For those who weigh daily

puffbrat

mifii10 wrote: »

I weigh myself everyday but only log my weight on mondays... and i consider my "actual" weight to be what i weighed last monday.

I do this except Fridays are my "official" weigh-in day rather than Monday. That way I have the week to recover from whatever overeating/water retention happened during the weekend.

My mom and husband are the only people who ask for the actual number though, and they do that infrequently.

jemhh

I would say "around 150" because I think that's close enough. I don't think anybody really needs to have my exact weight. I mean, I'm assuming that we aren't prepping for a C150 flight and the asker doesn't need to figure out how much s/he can carry.

amyk0202

No one outside a doctor's office has ever asked me my weight. In my head I go with the lowest weight I've gotten recently. I don't log my weight on MFP anymore. I see my doctor every month, so what I weigh when I get on the scale there is my "official" weight. I only get worried if I see a trend where my daily high weight starts going up with no corresponding downward dips.

jemhh

amyk0202 wrote: »

No one outside a doctor's office has ever asked me my weight. In my head I go with the lowest weight I've gotten recently. I don't log my weight on MFP anymore. I see my doctor every month, so what I weigh when I get on the scale there is my "official" weight. I only get worried if I see a trend where my daily high weight starts going up with no corresponding downward dips.

That's a good point. The only person who has asked how much I weigh is my sister. But she asks me a lot of stuff that nobody else would ask me.

lml852014

I usually say the weight that I am by Friday mornings because Friday and Saturdays I set my calories to maintenance and tend to eat more junk then usual which causes me to retain water etc so my weight is high for the next few days.

IndianaGolfer

I weigh myself all the time, only record what the scale says on Tuesday nite right after I get to work, then I subtract 5 lbs from wearing steel toed boots and clothing of course. It doesn't bother me to see fluctuations from one " official " weigh in to the next.

JMLSZ

I weigh daily but only log losses - if it's fluctuated up, I just don't log that day. Because this makes me feel better

GreyKnight120

I weigh daily and tend to look at it less as a line and more as a band. I've been doing it long enough now where I can usually pinpoint where I'm at the upper end of my weight range (sodium, retention, etc.) and where I'm at the lower end of that band (healthier than normal day, etc.). I don't really use any sort of weekly track, so how much I'm losing over a week has never really been a metric I've examined very closely. Besides, Monday-to-Monday and Wednesday-to-Wednesday of the same week could have widely varying results. This is also the reason I switched to daily tracking. I know it's not for everyone, but I like seeing the day-to-day fluctuations and comprehending the reasons for them. It's been an enjoyable part of my own journey in losing weight.

CurlyCockney

Nobody asks me how much I weigh, but if I want to say how much I've lost I have to look it up as I can't remember either number. Which is an long-winded way of saying that I use my last weight.

fatfudgery

I weigh myself daily and track a 7-day average. Then I graph them against each other, which gives you a pretty good idea of what's going on (see bottom graph):



It's important that you try to weigh yourself under consistent conditions every day (say, after using the bathroom in the morning, before eating breakfast, wearing only your underwear.)

Bshmerlie

I weigh myself daily but only log each time I reach a new low.

CasperNaegle

I weigh every day and just watch my trend over time.. you can't get hung up on the day to day fluctuations you will see. One thing you can do is weigh daily and then keep a 7 day running average to track the trend without the fluctuations so much.

scolaris

Fitbit gives me a seven day average weight. I use that one until the next week.

BluenoserGal

I weigh daily. I log when I've lost. Keeps things consistent. It's annoying when I've hit a plateau, but nice when it's going down again.

samchez0

I just log Friday's. The rest of the week is just for curiosity and I track it in a different app.

shinycrazy

I use a different app for my daily weights and put my weekly weight in on Fridays. Since that's the end of the week when I've been mostly good, but before the weekend when my sodium intake may be a tad higher which will cause water weight gain.

PamHealthMission

I use the Happy Scale app which gives me a weight trend each day. I like it because weight does fluctuate.

nightbird1103

I've begun weighing and logging daily. That's probably why My tracker always says zero lost lol. But I like to see the trends, and I'm trying to desensitize myself from freaking when the scale goes up even when I'm "good". I typically look at my Monday morning weight to see whether I've lost for the week.

tallieterp

I'm like most other people - I use an average or wherever I have been steadiest at for the week. So if I range between 4 lbs but was steady for a few days at a 3 lb loss than that's what I'll consider my weight to be until I even out again a new weight... but that works for me since I tend to have a drop then a 1-2 week steady state then another drop...

eeejer

This site fixes all this for you https://trendweight.com/dashboard/

Sarahb29

I weigh every day and only log if I lost weight. It keeps me motivated to lose more if I know I can't log until I hit my next lb. I bounce up and down 2lbs and have been around 269-268 all week. Too many carbs

krdews

I weigh myself daily for my own tracking purpose and rarely do people ask my weight (however, they do ask what size I wear HA!). Either way, I generally don't share that info; but if I do, I have a tendency to give my higher weight and now that I think about it I have no idea why. Lowering the expectation... hmmm.

LivingtheLeanDream

If you use an app you'll see the overall trend of your weight.

For me Saturday is my lightest weigh in day, I can fluctuate up and down a few lbs but overall I maintain my goal range within +/-4lbs which is all I really care about.

jaxlace

There was recent research by some university (?) in the USA (?) that people who weigh in daily actually lose weight better and keep the weight off longer. Seems logical to me, once you are used to the small fluctuations, as you don't have the discouraging experience of trying hard all week to find you have apparently put on several pounds. It may just be one of those fluctuations and within a day or two you are down again - but you won't know that as you're not weighing in again until the week's up. So long as the general trend is down, you have the reward of knowing all the time that you're doing well.

Sorry I can't tell you the details of the research project - I think I was so surprised to see the practise approved of, I wasn't paying attention.

IriaSparcast

I weigh daily and use Trendweight. When people ask, i tell them "I'm trending 147lb currently."

And while i'm still slowly losing (~0.25lb every week or two), even in Maintenance, when people question whether i plan to lose more, i just tell them that I'm focusing more on overall health and fitness, not my weight.

MaryQueenofWalking

I weigh daily. My number is within a 3 pound plus or minus range. I usually don't tell anyone what I weigh.

RebeccaNaegle

I weigh daily, to track the changes, and it changes daily a pound up or down, give or take a few ounces. Trend is moving downward, slowly. If I were going to give my actual weight to someone, I would say whatever the scale said that morning.

mscrystallee

I weigh daily to keep myself in check but I weigh-in and check in my weight on Friday mornings.

dujyandco

I count the lowest as actual Loss, but according to my own head, I 'weigh' whatever it said that morning. So when my mother asks, , I say "I've lost 21 pounds", though I might be a pound or 4 ounces or 3 pounds higher the day of asking.
I've been weighing daily for a couple of months, and noting the trends... though even those were thrown off this month! Sheesh. Someday I'll get it.

daniwilford

When asked for my weight I take my lowest weight and round to the nearest 5 pounds. For example I weighed 174.2 this morning my lowest weight was 173.8, I say about 175. But the amount for fitbit and MFP I update and keep at the lowest weight, because that impacts the amount of calories I can burn and will estimate giving me the minimum I need to eat.