Best ways to weigh in. Weekly, fortnightly or monthly

tauera73

With weigh ins what do people find the best to keep them motivated and on track

gcminton

Daily.

It helps me get used to normal fluctuations and gives me more data points to plot a useful trend line.

Lietchi

gcminton wrote: »

Daily.

It helps me get used to normal fluctuations and gives me more data points to plot a useful trend line.

Yep, me too. I like my data, so I weigh every day.

Xiaolongbao

Me too. Daily for me but you need to find what works for you.

cwolfman13

Personal preference...there is no best. I weigh in 2-3 times per week usually.

HeidiCooksSupper

I'm a daily person because doing it first thing in the morning gets my attention for another day of mindful eating. Some folks like weekly, some monthly, whatever works for you.

Frequent times in the same day will drive you nuts since we all vary a good deal over the course of a day. On the other hand, the cheap electronic scales get a number in mind for the day and tend to round to it repeatedly even if you do something that will obviously change your weight a bit like poop. So, just get on the scale once a day, maximum.

Some folks never weigh and rely on measurements or how their jeans fit. The scale is just a number.

RunsWithBees

I weighed in weekly because I found the daily fluctuations maddening. Also, I skipped the weigh-in the week before my period due to extra pounds of retained water that would be gone the next week anyway.

sijomial

Daily is best for me to keep an eye on my weight trend, each day is just a data point.

Daily fluctuations are expected, normal and understood so don't cause me any emotional reactions.

Shortgirlrunning

Daily. I use the app Happy Scale (Libra is similar if you have Android) to track my weight and get a moving average. It’s a much more accurate picture of what my weight loss is than less frequent weighing.

slw37

There is no "best" way. Whatever suits you is the way to go. I weigh twice a week; daily fluctuations are too annoying.

sakurablossoms82

For my weight I check once a week usually, for my other measurements like losing cm around my hips and such it varies. Maybe later I will check my weight every 2 weeks or so but for now every week keeps me motivated as I have been losing weight. But when it goes slower then it does now I don't want to be bothered to much and start to feel demotivated.

Tonydevolanii

The best scale is the mirror

PAV8888

Once a day under the same/as similar as possible conditions to get the data points you need to input into an app or web site that uses an exponentially smoothed moving average (it gives more consideration to recent weigh ins as compared to a simple average formula) to focus you on your weight's longer term trend while smoothing expected transient daily weight fluctuations. Examples are the apps mentioned already, as well as trendweight.com, weightgrapher.com, or your own spreadsheet.

rraichetops

I'm working with a weight clinic. They suggested weekly weigh-ins to avoid a lot of the emotional ups and downs with daily weighing, especially from fluid shifts. I like it because it's often enough to keep me inspired and does avoid my hopes going up and down so much.

yirara

For weekly weigh ins you need 7x more time to collect sufficient datapoints to spot trends. If you don't have a lot to lose this could be discouranging as the following week the weight might be a bit higher due to a salty meal, then it's a hot day that might lead to water retention, then menstruation which is a killer with regards to water weight. Then you already have three weeks with 'no' weightloss. Well, in reality there probably is weight loss but it's masked by water retention at exactly the wrong time.

amusedmonkey

Daily for me. I love seeing the data, and the ups and downs don't bother me because daily weigh ins made me desensitized to them.

slimgirljo15

Daily, pretty much for the same reasons everyone above has said.

paperpudding

Always done it weekly myself

But thats me - no right one way fits all answer to this.

heavenandhell

Weekly, same day and roughly same time. I agree with other posters, weight is just one measure of progress. But there is no right or wrong, personal choice.
First battle I had to win was not making it only focus.

Jacq_qui

I have always, always, always done it weekly. But I changed to daily just over a week ago. It's much better and I'm not dreading stepping on the scales any more