How often do you weight yourself? I’m curious!

puffbrat

I used to weigh daily but only log my weight on Fridays. This is still how I treat MFP. However, I now log my daily weight into a trending app (Happy Scale).

garystrickland357

I weigh daily and use Happy Scale to monitor trends. It has made me less anxious because I don't freak out over daily fluctuations. I watch the trends and eat a little more or a little less to adjust the trend.

endermako

maybe twice a week

kluvit

I weigh almost everyday, and only log a change in weight if it sticks around for 3 days in a row.

CindyJNC1963

Every morning. I enter the data in a spreadsheet I created.

clicketykeys

Daily, and I use a pen-and-paper log. I'm thinking about using it to develop a weekly average to get a better idea of how I'm trending.

ladybug4233

Right now I do daily. I did 3 to 4 times a day a year ago when I was trying to loose 30 pounds. it was motivation.s. I quit weighing myself for a few months and the weight started to creep back up. Now that I am trying to loose 5 pounds I do check it once a day.

RelCanonical

Once a month, about? I basically weigh a few days after my cycle has started, which is usually the time I feel the least bloated. Since my periods are about 28-32 days apart, it can vary slightly. Once every lunar month, I suppose, haha.

Fivepts

If I weigh and I haven't lost, I have a huge temptation to throw in the towel. So, I try to weigh once every two weeks. Even then if I hit it on a bad day then it can be detrimental for me mentally. I also have a stack of jeans in a range of sizes (that I used to be) that I try on once a month. Even if the next size down is tight and I can't wear them and breathe, I am still encouraged to be able to get them on.

debtay123

I weigh once a week and track it then see if I have gone down by month- I keep up or write the monthly weight to see if my trend is downward

RelCanonical

Fivepts wrote: »

If I weigh and I haven't lost, I have a huge temptation to throw in the towel. So, I try to weigh once every two weeks. Even then if I hit it on a bad day then it can be detrimental for me mentally. I also have a stack of jeans in a range of sizes (that I used to be) that I try on once a month. Even if the next size down is tight and I can't wear them and breathe, I am still encouraged to be able to get them on.

This is me too. For some reason, I would get really discouraged when I weighed once a week and didn't lose. BUT, if I weigh once a month and lost two pounds in a month (even though my rate of loss should have been four) I'm like "woo, lost weight!". Brains are weird sometimes.

CharlieCharlie007

I used to weight daily, until my cat pissed on the scale, and killed it. Now I weigh myself every six weeks at dietitians. But I am more into measurements. Skin fold and tape measure. I believe that is the true measure of my progress.

brenn24179

daily, last year it was once a month and then I gained 25 lbs, learned my lesson, everyone is different though

CheekyChiq88

i weigh myself on the 1st of the month and the 15th...so i guess every twoish weeks. I get too obsessive if i weigh myself once a day or even once a week. This is a new strategy for myself but so far successful i lost 18 lbs in january!

Housegoat

once a week.. Monday mornings

cwolfman13

couple times per week, usually towards the end of the week.

empressjasmin

Daily weigher, but it is not always the best for me. I often focus too much on weight alone which is not good for my mental. I try to do every few days in no specific pattern.

zeejane03

CharlieCharlie007 wrote: »

I used to weight daily, until my cat pissed on the scale, and killed it. Now I weigh myself every six weeks at dietitians. But I am more into measurements. Skin fold and tape measure. I believe that is the true measure of my progress.

My cat used to sleep on my scale and kept draining the darn battery Drove me nuts!

Bry_Fitness70

5-6 days per week. I have a scale that automatically dumps the data into other apps (including MFP), so there is no manual effort in recording it. I am in sustainment, so why weigh myself so often? Because I am a fitness data addict, lol.

guil0095

It's so hard not to weigh in. I weigh in daily when I wake up out of habbit. If I know I am going to have a cheat weekend, I usually skip weighing in on the weekends.

dbanks80

I lift weights and I go by how I look and not the number on the scale. I might check it once a month maybe.

mbaker566

daily. more data points to see trends

sheloves89

Every morning. It helps keep me comfortable with (sometimes bizarre) weight fluctuations.

BeGrandLike

Most mornings.

Wake up, stumble to the bathroom, wee, weigh myself and record the number, brush my teeth, and then zombie my way downstairs in search of coffee.

I do get a bit of a kick out of predicting which way the numbers will have gone, depending on alllll the factors that go into water retention every day. I kinda think it's fun to be able to think "hmmm so I feel thirsty right now so maybe lower... but also I lifted heavy yesterday and my butt is aching a bit so that's definitely retaining water... And I did have a bunch of salty food last night to maybe higher...".

I find playing that game with myself (on the mornings when I've enough brain power to string two thoughts together..) helps me to see fluctuations not in terms of fat loss/gain, but about water. And sometimes- like say, if I've killed it at with the barbells the evening before- a bit of water gain is a sign that my body's busy building some sweet sweet muscles. Which, like: awesome.

Fitforevermore

I weigh on Saturday mornings so that I don't get panicked by any weekend damage on the scales, I tend to sabotage if I see big numbers!

TonyB0588

JustEdie1 wrote: »

I use to weigh in daily like it was a religion. Then recently I stopped, because I thought to myself maybe it was causing me to self-sabotage. THEN I started weighing in once week, but because I know I have a weigh in coming up, I start to get extremely obsessive about what I’m consuming. Tracking in a mentally unhealthy way. How do you guys weigh in? Maybe I should just never weigh in. Lol

I weigh everyday. Wake up, undress, get on the scale.

choppie70

I weigh daily - right after I use the bathroom in the morning. I like the information that it gives me and I have learned a lot about my body by doing it. I used to be frustrated by the scale, but I learned to use it as a tool to my weight loss, just like my food scale.

brittlb07

Once in the morning and once at night. Religiously. This has helped me see trends throughout the day based on what I eat. If I start to get discouraged when weight loss slows I’ll back down.

I should add I use trending apps so that I don’t get discouraged if it’s up.

seltzermint555

Daily weigh ins are for me. I find that when I weigh less often, I start to worry about it more and allow the numbers to mess with my mind. Even after a particularly heavy eating/sodium filled day, I would rather know the number exactly and move on. It motivates me for sure. I've been maintaining a big (over 100 lb) loss for 5 years and find that the times I've slacked off on daily weigh-ins are the times when I have put on a few pounds.

wendsg

Every morning. Much as many others, stagger into the bathroom, relieve myself, strip and step on. Plunk said number into MFP, move on with life, once a week (usually Sunday) pull the weight report so I can view the total trend. I numbers and analysis, and have learned not to obsess about day-to-day changes.