Bi-weekly weigh-ins?

cornpop23
cornpop23 Posts: 5 Member
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
To everyone... how often do you weigh your self?

Im just starting out and was thinking about doing twice a week in the beginning to monitor myself. Maybe Thursday as a midweek check and on Monday to see how the weekend went.

Opinions??

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  • MarilynTC
    MarilynTC Posts: 98 Member
    I used to do it every day, but now I do it Tuesdays and Fridays only. Well, unless I get a reading that seems wildly inaccurate, like on Tuesday my weight was up 4 lbs from the previous Friday, so I weighed myself again on Wednesday and was a half pound down below Friday's weight.
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    I weigh myself daily and track my macros/calories together in a spreadsheet. I can identify how and why my body reacts to different things.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    That's essentially what I do. Since I lift Sun, Mon, Wed, and Thu, I weigh after my rest days, so Sunday and Wednesday mornings. I sometimes weigh myself on other days, just out of curiosity, but Sun and Wed are my "official" weigh-ins.

    Of course, I'll probably change that at some point, but it's what I do for now.
  • froggysfriend
    froggysfriend Posts: 220 Member
    I weigh every day. My scale seems to have built in plateaus in that I will weigh exactly the same for 6 days or so and then drop a pound and a bit and then weigh that same weight for another 6 days or so. That is a good in a way because I know what to expect but bad because it`s obviously not accurate! Weighing every day helps me to see the pattern and also to see the impact of things like eating a lot of salt, time of the month, getting carried away with chocolate etc.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    cornpop23 wrote: »
    To everyone... how often do you weigh your self?

    Im just starting out and was thinking about doing twice a week in the beginning to monitor myself. Maybe Thursday as a midweek check and on Monday to see how the weekend went.

    Opinions??

    There's not really any rules...weigh in as often as you want. If you weigh in more frequently be prepared to see fluctuations both up and down...if these bother you, you will need to step away from the scale...but really, you should educate yourself about them.
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