or low day. Weighing every day, I know where I am and I don't think about it.

I never thought of this as a reason to weigh in everyday, but it makes perfect sense.

reachingunder120

I used to weigh myself every four days. Not for any particular reason, just because that's when I started wondering how much I weighed. Now I'm starting to weigh myself just on Sundays

charmmeth

nxd10 wrote: »

I do it every morning BECAUSE of daily fluctuation. I know I'm going to bobble around. I stay in my range. If I weighed once a month, I'd worry about getting a particularly high or low day. Weighing every day, I know where I am and I don't think about it.

Same here. And sometimes if I don't get round to having breakfast for a while, I weigh again before breakfast. I find the way my weight changes fascinating, and keep a spreadsheet to keep track, even now I am maintaining (more-or-less - Christmas took its toll...).

PamOliva

Currently about once a week (in maintenance). During weight loss it was 4-5 times a week. I don't miss that near daily obsession but it helped with motivation and decision-making.

JoeCWV

Pretty much daily. It's a habit like brushing my teeth. I like to try and predict the fluctuations based on my previous day's eating. Yea, I'm weird like that. Been maintaining about 2 1/2 years.

JudyPov

Weekly. Wednesday is "Weigh Day".

KareninLux

Daily. Always.

KareninLux

kdhamner wrote: »

I weigh twice daily. Once in the morning and once before bed. I just like to see the fluctuations that I have throughout the day/week. I have lost nearly 100 lbs and do ok with the frequent weighing. I know some get frustrated if they weight too often, but I am ok with it. I have really gotten to know my body that way.

Hmmm... might have to try that.

tristen_leigh

I don't. Messes too much with my head. I measure inches instead.

d_thomas02

Daily, but I use a trending app, "True Weight" based on the book "Hacker's diet", to knock the water fluctuations out.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/

_benjammin

Daily, tracked in a spreadsheet with 7-day rolling averages. I only make calorie adjustments if the 7-day averages are going the wrong way after a few weeks.

kommodevaran

Daily, because of fluctuations; more data points for a more reliable (though confusing) picture; and it becomes something I just do, and not fear doing once a week (or never).

xKoalaBearx

kdhamner wrote: »

I weigh twice daily. Once in the morning and once before bed. I just like to see the fluctuations that I have throughout the day/week. I have lost nearly 100 lbs and do ok with the frequent weighing. I know some get frustrated if they weight too often, but I am ok with it. I have really gotten to know my body that way.

Me too. Twice daily. I've learned a lot about how food affects my daily weight.

Also I find that by weighing frequently each measurement is less important in terms of emotional impact.

bkstein40

I weigh myself daily, I only record my progress weekly on Monday's. Some will say throw away the scale, but in reading some info on weight maintenance it recommends weighing daily. As long as I stay with in my range I don't get to upset. I also take weekly measurements, which makes me feel that much better about my progress.

pobalita

I weigh every day and measure every week. If weight increases by 5 pounds for a couple weeks or measurements are increasing, I reduce calories again.

JanetMMcC

I'm in maintenance, weigh every morning and log the weight in a notebook I keep in the bathroom. Every few weeks I go back and log all the weights at once into MFP. WHen I was losing, I logged the weights into MFP daily.

TheVeganOkie

I weigh daily. The fluctuations have really helped me learn when my period is going to start. My weight ALWAYS jumps three pounds two days before I start. I also find it interesting how different foods affect my body as well. I'm learning to ❤ my body!! Who knew daily weighing would make that happen!!

ipastorsally

Dreysander wrote: »

What the title says. How often to you weigh yourself? I am thinking of starting maintenance soon and I currently weigh every morning, but I'm starting to feel like maybe I need to do it less often due to daily fluctuation.

I don't have a scale, so I use the HIGI stations at the Giant Stores. I weigh in when I go grocery shopping, every 1 to 2 weeks. I just started maintenance on 12/24/15 and haven't figured out how much to eat to stop dropping weight yet. I don't worry about daily fluctuating since I don't weigh in daily.

ilovesweeties

nxd10 wrote: »

I do it every morning BECAUSE of daily fluctuation. I know I'm going to bobble around. I stay in my range. If I weighed once a month, I'd worry about getting a particularly high or low day.

I do the same, for the same reasons and I'm glad to finally see others do too!

DiIDE

A waste of time doing it daily due to fluctuations once weekly is sufficient , same time same clothes or no clothes.