Weighing in

jajenkins1978

I weigh once a week, on Sunday morning. Always before I eat or drink anything and on an empty bladder. I know that my weight fluctuates daily, so I don't want to get discouraged by seeing a higher number. That's why I way once a week. To me it's all about the final numbers on day # 7.

hipari

Daily, empty bladder (and bowels, if a movement happens there), naked. I use a trend weight app. I also belong to a weight loss challenge group here on MFP, my "official weigh-in" is on Sundays.

kedwards4267

It is the second thing I do every morning. After years of not wanting to even step on the scale, it helps keep me motivated.

Dee1Lutz

Every morning, and then I track online the same day each week. So I can watch patterns daily, but see the bigger picture with the weekly tracking online.

nanastaci2020

chadwheeler4422 wrote: »

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

I weigh daily, but I don't get emotionally tied to the result and know its not always going to show a drop. By weighing daily, I have a better understanding of what to expect based on my normal routine.

I have a Fitbit Aria scale, and that sends weighin data to Fitbit which is then sent to MFP. If I have a scenario where I expect the scale weight to be 'boosted' for a few days, such as for water weight gain for eating/drinking differently over the weekend, then I do sometimes choose to skip a day. Or I'll step on - to see the # - but not stay on long enough to let the # update to Fitbit.

Jacq_qui

Weekly, in the minority here. Some convincing opinions. I might switch....

AnnPT77

Every day, in the morning after the bathroom but before eating/drinking, wearing my watch and glasses. I've done that, and noted the result, for well over a decade (except when I'm away from home), even when I wasn't trying to lose or maintain weight. I could tell you what I weighed six years ago last Tuesday.

It's just data, potentially useful data, about my body's momentary relationship with gravity. There's no reason to have any particular emotional reaction to it, there's no reason it will be some kind of Big Surprise. (I may be up 5 pounds, but I've seen that disappear overnight before, too, so if I didn't eat literally 17,500 calories over maintenance - which I would've noticed - there's no way it's fat, so why worry?).

More granular data is helpful for identifying trends, such as gaining, losing, maintaining. Trends can be important, but they're not just one day's scale weight.

age_is_just_a_number

Twice daily. After bathroom in the morning (sometimes before and after — just to get a sense of the water difference). Right before bed in the evening. I like to keep the difference between the morning and evening no more than 3 pounds.

tequierosince06

Once a week. Every Saturday morning after I pee with no pants on. That’s my consistent weigh in. At one point I did weigh myself daily or at least 3x week just to see my fluctuations.

Leah_62803

I weight myself daily, every morning. I've done the weekly thing before but it always CRUSHES me if it's not what I was expecting/hoping for. I like seeing the pattern of my weight slowly going down. It's still frustrating when it doesn't seem to move though.

KrissDotCom

Depending on what kind of day ive had, ill weigh in daily and also sometimes at night.

MommaGemz

For me it has to be daily, in the morning, right after I pee. It sets the tone for the entire day and reminds me to stay on track.

lgfrie

I decided to take a break from daily weigh-ins around 5 weeks ago. I didn't get on a scale for almost a month, trusting my new habits developed over the past year, along with calorie logging. Last week I weighed in and discovered I'd gained 5.5 pounds - totally off base from where it should've been based on food measuring and logging. Something definitely went wrong! This is the first weight I've gained back at all in well over a year. Learned my lesson. I'm back to daily morning weigh-ins. They keep me engaged with the diet and hold me to account.

sgt1372

I've weighed myself every day for the past 8 yrs and I plan to continue to weigh myself every day until the day I die.

Doing do has allowed me to lose 40# from 190-200 down to 150-160 (twice over the past 8 yrs) and to maintain that weight loss "for good" over the past 4 yrs and hopefully for the rest of my life as long as I continue to do so.

The reason I failed to maintain my wt loss bet yrs 3-4 was because I renewed bad eating habits and stopped using MFP.

So, for me, controlling my weight requires BOTH weighing myself AND counting cals daily; one is no good w/o the other.

JintheSouth

I weigh myself daily, after using the bathroom and before eating anything. I log it into MFP every Monday.
When I first started my weight loss journey about 10 years ago, I weighed in daily but didn’t change my eating habits too much. It helped me realize Chinese food and eating out 4-5 times a week weren’t doing me any good. I credit daily weigh ins for helping me change my eating habits to cooking my own food and eating in moderation.
I had ditched the scale for a while, I think for a year or two. I hopped on the scale at the doctor and found I gained 7 pounds.
Weighing in daily keeps me in check. I find if I overdid it and packed on a pound or two, I tend to scale back a bit (no pun intended) on what I eat the next day or two.

jamloche

Every day. In the morning. After the bathroom, but before eating. I use a spreadsheet that calculates a weighted 7-day-average, and I consider that average to be my true weight. The actual scale numbers just give me the raw data I need to figure out the truth.

Still ... sometimes there are emotions, but such is life.

Ghenry1892

Every Monday morning, first thing when I wake up,