Which day of the week is best to weigh in?
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Every day when I first wake up, because if I do just one day it might land on the day I'm retaining too much water, lol.0
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You don't want to weigh yourself when you are at your lowest. You'll just get discouraged on a high water retention day. You want to weigh yourself on the same day, at the same hour, every week. Even so it will be a crap shoot give or take five pounds. Do yourself a favor and track your trend on something like weightgrapher.0
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I weigh every day but log on Fridays since I tend to eat out Fridays and/or Saturdays. That gives me the rest of the week to recover from the weekend and keep progressing before my next weigh-in.0
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For me, all of them (I weigh myself daily). For you, just do what is comfortable for you.0
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I weigh in every day. Keeps me more accountable that way.0
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Every day as part of my routine.0
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TL;dr: Use a trending weight application. Weight on days that end in y.
Understand that water weight fluctuation is normal and varies faster than your underlying weight level does.
Use a trending weight application to figure out what your underlying weight level is doing.
Libra--android;
happy scale-- iphone
www.trendweight.com -- supported scale, or free fitbit.com account (even without a band)
www.weightgrapher.com -- supported scale, or manual data entry.
This!
Except I am a nerd technical person, so I then enter all my daily weights into a spreadsheet and take the 5 day average of it myself. I also take the calories/exercise burn from MFP and enter it into the spreadsheet. Then I can manipulate it and do math and make graphs etc. Anyways, entering my weight in the spreadsheet is the best part of weighing every day. I really just like putting things in spreadsheets is what I'm saying.
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I weigh every day. I track my weight on happy scale. I only enter new lows on mfp. I like to see the trend. I do have a goal number, but I mostly have a goal range. Once I get there I want to be able to deal with the fact that some days the number will be up a little and some days it will be down a little.0
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I like Saturday morning. It keeps me on track Friday night and then I get to enjoy going off plan a little Saturday night. If I'm not planning to weight Saturday, I tend to have less discipline Friday night.0
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Christine_72 wrote: »
They're gradually converting to a metric week.0 -
Everydays.0
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Thursday is my official day for MFP but I use Libra to track every day. Water retention from the previous weekend should be gone and its before a possible early start of the next weekend.0
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My best day is usually a few days after a salty day lol. I never pick a set day to follow and not even once weekly. I know when the scale should show loss if there is going to be one.
It's been more often this week because I had a nice whoosh happen over a couple days time and I was curious.0
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