For those who weigh daily

Ruatine

I started weighing every day at the beginning of this year after receiving a Fitbit Aria scale for Christmas. I really like being able to see the daily fluctuations of my weight and seeing how "bad" days affect it. I have never had someone ask me what my weight is, but if they did, I would give them the number from my scale that morning. What I weigh is what the scale tells me. I don't try to pretend otherwise or get bent out of shape if that number happens to be higher than my lowest weight recorded that week. I know it's a psychological thing for some people not to see that number go up and down every day, but it helps keep me honest.

lexabeep

I weigh daily-some times twice. I am curious as to the weight changes throughout the day. As a female- I know I'm not alone- my weight can from 5+ in a day to -5 a week later. I only record a weight once a week. And try to average a few days. I avoid looking at the scale some times when I'm feeling bloated. Otherwise I have to remind myself I'm an child-bearing aged female and talk myself down

Mapalicious

sijomial wrote: »

I would answer "around 12 stone" - if anyone is interested enough to ask.
(168lbs)

Whoa...I'm the weight of 12 stones. Amazing the things you brits discover.


I weigh daily in the morning, right after my morning pee. If my weight has been at a lower number for 3-4 days straight, I track it. I'm always a bit higher after: excess sodium intake, high-intensity full-body workouts, alcohol consumption, PMS...so I know not to track those numbers.

Also, I don't go only by weight. I track hip/waist ratio (2 weeks) how well I'm doing in my circuit training class, how fast I can bike my commute to work (ha! personal goal!), and how flabby my arms look (totally subjective).

kgirlhart

meganridenour wrote: »

scottsull7 wrote: »

Bmoy87 wrote: »

I weigh myself every 2 weeks on Saturday morning. I only do it every 2 weeks mainly because I drink so much water I have to "water fast" the whole night so I have a proper weigh-in. I think weighing yourself more than once a week is overkill and your treating your weight loss as a race and not the proper life change it is and your possibly setting yourself up for failure.

Actually, exactly the opposite is true. When you weigh yourself everyday you see more clearly the trends and fluctuations. Most people responding here that weigh every day don't get excited and drastically change their behavior because their weight went up 0.5 or 1 pound from the previous day. We know it will come back down and that weight fluctuates due to any of several factors. Weighing every day actually helps to see how weight loss is long-term, and you stop being worried about the difference from day to day. I step on the scale every morning when I wake up and then I go about my day.

This is how I am, but not how I always was! I find myself obsessing much LESS about my weight/the scale now that I weigh daily and see that fluctuations are normal.

Previously, when I weighed weekly, if I hopped on the scale early out of curiosity, it would devastate me to see it a couple pounds heavier. Now from weighing daily, I know that is normal fluctuation

A lot of people mentioned Happy Scale, which I have been using but I don't think I really get it. It doesn't appear to tell me my average weight, only my "best in 10 days." I'm sure there's something I'm not getting but I'm not too worried about it.

Also many people mentioning that no one asks their weight. Sorry, that was just an example. What I really mean is the weight you think of yourself as.

You can go into settings and change it to display your 10 day moving average or your best in 10 days.

AnnPT77

meganridenour wrote: »

Considering how much the scale fluctuates, for those of you who weigh-in daily, which weight for the week do you pick as your "actual weight"?
For instance if someone asked you right now how much you weigh, would you give them your lowest weight for the week, or how much you weighed this morning? Or is there a certain day of the week you consider your "actual" weight?
Purely out of curiosity.
Since weighing daily for the last few months, I find it interesting to see the fluctuations and I can pretty much predict which days are going to be my low days and where my high days will be. As for my actual weight, is it "cheating" to state my weight as the lowest for the week, when some days are 4-5 pounds heavier? And don't get me wrong, I'm not worried about this, it's just something I'm pondering while having my morning cup of coffee.

I'm not that excited about the concept of an "actual weight". It matters to me if I'm heading in the right direction, and how I feel, mostly. I like knowing the fluctuations because I think of weight loss/weight management as kind of a fun science fair project, and knowing the fluctuations helps me understand how my body works.

So, I weigh every morning first thing, record the result in Libra for trending, and record only new lows on MFP.

If someone asks me my weight, one of three answers is likely, depending on who's asking:

• Medical professionals: "122.4 first thing this morning"
• Friends with whom I'm willing to chat about such things: "It bounces a bit, but around 122" or "low 120s".
• Others: "Why would you ask such a personal question?"

blues4miles

Lindsay375 wrote: »

I weigh myself every morning and log it here and also a spreadsheet I made.
That spreadsheet also pulls out every Monday weigh-in on a separate sheet and graphs it. This Monday weight is usually what I say I weigh.
The spreadsheet also takes a weekly average, using the weekly weight loss and then roughly calculates based on those averages my weekly TDEE which I devide by 7 so approximate my daily TDEE. I have only been tracking for 6 weeks but I hope to use this information after several months to get a more accurate maintenance level. It also helps me better approximate my actual calorie burn during exercise.

I really like spreadsheets...

Hey! Fellow spreadsheet lover here!

I have a 5-day and 20-day moving average going for my daily weigh-ins, and also use my weights and reported calories to approximate my TDEE. I know if it's showing a really high BMR/TDEE than I need to expect my weight loss to slow down. It's reporting lower than expected now so I'm making sure my logging is accurate for both food and calories. I always have it running the last 21 days for actual weight loss, expected weight loss (based on Scooby's TDEE #), calculated TDEE, average calories eaten over those 21 days (so I know if I'm hitting my food goal over time or not). I wanted to be like all those cool TrendWeight people so I set up a trendline on my 20-day moving average as well to approximate when I will hit my next mini-goal. I too only have about 6 weeks worth of data, so it keeps me motivated to keep my calorie counts like I want them, exercise good, and weighing in every morning so I will have more and more data!

lorrpb

I log daily in Happy Scale app to see the trends & fluctuations. I log each new low in MFP because that's what keeps me motivated. What I tell someone would depend on who they were, but prob my last low or just total pounds lost to date...132!

chrisssiex23x

I do weight daily. Ok i weight myselg 3 times a day. Like you i like to keep note i aint gaining to much lol. But i go by what i am on Sunday morning as thats my daily weight in day.

chaoticdreams

I weigh daily, but I only log when I've lost weight. My biggest loss is always on Sundays for some reason, especially since I eat more on Saturdays normally.

MNLittleFinn

I weigh daily and use my 7 day average as my weight.

FabianRodriguez94

Since I have not seen any type of halt in my weight loss, I will usually only log my weight when it hits a new low. If it stays the same or moves up, I assume water retention and just keep logging my food accurately as possible until a lower number shows.

CoffeeNCardio

I weigh every day. They're all my actual weight. But since actual weight fluctuates I just put on jeans that haven't fit for years and get happy about that.

BoogeyBrat

I do weigh daily and record it in a document I have for that purpose. I'll then take the lowest number in those 7 days and enter it as my weight for MFP for the week. While I guess a more accurate method would be to take the average and enter that, it feels better to see those lower numbers. Even if they were only technically true for one instance on one day it helps immensely with motivation. As long as I'm seeing a continuous downward trend, I'm happy.

The highest number in 7 days I don't get too bent out of shape over unless it's way off trend for the week, in which case I'll do some investigating and try to figure out what happened.

wrenak

I started this process on April 19, 2015, which was a Sunday. I record my weight in MFP every Sunday. I weigh daily and log into two different apps. (Libra and Fitbit so if something ever happens to my phone I'll have a record of them somewhere.) What I answer depends on who's asking. My mom and husband get the exact amount I weighed in at that morning. The machines at the gym get a rounded-to-the-nearest-pound weight. Today I weighed 187.6 so I told it I weighed 188. Anyone else I am willing to answer just gets the latest MFP weight.

McKittyJane

I weigh daily; I always state my weight as what is was the day before (i weigh before bed)

m27un

I weigh in every morning! I find it motivating and I roll with that weight !!

If you're reading this add me as a friend !!!!!!

TyFi_10

I've lost 140 lbs, and each like 50 lbs have had differences in my tendencies. It's weird.

At the beginning, I weighed every day. I was so obsessed. Then, I began more spaced out weigh ins, every week or even sometimes every second week. Now that I've reached my target weight, I'm less focused on weight as a whole. I periodically look just to make sure im not creeping back up, but I don't care about the number itself because lets not forget that weight at the end of the day is just a number.

lyndefisher

haviegirl wrote: »

I weigh three or four times daily, just because I like data and don't freak out about fluctuations. I keep the lowest reading each day.

lyndefisher

My husband (he is following MFP also) both weigh on a daily basis but only record our weight on Sundays. That is our official weigh in day. If someone asks me what I weigh, I go by my weight on that Sunday!!

omobad312

I don't really pick a weight. I weigh everyday and I guess if someone were to ask my weight and I actually decided to tell them, I'd say a range, like 160-163.

jmgj27

I weigh daily and log it on Happyscale. I take my weight as the weight for that day usually. I only log losses on MFP but all gains and losses on Happyscale so I can keep a record.

Meganthedogmom

kgirlhart wrote: »

meganridenour wrote: »

scottsull7 wrote: »

Bmoy87 wrote: »

I weigh myself every 2 weeks on Saturday morning. I only do it every 2 weeks mainly because I drink so much water I have to "water fast" the whole night so I have a proper weigh-in. I think weighing yourself more than once a week is overkill and your treating your weight loss as a race and not the proper life change it is and your possibly setting yourself up for failure.

Actually, exactly the opposite is true. When you weigh yourself everyday you see more clearly the trends and fluctuations. Most people responding here that weigh every day don't get excited and drastically change their behavior because their weight went up 0.5 or 1 pound from the previous day. We know it will come back down and that weight fluctuates due to any of several factors. Weighing every day actually helps to see how weight loss is long-term, and you stop being worried about the difference from day to day. I step on the scale every morning when I wake up and then I go about my day.

This is how I am, but not how I always was! I find myself obsessing much LESS about my weight/the scale now that I weigh daily and see that fluctuations are normal.

Previously, when I weighed weekly, if I hopped on the scale early out of curiosity, it would devastate me to see it a couple pounds heavier. Now from weighing daily, I know that is normal fluctuation

A lot of people mentioned Happy Scale, which I have been using but I don't think I really get it. It doesn't appear to tell me my average weight, only my "best in 10 days." I'm sure there's something I'm not getting but I'm not too worried about it.

Also many people mentioning that no one asks their weight. Sorry, that was just an example. What I really mean is the weight you think of yourself as.

You can go into settings and change it to display your 10 day moving average or your best in 10 days.

Aha! I see now. Thank you