Stop weighing in everyday

DAG7980

Weighing myself daily would make me feel like I’m not losing any weight at all. Additionally, it was dropping the little bit of confidence I’d built up. That drop in confidence would sometimes make me eat more or not make smart food choices. Since I’ve started to weigh in weekly and sometimes bi-weekly, it’s more of a goal to achieve even the smallest difference is a win, and those wins add up. Oh yeah and weighing in at the same time of day is important too.

Anybody have any suggestions on good scales that give accurate body fat percentage ?

Scales that the average person can actually afford?

No links please, just names that can be Google searched.

pierinifitness

All of them can’t be relied upon for reliable BF percentage.

MikePTY

Everybody has a different perspective, and you should do what works best for you, but I have found that weighing myself daily is actually very beneficial to understanding how weight fluctuates and not putting so much focus on the scale.

Weighing weekly can work, but the issue is that what happens if your weight in day, you have something that spikes your water weight, and you record your weight as the same or even a gain? If you weigh daily, you'll have a better understanding if it is a water gain or a real gain. Using a tending app like Libra can help you understand the trends a lot better and help you make sense of your fluctuations, so you can see your overall progress even when the scale may not be making it immediately clear to you.

MikePTY

Here is an example of a weight loss trend. Even though my weight fluctuates a lot, it has still been consistently trending downwards.

hixa30

I found that I needed to average about 30 data points to get a stable fat percentage graph from my scales. I'd be losing weight but gaining fat, apparently. The next day I'd be losing fat again. It's just not worth it, in my opinion.

Have you noticed that gym scales give more consistent results than bathroom scales? That's because a $3000 scale has more, and better quality weight sensors than a bathroom scale costing $10.

You can use methods to reduce measurement errors, such as weighing yourself, holding a 1 kg weight, then weighing yourself again. You just halved random error. Stuff like that. A person would probably need to be comfortable with numbers to do that every day for 6 months or so.

I could detect a plateau in 3 days by using such techniques.