Weigh in Weekly or daily?

Adui13

Like the title says, which is better? I've been avoiding a daily wight check but I wonder if that wouldnt be good to do?

MrWeather_81

Personally monthly is how I go.

Go with what you consider is good for you.

kami3006

Personal preference. If you want to weigh daily then use a weight trending app. They really help put all the fluctuations in perspective. Libra for android, Happy Scale for Iphone, and Trendweight for pc.

If that still messes with your head then go weekly. I recommend taking pictures and measurements either way. I found them very helpful.

TavistockToad

2-3 times a week for me, log it once a week on here

Tacklewasher

Daily and automatically updates everything. I use trendweight more than anything when I want to look at it.

manderson27

Daily then input weight into a trending app I use Libra for android so I can see the general trend.

Laurajayne2603

I weigh once a week at most

Danp

I 'record my weight' once a day when I get up at the same point in my morning routine.
I 'weigh in on MFP' once a week. This is an average of the 7 weights I recorded during the week.

That said, I'll do jump on the scales several time a day, but none of those are recorded or even paid any mind. For example I'll hop on when I get home from work and get changed to see how my weight compares to the official weight I recorded in the morning and I tend to step on the scales last thing before going to bed at night so I can see the next morning how my weight changes while I'm asleep at night.

Pretty much any time I'm in the bathroom in a suitable state of undress I'll jump on just because I'm curious and a bit of a data nerd. I also have zero emotional attachment to the number on the scale so don't get upset in the slightest if I see the number go up. It's all just statistics and data to me, useful information I can use to my advantage.

AnvilHead

"Better" depends upon your personal preference. I prefer to weigh daily (every morning, no clothes, after going to the bathroom) and log my weigh-ins in a weight trending app.

Here's a great, thought provoking discussion of it: https://bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-bmi-and-weighing-frequency.html/

AnnPT77

Personally, I like daily. (I use and like a weight trending app, but I weighed daily even when I didn't have one.)

I'm a data geek. Weighing daily helps me begin to understand my normal, natural weight fluctuations and what causes them (have a cold, started new exercise, ate exta but still healthy carbs or salt, and many more). After a while, I even got pretty good at predicting when I'd see a fluctuation, and how big it would be. With that ability came the attitude that there was no reason to freak out about changes that have nothing to do with fat loss, but have everything to do with how my healthy body operates (water weight, different digestive system contents).

Moreover, looking back at my data, I can see times when I was actually losing weight that if I'd weighed weekly, I wouldn't have seen that loss. If my previous weight was a low water weight day, for example, and a week later was a higher water weight day, I could think I'd actually gained weight, when I was really still losing fat at a reasonable rate. (And the same could happen on a longer time scale, for premenopausal women - I'm 63. ).

In maintenance, that effect gets even more extreme. I can be maintaining, and see my weight go up and down by 5 pounds or more between 2 selected dates. If I weigh daily, I see it wobbling all over the place, and see that one day was weirdly low, and another weirdly high.

IME, information is power.

Running2Fit

I second everything @AnnPT77 said! Weighing daily and logging it into Happy Scale has given me a much better understanding of my weight fluctuations and makes it way less stressful/demotivating when the scale goes up.

Personally, weighing once a week just isn’t enough data for me to feel like I really understand the progress I’m making and it’s more likely I will get frustrated with the numbers on the scale.

Aplant77

I check daily. I feel it helps me keep on track and accountable for my habits!

Fflpnari

I gave up weighing for a while. I get to obsessive with it. Its been over a month since I stepped on the scale. Math says I should be losing. My clothes don't feel tight so I say its working. Its all personal preference and what will help you succeed. Good luck!!