Monthly weigh-ins or weekly weigh-ins... which one do u guys prefer???

MysticGoalie

Daily, in morning.

LynnJ9

Weigh and log every day. I agree with the others, if I weighed once a week and happened to weigh on a high day, I would get discouraged. Weighing every day I can see the lows and power through the highs. I feel like weighing everyday keeps me accountable everyday. If I only weighed once a week I think I might be lax in my eating when I know I have 5 more days before I weigh in next.

Cortneylbarrow

I weigh daily but measure weekly. It helps me feel more accountable for my meals. If i see the scale going up I know i need to push harder. I've also started to do pictures once a month.

GemstoneofHeart

I weigh daily. I love seeing the fluctuations, it's educational to me.

dadsafrantic

Mycophilia wrote: »

Daily weighing + phone app for plotting trends/averages = accurate tracking of body weight changes.

exactly.

Lounmoun

I weigh weekly. It is just the right amount of information for me.
I have tried daily and I found it demotivating. I understand fluctuations but I can't deal with seeing and focusing on the scale number daily. Monthly weighing is not enough information.

Malyssam27

Daily. This sounds silly but I'm motivated to get out of bed in the morning to see how much I weigh, even though it's been going up lately.

livingleanlivingclean

Rebnurse1977 wrote: »

Im surprised by all the daily weights! Im like you OP, I can easily get discouraged when im working so hard but see that scale go up... wonder if Im doing it wrong.

If you use a trending app, it evens out the daily fluctuations and shows you the general trend. Despite going up and down daily, you can see the overall (hopefully) downward trend which I find helps put less emotion behind the daily number on the scale.

(another daily weigher!)

Psychgrrl

Ditto for the trenders--I weigh daily and use Happy Scale. I more weigh-in dread! Happy Scale, indeed!

igarcia13

I weigh in daily, this helps me figure out what I did wrong in the day in case I gained a little.

livingleanlivingclean

igarcia13 wrote: »

I weigh in daily, this helps me figure out what I did wrong in the day in case I gained a little.

Weight is not likely to always go down. Daily fluctuations are completely normal - it doesn't mean you did anything "wrong"

narspips

I started out monthly but I might switch to weekly: I weighed myself yesterday morning (2 weeks after my last weigh-in, just to see where I was at) and despite weighing at consistent time of day etc. I don't entirely trust the results.

It's a bit of a "to each their own" thing. I don't think I could ever do daily, though. I'd drive myself mad!

misnomer1

Daily

ejg1010

I use Happy Scale to log my weight daily so that I can see the trend.
I log my weight in MFP weekly, first thing on a Friday morning.

SafioraLinnea

Daily. I like to see my variability and use happy scale to see my trend.

PAV8888

The trend (over a period of time at that) is the only thing that counts.

Daily + trendweight (i started by using freely available without a device Fitbit account)

I only used to post new lows on my mfp feed.

Your total weight loss ticker updates automatically based on daily "spot" weight.

At a slow weight loss rate there were a number of months when measurements 30 days apart would indicate a discouraging weight gain, yet looking at the trend you could see a 2lb a month loss!

Seffell

Daily.

Kim_S_G

Daily

WanderingRivers

Daily but I only record if it drops as a general rule.

Malyssam27

My son who lost quite a bit of weight using MFP didn't weigh himself at all. Just at the beginning to set the calories, then increased them when he felt he was thin enough. He said he can look in the mirror and see if he is too fat or too thin.

AnnPT77

Daily for me - helps me understand what causes my fluctuations. I use Libra for trending, too. While I was losing, I only logged new lows in MFP. (I'm maintaining now, still weighing daily & recording in Libra.)

What the scale says is just a data point, not a cause for drama. IMO, we don't even have a "true weight", just a general range of current weight, and a longer term trend direction of that range - lower, higher, or even.

I can't imagine weighing weekly, let alone monthly. I like data! I've been weighing myself every day for over a decade, even long before deciding to lose weight.

aguy0980

I do weekly and log...but after reading these comments, perhaps I should start daily and then track trends/average.

rheddmobile

Weigh daily, only log new lows. I know I am not gaining anything besides water weight eating 1500 calories, so the scale going up doesn't bother me. But having the information lets me see what helps or hinders - for example, not getting enough sleep really slows down my rate of loss.

Coco_Camm

Weekly. I would just obsess waaaay too much if I weighed myself daily.

I do think that once I hit my maintenance weight I might weigh in daily. Maybe.

Mezzie1024

I weigh daily for reasons already listed above.

VeronicaA76

As a woman. Every 4 weeks. Because of menstral cycles, weight fluctuations can be huge from one week to the next. Personally I weigh and measure myself once a month. One would need some insane bloating for body measurements (cm/inches) to be off.

Now, if you are not on the pill. Weighing yourself daily can actually help track your menstral cycle (help save a pair of nice underwear or two).

amerilenne

I weigh twice a week, on Monday and on Friday, it helps me keep focused and motivated

toffeepearce

Weekly anymore then that and I minght slack can nip in the bed would never weigh daily but each to there own!
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amusedmonkey

Daily. I love data.

nyponbell

Randomly. Sometimes I plan ahead to weigh in a few days apart but often only remember that I was supposed to have weighed in that day after breakfast. Perhaps I should have a better system for it - in which case a weekly weighin would be my preference.