How often do YOU weigh in personally?

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  • Jacq_qui
    Jacq_qui Posts: 443 Member
    Daily. Fluctuations are just that. You won't know what they are though unless you have all the data. I think it's made me more mindful of my choices and understand the impacts they have, as well as understanding that the number on the scale is just that for the day. Tomorrow there's at least a very good chance it will be different, it's the trend that is important.
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    I weigh everyday and use Libra to track my trends. To me, my weight is the lowest number on the trend so it gives me peace of mind. It's kinda cool to see how and when my body weight fluctuates.
  • 1poundatax
    1poundatax Posts: 231 Member
    I weigh myself every day, multiple times a day. I am working on getting it down to just 1 or 2 times a day. I have learned not to be upset by fluctuations- I sometimes see fluctuations of several pounds throughout the day. By getting weighed daily I know what my overall trend is. When I am not weighing myself regularly is when I get out of control and gain weight. Even though I am obsessive about the scale I am developing a healthier attitude toward the fluctuations. I am definitely a work on progress LOL.
  • xodreamariexo
    xodreamariexo Posts: 63 Member
    Biweekly
  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,961 Member
    I like weighing every 1-3 days and tracking the trend in Libra.
  • DeterminedFee201426
    DeterminedFee201426 Posts: 859 Member
    once per week(every seven days)
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    Daily. I'm able to ignore the noise.
  • BarbaraHelen2013
    BarbaraHelen2013 Posts: 1,941 Member
    Daily. For me it’s the only way that works to keep me on track. It doesn’t necessarily change the course of my day’s food intake if it’s gone up a pound or so but if I don’t do it I feel like I’m floundering.

    If I weighed once a week I’d forever be wondering if any fluctuation was water, salt or actual weight gain/loss!
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    If I weighed once a week I’d forever be wondering if any fluctuation was water, salt or actual weight gain/loss!

    This--I much prefer knowing how a particular day fits into the week as a whole.

    I've also found that I have a tendency to start skipping the scale if I only weigh once a week -- I did this and found if I had a bad week I'd justify waiting until the next week so I could correct it with a better week, and for me that can easily spiral. I'm much better just weighing as part of my everyday morning routine.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,664 Member
    Daily, and put it in Libra.

    Zero stress about fluctuations: It's just a momentary snapshot of my body's relationship with gravity, and doesn't have any effect on my happiness, sense of self-worth, or feelings of success. (I've been weighing daily for over a decade, even when not trying to lose weight: I'm a data geek.)

    At this point, I've been calorie counting long enough that I don't even have much emotional investment in the default 7-day Libra trend. If I'm doing what I need to, I trust the process to land my bodyweight about where I expect, over the long haul. Even Libra is mistaken at times.

    Every once in a while I weigh midday, say to check post exercise whether my hyrdration was OK on a hot day, for example.

    People who feel stress about fluctuations probably shouldn't weigh daily, unless they think learning about their personal fluctuations' causes and durations would be calming.
  • sndral
    sndral Posts: 9 Member
    I weigh 1X per week on Sat. mornings. My weight loss goal is currently .5 lb.s per week, so I figure I won’t see any progress weighing more often than that, so why stress/depress myself by hopping on the scale obsessively? I suppose if I were less emotional about my weight and could approach the number on the scale more analytically and w/ curiosity weighing daily would make sense for me, but 1X per week is all the data I want at this point. In my mind my weight loss journey is a marathon, not a sprint, thus once a week is all I need to confirm I’m heading in the right direction weight wise and once I’m in maintenance, 1X per week should be enough to make sure I’m not gaining.
  • charmmeth
    charmmeth Posts: 936 Member
    sndral wrote: »
    I weigh 1X per week on Sat. mornings. My weight loss goal is currently .5 lb.s per week, so I figure I won’t see any progress weighing more often than that, so why stress/depress myself by hopping on the scale obsessively? I suppose if I were less emotional about my weight and could approach the number on the scale more analytically and w/ curiosity weighing daily would make sense for me, but 1X per week is all the data I want at this point. In my mind my weight loss journey is a marathon, not a sprint, thus once a week is all I need to confirm I’m heading in the right direction weight wise and once I’m in maintenance, 1X per week should be enough to make sure I’m not gaining.

    This obviously works well for you, which is great.

    I have been doing some weekly weigh-in threads here alongside my daily weigh-ins, and I found my weekly weigh-in showed a much much more erratic picture than than my daily weigh-in (plus trends). For instance one week back in early November I had daily weigh-ins of 77.1, 77.1, 77.7 - weigh-in thread day, 76.3, 76.6, 77.0, 76.5. Because I was weighing daily I knew that over that week my seven-day average was 76.90, down from 77.24 the previous week. so I could see the Tuesday weigh-in was an outlier. This is much more of an issue now I am close to goal (77.5 kg is the top of my maintenance range; like you, my goal weight loss goal is 0.5 lb per week), and I find it less stressful to know my trends based on daily weigh-ins than wondering why my weight was up that week.

    As I say, this is not at all to negate what is working for you.
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