weigh in daily/ weekly/morning/evening?

PheonixRizing

Daily in the morning, I only log once a week usually sunday or monday.

tsimblist

I weigh myself first thing in the morning when I get up wearing just my boxers. And I weigh myself last thing in the evening just before crawling into bed, again in just my boxers.

I use a Withings scale that estimates body fat percentage and automatically logs the readings via WiFi. The frequent weighing gives me plenty of data points for plotting a smoothed curve like you see here: https://trendweight.com/u/58f4f9e97f3740/

hpilon27

Twice a day! Morning and night. I have been maintaining for 6 months now and I'm always within a 3 lb range. I like to predict the number before I step on, based on how I feel. I'm usually pretty accurate. Weighing myself keeps me in check and I like to know the affects of my food choices and exercise.

waltzingaround11

I've been weighing in daily in the mornings AND even sometimes at night for comparison. For one thing, my weeks went by so slow and the scale was just taunting me when I just weighed in once a week. But by doing this I'm learning so much more about what sodium, drinking extra water and really good workouts can actually do to the scale. Its also teaching me how crazy the numbers on the scale really are and not to take it so personal. For example, just last night I was up 8lbs but knew not to get upset. Then I thought about it and remembered that from Sunday-Monday I did a 5k (plus all the walking to and from the course and the dancing at the end of the course), 50 minutes of zumba, ate out a mexican restaurant and then ate those leftovers.
Thats what works for me. Oh, I'm also thinking about my weight as "low-mid-high" instead of exact. For example, when my husband asks about my progress I say I'm around the high 220's now.

nicolemarthacraig

Personally, I think weighing yourself everyday is crazy! Everyone's weight fluctuates so much each day! I would only check it every two weeks? People become obsessed about weighing themselves, I think it can actually ruin your progress doing it this way.

leebesstoad

I weigh myself a couple of times a day just for ****s and grins. I've gotten pretty damned good at guessing what its going to be based upon what I've had to eat and drink during the course of the day. Normally I'll be either completely au natural or in my briefs. But like I said, this is for amusement purpsoes only. My official weigh-in is on Saturday mornings at the gym with my trainer so I can't cheat, I can't lie, I have a witness. It is always in pretty much the same thing. gym short, tops and socks. That's it. That is the official number. But even that I don't freak out about. If it doesn't change over a couple of weeks, I might stress, but over a single reading? Nope. Not in the least.

lavaughan69

I used to weigh in on Saturday mornings, well because I started tracking with MFP on a Saturday. I found that Friday mornings were better. If I were to have a drink or go a bit off plan it tends to be on a Friday night so my numbers were never very good on a Saturday morning. Fridays on the other hand showed the results of the hard work I've done all week without any false water weight from indulgences. :-)

LyndaMRou

Monday mornings as soon as I wake, tends to be the same sort of time due to alarm clock. Weekly, no clothes. Basically morning as you haven't eaten and your body has had the night to digest, weekly as your weight will fluctuate daily and this could discourage if you see it going up and down from one day to the next.

^^^ This. It's exactly what I do. I do sometimes "peek" mid week if I'm concerned, but generally try to keep it to once a week.

mustapekka

I know that many recommend against it, but I weigh myself daily. In the morning w/o clothes. I feel it keeps my motivation up to do it daily.

brucecarey750

Thanks for all the feedback! You people are awesome!!:happy:

JayVarys

What works for you and why? What is your ritual?

I use to weigh myself once a month, then after noticing my weight loss stopped I switched to every saturday in the morning at the gymgym in gym clothes before I ate anything. I heard it's best to weigh in in the morning so I figure the weight scale at the gym would be the most accuriate.

Kaytee86

I am a very number-oriented person so I couldn't wait a whole week to find out numbers. I like to weigh myself every morning when I first get up and in the evening right before I go to bed. I'm not 100% religious about it. Sometimes I only weigh once or skip a whole day, but I like seeing the numbers and how they fluctuate. I know that so many small things can drastically change the result so I'm not too concerned over a small gain or even a small loss, I just like seeing the trend over time and how it changes.

melaniecheeks

Why would you weight with clothes on?

Weight varies throughout the day depending on what you've eaten and drunk, so I go with first thing in the morning, after a pee, no clothes. Once a week...sort of, but I only record it if it goes down.