Any weigh in rituals?????

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  • ogtmama
    ogtmama Posts: 1,403 Member
    n1cholee93 wrote: »
    I guess im the only one who steps on the scale with clothes on? I get up in the morning and use the restroom and step on the scale with my pj's on. I might test the water retention after a workout/rest day and see if that actually matters for myself, though. Never considered that to be a possibility.

    You'd be surprised how much your pajamas weigh!
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    ogtmama wrote: »
    n1cholee93 wrote: »
    I guess im the only one who steps on the scale with clothes on? I get up in the morning and use the restroom and step on the scale with my pj's on. I might test the water retention after a workout/rest day and see if that actually matters for myself, though. Never considered that to be a possibility.

    You'd be surprised how much your pajamas weigh!

    As long as they always weigh wearing them, they are probably less than the error of the scale anyway. Just don't be excited by the weight loss if you weigh naked one day.
  • djwar9858
    djwar9858 Posts: 43 Member
    No, I weigh in at work fully clothed. I remove my shoes. Maybe I'm a couple pounds of clothing lighter than I thought? Get too obsessed, so I don't own a scale.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,164 Member
    n1cholee93 wrote: »
    I guess im the only one who steps on the scale with clothes on? I get up in the morning and use the restroom and step on the scale with my pj's on. I might test the water retention after a workout/rest day and see if that actually matters for myself, though. Never considered that to be a possibility.

    I sleep in a tank top and underwear and that is what I weigh in. I actually weighed in my sleep clothes and then naked and got the same weight so I know that my clothes aren't adding anything as long as I wear the same thing each time. If it is cold and I wear pajama pants I take those off before I weigh because they add almost 2 pounds. But even if your clothes are adding 2 pounds if you're wearing the same clothes every time you will still see your loss.

    My ritual is wake up, pee, start the coffee and weigh. I never eat or drink anything before I weigh. I always step on the scale twice unless I get a different reading. If I do, I step on it 3 times and take the average and then I know I need to change my scale batteries. I usually get the same weight both times.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    n1cholee93 wrote: »
    I guess im the only one who steps on the scale with clothes on? I get up in the morning and use the restroom and step on the scale with my pj's on. I might test the water retention after a workout/rest day and see if that actually matters for myself, though. Never considered that to be a possibility.

    I don't get naked to weigh, especially not in winter! In summer i wear boxer shorts and tank top to bed, in winter pj pants and tank top, none of which make a noticeable difference on the scale.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,223 Member
    I'm hearing hints in some posts that suggest one has a "true weight". Not really so.

    It's more like we have a small range of weight, which will vary through the day as well as from day to day, even if we're not gaining/losing fat or muscle. (Less fiber in yesterday's food, more sodium in last night's dinner, sweating from exercise, etc.) Weighing is just a snapshot of a moment in those continuous cycles.

    We also have a direction of weight: Here on MFP, lots of people want that direction to be "downward". Expect your daily weight to take a jagged, slightly up/slightly course in an overall downward direction, if you're on track.

    Lots of us do that "first thing in the morning, after the bathroom, naked" thing just to filter out extraneous variables. There's no point in doing anything to pursue "one true weight".
  • markswife1992
    markswife1992 Posts: 262 Member
    get up in the morning, drink a bit of water, go to the bathroom, weigh naked. every day :smile:
  • lokihen
    lokihen Posts: 382 Member
    I always have to reset the scale because my cats like to walk on it and it gets confused. Same as the majority in rituals. I also like to workout first thing so I know I consistently sweat out 0.8lbs during my hour on the bike.
  • Hamsibian
    Hamsibian Posts: 1,388 Member
    I am kind of weird. I am trying to gain weight, and I weigh myself twice on Mondays and Fridays. First weigh in is in the morning after I go to the bathroom and before I eat. The second time around noonish - some time after I ate breakfast and a snack. I do this because I go to the doctor's office frequently, and I have to eat before hand since my blood pressure is super low. I tend to enter in the 2nd weigh in to my MFP to get an idea of what I'll see at the clinic (and to get me to eat more), but I pay attention to both trends.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    I've change my routine slightly. Weighing 2-3 time to try to get a consistent number. Of course, because of my dumb scale, that means stepping on it 4-6 times.
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    I pray for a big poop the night before.
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    CafeRacer808 wrote: »
    My "ritual" is pretty straight forward:

    1. Get out of bed
    2. Remove all clothing
    3. Empty my bladder and bowels (on a toilet, of course!)
    4. Weigh

    My daily weigh in then gets automatically synced to Happy Scale.

    Ritual twins!
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    I pray for a big poop the night before.

    I don't poop until ~ 10 am . If I could poop at 5 am I'd be happy.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    I pray for a big poop the night before.

    I don't poop until ~ 10 am . If I could poop at 5 am I'd be happy.

    This is me lol On a good day, it happens 5-10 minutes after getting up in the morning. If i don't go within 30 minutes, i know it's not going to happen at all that day.

    I just hate weighing knowing all the food i ate yesterday is getting weighed too, so if I'm not as empty as possible i don't bother weighing that day.
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    I pray for a big poop the night before.

    I don't poop until ~ 10 am . If I could poop at 5 am I'd be happy.

    I'm happy with any poops, but my fave poops are Monday evenings, since I weigh in on Tuesday AM.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    I pray for a big poop the night before.

    I don't poop until ~ 10 am . If I could poop at 5 am I'd be happy.

    I'm happy with any poops, but my fave poops are Monday evenings, since I weigh in on Tuesday AM.

    I don't think i have ever in my life pooped in the afternoon or evening. It'd either first thing in the morning or not at all.
    I wish i could be like my hubby, who goes soon after every meal.
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    I pray for a big poop the night before.

    I don't poop until ~ 10 am . If I could poop at 5 am I'd be happy.

    I'm happy with any poops, but my fave poops are Monday evenings, since I weigh in on Tuesday AM.

    I don't think i have ever in my life pooped in the afternoon or evening. It'd either first thing in the morning or not at all.
    I wish i could be like my hubby, who goes soon after every meal.

    I think my hubby can poop on demand. I don't have to poop only in the morning, but sometimes I feel like I NEVER get to poop.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    I pray for a big poop the night before.

    I don't poop until ~ 10 am . If I could poop at 5 am I'd be happy.

    I'm happy with any poops, but my fave poops are Monday evenings, since I weigh in on Tuesday AM.

    I don't think i have ever in my life pooped in the afternoon or evening. It'd either first thing in the morning or not at all.
    I wish i could be like my hubby, who goes soon after every meal.

    One thing about losing weight (and due to eating less). I used to 3 times a day. Now I'm happy with 1 time.

    Enough about poop. :)
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    I pray for a big poop the night before.

    I don't poop until ~ 10 am . If I could poop at 5 am I'd be happy.

    I'm happy with any poops, but my fave poops are Monday evenings, since I weigh in on Tuesday AM.

    I don't think i have ever in my life pooped in the afternoon or evening. It'd either first thing in the morning or not at all.
    I wish i could be like my hubby, who goes soon after every meal.

    Enough about poop. :)

    Yes agreed, this thread has taken quite the turn. I don't ever talk about this subject with my husband, but i can talk freely about it with everyone on here :lol:

    But yes, enough poop talk :blush:

  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    This is just me and my wacky digestive system, so it's nothing against omnivores... but when I ate meat, I was perpetually constipated. I'd be lucky to go once every 3-4 days or so.

    Now that I'm a vegetarian? Every morning, like clockwork. That was even before I was on regular magnesium supplementation.

    Oh, btw, if you take magnesium long enough, you seem to get used to it. At least that was my experience. I don't have any profound laxative effect to a rather high daily dose of it (I take it as part of a migraine protocol).
  • srosenthal1225
    srosenthal1225 Posts: 44 Member
    sherbear702 wrote: »
    Mmmm....maybe not a ritual, but I hold my boobs up when I weigh myself (like it'll take off a few pounds) hahaha

    OMG I do the same thing , thats hilarious
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    srosenthal1225 wrote: »
    sherbear702 wrote: »
    Mmmm....maybe not a ritual, but I hold my boobs up when I weigh myself (like it'll take off a few pounds) hahaha

    OMG I do the same thing , thats hilarious

    You two are weird.... I'm going to do this tomorrow morning and see what difference this very scientific way of weighing makes :lol::tongue:

    I wonder if guys do this with another part of their anatomy? Giggedy :flushed:
  • ogtmama
    ogtmama Posts: 1,403 Member
    srosenthal1225 wrote: »
    sherbear702 wrote: »
    Mmmm....maybe not a ritual, but I hold my boobs up when I weigh myself (like it'll take off a few pounds) hahaha

    OMG I do the same thing , thats hilarious

    I suck in my belly and stare straight ahead. I don't know why :D
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    Naked, after a big BM
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,615 Member
    tbullucks2006 wrote: »
    I usually where the same outfit every time I weigh in.

    I wear the same outfit every time too ... nothing.

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