Anyone Weigh in Every Day?

malyndad

I weigh every morning, then average the daily totals at the end of the week. It helps keep me on track but lessens the panic if you have a significant jump one day.

TheMMan

Since I have a background in quality control and Six Sigma, I weigh every day and plot it using control chart techniques. Periodically, I re-adjust the chart by eliminating the first several days that are out-of-control on the high end to bring everything back in control. This forces me to lose weight and "bring the process back out of control".

Nerdy? Yes, but it works for me.

melissa1217

I weigh in every morning. However, like most people have said, it can be very demotivating since one's weight can go up and down each morning (mostly water weight). I find that even if my weight does go up from one day to the next (even if i've stuck perfectly to my diet) it only motivates me more to eat healthy all day because I want the weight to go back down.

Jelly_Bean313

Hi All! So when I first started I weighed once a week, but then someone had made a good point that daily make the graph look cool. LOL! So, I started daily. At first I would get down on myself because depending on my water retention I would "gain"3 lbs in one day or lose 5. I've decided to go back to once a week. It would seem more accurate that way.

RunFarLiveHappy

If you use the "search" function here in the forums you'll see tons more responses to this question. (:

I weigh daily when I remember to.

aspalmer3

I used to weigh every day but not anymore. I would get frustrated and would complain to my husband about it. He took my scale away for a month and told me there were more important things than that number on the scale and you know what? He was right. I weigh for sure once a week...I may climb on another day midweek if I'm feelin " fluffy " or something. There are so many factors that can affect your numbers daily -water and just building muscle - and getting caught up in a number when you see changes in your body whether the scale moves or not can get a little obsessive IMO. Of course I'm just a minion LOL. I just track it for sure once a week and roll with the punches the rest of the time.

Jelly_Bean313

LOL! Sounds like my hubby, he threatened to take away my scale because I kept complaining to him and getting upset.

phyllisgehrke

I weigh every morning before I drink any water.
I get up and go to the bathroom and weigh.

I do not get stressed about it.
I just want to know if I gained 1/2 pound, then I look at my Diary to see what occurred.
Like maybe taking in too much sodium

catfive1

I used to weigh my self before bed and first thing in the morning. Last weekend I put the scale away. Now I will weigh in on Friday mornings.

It was a great surprise that I had lost weight this week after a long plateau.

Lld320

I try to do it every other day at the same time in the morning before I eat or shower. I don't weigh myself on mornings after the day I have lifted weights because I always weigh more. Sometimes I do just out of habit though.
Remember, if the numbers go down it's great positive reinforcement, if they go up it just means you gotta try harder! Don't give up either way.

walleymama

I weigh myself every morning. I like seeing the progress and I do understand there are fluctuations so if it is up a bit I don't worry about it so long as the trend is downwards.

I just found out about this app called Happy Scale, someone here recommended it on another thread. I'm not sure whether it is calculating a moving average or curve-fitting, but it shows you the trend and evens out the ups and downs. If you are going to weigh yourself every day you might find this helpful.

aspalmer3

LOL! Sounds like my hubby, he threatened to take away my scale because I kept complaining to him and getting upset.

Believe it or not it actually helped me LOL. Of course at the time I was furious

darlingbones

I weigh every day. It used to make me upset when I weighed my highest (148lbs) but now that I've lost so much weight (I'm at 115lbs now) I find that it keeps me motivated. So I guess the effects of it depend on how you feel about your body.

teaparty75

i do it every morning AFTER the gym and right before i jump in the shower but i only mentally record it on mondays - and i only put it in MFP if i've lost atleast a pound ....i don't bother with numbers after the decimal point LOL

fat2strongbeth

I weigh every morning before I drink any water.
I get up and go to the bathroom and weigh.

I do not get stressed about it.
I just want to know if I gained 1/2 pound, then I look at my Diary to see what occurred.
Like maybe taking in too much sodium

I do the same, but I only log my weight once a week. The daily weigh in helps to keep me on track.

i_am_stuck

about 12 times a day... have a withings scale and it automatically syncs to my phone and mfp. Obviously any single measurement is a fluctuation but withings also draws a trailing average graph and it has more data points to work with. I also like this because I measure body fat at the same time which tends to fluctuate more and it is nice to have many data points throughout the day.

jess6742

I weigh in everyday and track it in excel. When you make it into a graph it's really interesting seeing how the daily ups and downs go into an overall downward trend. I also track my inches though every two weeks that way I don't get discouraged if the scale goes up or down. There have been times when the scale was up 5 pounds but I wasn't upset because my inches were the same.

jwdieter

If I didn't weigh every day, I wouldn't have as strong of a handle on my body's weight fluctuations and trends. But for people who get upset by scale numbers - which can lead to non-productive behavior - it's perfectly reasonable to weigh infrequently or not at all.

Shawn_in_OKC

I weigh in once a week.

delyn356

i like to weigh every morning because it keeps me motivated and focused to stay on track. there's an app that you can get called Libra, and you can track your weight with it. its awesome cause if you weigh every day (and insert your weight) & have crazy weight fluctuations, it'll tell you the trend which is helpful.

Bernadette60614

I weigh myself every a.m. and every p.m., record it in a cheap monthly calendar and I look for trends. So long as I'm trending downwards I'm fine.

However, if a gain makes you eat, and a loss makes you eat...then don't!

arl1286

I usually do, either every day or every other day. That's because my weight fluctuates so much, so I like to see a general pattern that I couldn't get if I only weighed in once a week.

rosana003

Hey y'all, I don't think its a good idea because losing weight should be hand in hand with getting fit. If you weight train and do some cardio, you will lose weight slowly so looking at the scale would be very frustrating. Let me rephrase you will increase muscle mass and loose fat. Now if you measure your parts like its recommended that is a lil more accurate as to how much progress you have made. Before and after pics are also very helpful to see the progress overtime.

I have weight trained and diet for a long time on and off, the best results I've had so far is dieting, weight training and some cardio. I didn't lose weight in pounds but I did lose 5% body fat and the change was amazing. so I hope you keep that in mind.

I hope that lil input helps
Rosana

Sil_76

I weigh every day.

Back in the day, it used to bother me if my weight would go up or if I stayed the same for a few days and I would give up (!) but now I take it all in stride.
I've learned that a high sodium meal, a strenuous or new workout, pms or not having a BM will affect the number on the scale but it eventually sorts itself out as long as I stick to my plan.

I've weighed 240.8 all week and for once, I'm hanging in there without throwing in the towel.

ymmv

eta: I weigh 240 not 140 ... I wish

I've noticed this too, i think i will start to only weigh myself once a week because the numbers changes over night like crazy. I have to remind myself that i didn't eat crazy or not workout for a week so something else is going on!

Mslmesq

Once a day, first thing in the morning. Recommended ornot, it keeps me on track. The only time I've ever gained weight is when I stopped weighing myself. Course, I probably stopped weighing myself cause I knew I was gaining weight.

AABru

I weigh everyday as well. I am--like others here--looking for an overall monthly downward trend. I know my weight will fluctuate as much as 4 pounds a month and sometimes that amount in a day. But I am watching for a downward trend...

runnermama81

I do, only because it seems to help me stay in control of what I eat better. Well....most days anyway...sometimes I skip period week cuz...ugh.

FlaxMilk

I weigh every day when I need to rein myself in and get myself back on track. I'm really good at ignoring reality if the numbers don't force me to acknowledge it.

jayjay12345654321

I weigh in every morning when I wake up since I know that will be my most accurate measure of the day. But I only track once a month. I have a marker board in my bathroom with a tape measure hanging over it. On the first of every month, I write down my weight and my BWH measurements. Weighing every day without logging it helps me to keep on track and not let an entire week get away from me, wasting the next week playing catch up. During the last week of the month, I have a pretty good idea if I'm going to hit my target and have time to tweak my routine if not.

alicja_xo

i try not to but i usually do it anyway haha

i know that my weight goes up and down depending on what ive eaten that day so when i see the weight going up one day i just try not to stress out too much