Weighing in

chadwheeler4422

Do you weigh yourself everyday? Once a week? Once a month?

jen3frg22

I weigh myself twice a day- when I first wake up in the morning and right before I go to bed. I know weight fluctuates a little bit daily, and staying consistent with this schedule I've learned my patterns. Weighing frequently helps me stay on track and prevents my weight from getting too far out of control.

quiksylver296

Every morning, naked, after I pee. I've learned a lot about my body and how it holds water weight because of daily weighing. Extra carbs or sodium, sore muscles, travel (especially flying), sunburn, injury - all these things affect my scale weight. But I know it isn't fat gain, so I don't freak out.

I wouldn't have this knowledge if I didn't weigh daily.

mhassan160

Every week, but sometimes measurements matter!

hobbeskastiel

Once a week.

PrincessValerieSyMadrinan

Every morning...

itslikeanna

Every morning! With the occasional waist measurement when I feel I look lighter. I find it keeps me on track.

dlmciver

Every morning...learn so much about patterns and fluctuations! Try to measure seasonally.

sijomial

First thing (ok second thing...) in the morning, every morning.
Monitoring my weight trend is my main tool for long term maintenance in my goal weight range, data not emotion.

May also weigh before/after long or hot cycle rides to gauge my rehydration needs.

sarap1187

I weigh everyday, it just keeps me on track

michaelsurrett1154

Once a week and always on the same day with the same pattern. It gives me a reliable basis to gauge

junebug_1977

Every morning. I understand the 'once a week' recommendation, but after using mfp for 7 years now I can almost tell you what my weight is going to be based on what I ate and what I did the day before. I like to see the visual of those decisions on the daily.

Kaitie9399

jen3frg22 wrote: »

I weigh myself twice a day- when I first wake up in the morning and right before I go to bed. I know weight fluctuates a little bit daily, and staying consistent with this schedule I've learned my patterns. Weighing frequently helps me stay on track and prevents my weight from getting too far out of control.

I do exactly what Jen does. Morning and night. It helps with accountability and keeps me focused on my long-term goals.

Years ago I would only weight myself once a week and then get ticked off when the scale was higher—it felt like I just wasted an entire weeks ‘effort’ because nothing changed. Now I know daily where I stand and it keeps me going and eliminates the ‘surprise nothing you did this week mattered’ scenario.

steph2strong

I've weighed daily for the past 7 years, through 2 pregnancies and postpartum periods, through times of loss, gain and maintenance. I weigh first thing in the morning. It has definitely helped me learn a lot about my body, how it responds to different circumstances (food consumption, fluid status, medication use, illness, exercise, stress, and HORMONES! my number one contributor to alterations in scale weight fluctuations). My number one key point about weighing is that daily numbers/fluctuations mean absolutely nothing, only long term trends do.

https://www.fineformcoaching.com/post/should-you-weigh-yourself

MM1FitLife

Once every 3-weeks along with measurements. All in the morning.

cantorious

Every morning, after pee. Also measure waist in cm. End of the week I divide by 7 and make adjustments depending on goal

Treab123

I do it daily and record it if I lose weight or on my Monday check in. Allows me to see a consistent improvement and if I go up on the monday by tuesday usually gone back down lol.

Samtyldesley58

Do you find that it really does help 2 a day I am only asking as I do it once a week and have wondered about doing it daily.. As I feel it will help me evolve with what I have eaten or am I being too involved in it...

enzen7

I weigh in daily before I lay down to sleep. My weight might fluctuate up or down a bit depending on how good of a day I had or how much I had to eat/drink in the hours before I weigh myself. As long as the general trend is in the right direction a single bad day doesn't really matter. When you start to have a few bad days in a row you stop and reevaluate what you're been doing and make changes if they need to be made to keep the progress going.

durhammfp

1x/day

Karen_can_do_this

Every morning after I pee. It helps me learn about ups and downs, what to expect after certain meals, health issues etc

emalethmoon

Every single morning, before I eat but after I pee. If I slack on weigh-ins, I begin to gain.

sarebearr

I used to weigh every morning, but am now weighing every week. That way I don't get hung up on day to day changes from water weight and such. Works for me! I lost 2.2 lbs this week and I'm sooo excited about it. I fear if I had weighed in every dayI wouldn't be as excited about such small changes.

Dootzy1

I weigh twice a week, in the a.m. So, I look at what I consider my tentative weight on Wed. and then see where it is on Friday or Saturday morning. It keeps me accountable in maintenance.

JenW70503

Every morning and every night. It keeps me on track.

drkuhl2017

Every morning, on an empty bladder. I wear the same type of clothes every weigh-in: a tank top and athletic capris. I only officially log it on Sunday mornings, though. I like to see my weight every day, though, so I can see the fluctuations based on my food choices, the amount of water I drank, and exercise.

charmmeth

Every morning after peeing, and I have programmed a spreadsheet that calculates BMI and my weight in lbs and also draws me a graph! When I first started trying to lose weight I logged morning and evening, and even now I will often get on the scales before I go to bed, but I don't log that.

E_Val

I do weigh in once a month. Don't want to do it every week or every day. It just makes me upset.

Sand_TIger

Daily and sometimes before bed just so I can see what the difference is overnight. But I watch trends. Without clothes of course, and after bathroom.

brenn24179

once a day in the morning, dont want 10 or 20 pounds to creep back on me like it has before.

m3lodym4ker

Daily because, like others have said, it helps me understand my body's patterns. But I also calculate a weekly average after Saturday weigh-in. I use that to make sure I'm meeting my weekly goals. I take measurements and pictures at end of each month.