How Often do you Weight Yourself?

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  • Keleb_DaWhiz
    Keleb_DaWhiz Posts: 55
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    I don't weigh myself anymore officially. i might weigh myself every once in a while for curiosity sake. haha
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
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    once a week- Monday morning
  • Leather_N_Lace
    Leather_N_Lace Posts: 518 Member
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    Every Wednesday morning I weigh and measure myself..
    I lift weights so I try not to get hung up on the pounds but focus more on inches lost.
  • badmoose
    badmoose Posts: 25
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    Weight can fluctuate wildly day to day, so I try and normalize the changes by weighing about every two weeks. It seems to be a good period in which you can really see encouraging progress, and yet not so long that your'e not still keeping relatively current and measuring accurately.
  • BrienJD
    BrienJD Posts: 541 Member
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    Every day Just for grins though. I don't log it but once a month.
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
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    I weigh myself every chance I get, but at least every night and every morning...and anytime there's a scale around. I don't use the scale as a way to track progress, I'm just interested in the numbers and how they fluctuate. I do use the scale for long term trending, but for actual progress I use how my clothes fit and mirror and occasionally do some measurements.

    I know when I started out last year I set up a spreadsheet and tracked night and morning weight for about a month and a half, and it really let me know how much the scale jumps up and down...sometimes for stupid reasons. I have seen it jump up a pound after brushing my teeth.

    ETA: I only log a new low.
  • crystalmoore83
    crystalmoore83 Posts: 103 Member
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    I weigh my self daily, but only log once a week every thursday
  • NancyKhuu
    NancyKhuu Posts: 87 Member
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    I used to weigh myself everytime I went to the bathroom. Now I don't care much about the weight anymore but the way I actually look. I might lose fat, but then I might gain muscle from working out so the number doesn't tell me anything... I'd say I weight myself once a week?
  • _useyourwords_
    _useyourwords_ Posts: 16
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    I think waiting a month before weigh-ins doesn't keep you as accountable as it does if you weigh yourself more frequently. I would say once a week is probably a more realistic approach. And there's nothing wrong with losing a pound a week! It's better than gaining that pound! :)
  • Kabuhtu
    Kabuhtu Posts: 85 Member
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    I weigh myself whenever I happen upon a scale. It could be 3 times a week or once in 3 months. I DO NOT keep a scale in my home. It would be torture. I however, do keep lots of mirrors and look at myself a billion times a day to make sure my sexy hasn't runaway. ;)
  • nyrina4life
    nyrina4life Posts: 196 Member
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    I drive myself nuts by weighing myself daily. Sometimes I do it twice. It's always been a strange obsession. . .
  • pattya925
    pattya925 Posts: 398
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    2-3x/week
  • elkahallick
    elkahallick Posts: 1,138 Member
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    What you see in the mirror is all that matters, dont be OCD with youre weight it will stress you out and frustrate you if youre expectations are too high and that may lead to giving up... Have fun, work hard and eat right and live life.... If your mood is determined by a scale, take a loaded shot gun and blow that think into a million pieces... problem solved.
  • red_road
    red_road Posts: 761 Member
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    if ive been good every 2 days, if ive been bad i might wait as long as four days.
  • Mariposa_Lily
    Mariposa_Lily Posts: 38 Member
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    Right now, when I'm losing, I weigh once a week--Wednesday, mid morning. I think I chose Wednesday because weekends are the times I'm most likely to be "bad," so that gives me a couple of days to recover and helps me plan the second half of the week. For me, daily is too much stress,. Some call it "accountability," but I don't like the notion of the scales determining whether I "reward" or "punish" myself from day to day.

    Once I loose what I need to, I'll probably go back to what I used to do: Once a month, at most, and just judge by how my jeans fit. :-)
  • Flyer69
    Flyer69 Posts: 100 Member
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    Every day, whenever I am naked or near naked in the bathroomas as there resides the scale.
    I find it fascanates me how much it can fluctuate, once I git reallydesponded though as my weight was going up, but I was actually working out harder and watching what I ate.
    I figured out tough that it had been the diuretics (on prescription for an ailment) I was on for 10 days, which first made me loose weight fast and then when I stopped I gained a lot back.
  • SRB8710
    SRB8710 Posts: 90
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    I use Saturdays for my official weigh in day and update that here. But, I admit I weigh myself every morning. I know your weight can fluctuate but I like seeing it daily. In way, for me, it motivates me more to remember that I will be stepping on that scale so I make better food choices during the day. :)
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
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    I weigh my self daily.
    It's become an addiction.

    Apparently it's also a form of bulimia.

    What?
    I weigh myself daily just to keep myself accountable.
  • Purpleflipflops
    Purpleflipflops Posts: 563 Member
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    Every day, but I take it with a grain of salt. I like to do it to keep myself in check, and also reflect on where increases come from. If I'm up, I normally try to reason it out, like "I ate a heavy meal" or "I ate a lot of Salt" or "I drank a ton of Water". If I don't have a reason, then no big deal.
    That being said, I only log my weight Weekly, I consider Saturday Morning my "Official Weight" Day. :)
  • xoemmytee
    xoemmytee Posts: 162 Member
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    Ok hear me out people. Before you read any further, know that I only recommend this method for people who take the number on the scale with a grain of salt, realizing how much body weight can fluctuate.

    That being said, I weigh every day. Why do I do this? To get more data. To put it simply, if you weigh once a week, you don't see fluctuation within a week and may be more put off at the fact that you didn't lose or gained one week. Perhaps you weigh in at a low point of a fluctuation, but the next week, you end up weighing in at a high point for whatever reason. It is much easier to see a general trend and account for natural fluctuation when you weigh more frequently. The more points you have on your graph, the easier it is to tell your weight loss trend apart from daily/weekly/monthy fluctuations.

    I hope that made some bit of sense. I am very bad at explaining things.

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