How often do you weight yourself?

MoreFitLessFat

I'm struggling with how often I should weight myself. I think I'd go insane doing it daily. I usually do it weekly, but being a woman that fluctuates a lot because of my period. But also, monthly is waaaay too big of a gap to wait. How about yourself? How often do you weight yourself?

malibu927

I weigh daily and track it in a trend app. It allows me to see past the fluctuations to make sure the overall trend is down.

DevilsFan1

I weight myself daily and average the total at the end of the week.

GOT_Obsessed

I try to weigh myself weekly but I tend to crack and weigh every 5 days. I like doing that.

1houndgal

Every other day or so. Lol

Christine_72

Every day or second day. If i miss going to the toilet first thing in the morning i don't bother weighing in that day.

Rocknut53

Every day. The cold trek to the bathroom in my birthday suit to weigh in wakes me up. I don't log it, however unless there's been a big change up or down. (In maintenance)

nowine4me

Every day. After 2-1/2 years of this, I’m way past the emotions of it. It’s just data. If I’m up for 3+ days running, I dial back the calories a little

bikecheryl

Every day for me too.
It's taught me the ebb and flow of my body - I don't freak out any more when I lose 3.5 lbs after a long walk and gain it all back by bedtime.
I actually find it pretty interesting.

cmriverside

Every day. It took the emotion out of it once I started doing it as part of my routine and saw that things go up and down often with no real reason.

When I used to weigh once a week it was too easy to forget, too. It's just a data point, like @nowine4me said.

MichelleWithMoxie

Once a week

r3488

Daily and track it on a trend website. It's fun on those days when scale weight goes up while the trend weight goes down at the same time.

ITUSGirl51

I was doing it once a week at our gym at work, fully clothed but before eating or drinking. I was too emotional about it to have a scale at home.

I finally broke down and bought a scale for home. It’s downstairs away from easy access in the morning, so it’s too inconvenient to weigh every day. So I weigh once or twice a week on a morning I don’t feel like I have a lot of water weight. I can tell if I’m retaining water if my rings are tight.

FlyingMolly

Daily, and sometimes I step on again later in the day just out of curiosity. I only update MFP if I’ve lost, so sometimes I go two weeks weighing every day and not “counting” it, then over the next few days I’ll suddenly lose a couple of pounds. As long as I get to enter losses sometimes I know I’m moving in the right direction, no matter what the scale says on any particular day.

Frankie_Fan

I was doing it everyday but found myself obsessing over it, now it's about once a week.

richardgavel

Daily. The more data points, the quicker you spot a trend up, down or even. One number doesn't mean much to me over the course of 30 in a month. But I don't bother looking at a graph of a week, only month and longer timeframe.

ltomanek

Not daily, but a lot. I have learned how what I eat and/or activity level impact my daily weight. So I have this weird thing that I check every once in a while.
If I go to bed and weight around 1.5-2 pounds heavier than when I woke up, then I will maintain. But for cutting, then I only want to be a max of 1.5 pounds heavier unless I'm doing a bunch of cardio and therefore also increasing my water.

It's super random, no science behind it at all. But it's worked for me and keeps me from being a slave to the scale or feeling like I'm always hungry.

fuzzylop72

daily using trendweight and happyscale for monitoring. my scale syncs to mfp, but the mfp graph is all over the place and i just ignore it usually.

ccsernica

Whenever I feel like it, but I only "officially" weigh myself for the record once a week.

kpendleton19

Daily and track it on a spreadsheet which calculate mt trends.

DJtobias13

Daily, but I don't put much weight in the #'s I use weekly measurements and a fat caliper as the real gauge of how my routine is going. The scale fluctuates too much, but it gives me an idea of how I did nutritionally... maybe I didn't hydrate enough, maybe too much sodium, processed carbs, etc.

WestCoastCyclist

Daily, but I record only on Tuesday. Informally in my head I keep track of the highs and lows. I can easily have a two to five pound change from day to day, but the lows and highs are fairly consistent. Weighing weekly wouldn't work for me, as with only one data point, I wouldn't know if I was looking at a high or a low.

BitofaState

Most mornings, but I have an "official" recording day on Sunday mornings.

The day to day fluctuations help me accept the trend better and within a week I can get a +/-2kg range. As long as the overall trend is downwards I'm OK.

Best not to look at week to week comparisons though, but where you were 4/5 weeks ago.

I spend more time logging intake and output, recording them on a spreadsheet and running a calculation to estimate where I should be. That helps identify if I'm getting logging errors, and also allows me to look at days where I've done better, or worse and ask why.

I prefer to focus on the things I can can control, rather than the outcome.

ClaireDenise30

I weigh daily but only record once a week. I find it keeps me focused and on track.

gymprincess1234

1x/week maximum, mostly 1x/3months , it really changes

Kirstenmonicaflood

Monthly(ish). I prefer to go off measurements and how my clothes are fitting. If I do it weekly for instance, and I've not lost weight, it disheartens me, even though i know I've built and constantly building muscle I still think "I'm doing all this for nothing!". So I leave a good few weeks before I weigh myself now.

hannaftw

I unfortunately have the bad habit of weighing myself several times a day. I've gotten over it now but before I was so scared that the scales would be wrong that I used three scales and stepped on each of them three times, added it all up and divided by nine to get what I considered a reliable number... I really wish I could stop weighing myself so much, once a week or maybe every other week would be nice. It's not pleasant having your life ruled by the number on the scale each day .

rickdkitson

I use a body composition scale that gives me weight % fat and %muscle. I use it daily first thing in the AM after voiding my bladder and before eating or drinking anything. I turn the % values into fat mass and muscle mass.

I calculate 7 day and 30 day moving averages and this is what I consider not the daily readings.

A 7 or 30 day moving average is simply the last 7 or 30 days readings averaged out.

I have been doing this for a long time and the graphs clearly show that almost all my weight fluctuation is due to changes in fat mass with only a little additional muscle gain. There is virtually no change in the mass of the balance ( i.e. bones, skin, guts and gastric contents) over the time I have been using the system. On a daily basis the majority of the fluctuation is in the balance up and down but that disappears when I look at the moving averages.

MoreFitLessFat

malibu927 wrote: »

I weigh daily and track it in a trend app. It allows me to see past the fluctuations to make sure the overall trend is down.

That's quite clever... A trend app would be just so you can see it in a chart and analyse the process?

MoreFitLessFat

Christine_72 wrote: »

Every day or second day. If i miss going to the toilet first thing in the morning i don't bother weighing in that day.

I hardly ever go to the toilet

theknitpicker

I take a daily measure in the morning using Happy Scale to get moving averages for an overall picture, but I do one "official" weigh in a week, in the evenings, that I record in MFP.

That way, I get a good moving picture with the Happy Scale measures, and having my official weigh in at a heavier time of day, I get a dose of realism too, so I can see how close I really am to my goals.