How often do you weigh?

NJsemple
NJsemple Posts: 41 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I used to weigh weekly but find it so much better now weighing the last Saturday of every month. I just wondered what everyone’s preference was 😃
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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Typically twice per week and take the average...usually Wednesday and Thursday. I'm an 8ish year maintainer who now needs to drop the remaining 10 Lbs or so of my COVID 20ish.
  • Lhenderson923
    Lhenderson923 Posts: 102 Member
    I weigh weekly because the fluctuations are interesting to me. In the past I couldn’t do that because they would throw me off. I only record my weight on Wednesdays though.
  • penguinmama87
    penguinmama87 Posts: 1,155 Member
    I weigh weekly on Friday, first thing in the morning. It's a good system for me and I wouldn't be surprised if it continues to make sense once I'm maintaining.
  • scarlett_k
    scarlett_k Posts: 812 Member
    Daily for the most part
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Daily suits me.
    Keeping a casual eye on my weight trend is an essential tool for me for long term maintenance without food logging.
    Takes seconds, not at all stressful for me as I regard it as data, doesn't make or break my day!

    Glad you have found what works for you OP.
  • Mellouk89
    Mellouk89 Posts: 469 Member
    In the morning before I eat, 2-3 times a week. My weight stats mostly the same.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,736 Member
    Once a week after my morning walk and shower and then log once a month by averaging out the 4 or 5 weeks.
  • NJsemple
    NJsemple Posts: 41 Member
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    Daily and watch the trend.

    I’ve always thought that if you weigh less frequently you have less idea of your true weight trend since there are so many uncontrollable factors affecting weight; water, digestive contents, hormonal fluctuation etc and no way to know how many of those are in play on any specific day.

    If you weigh on a monthly or weekly basis you might catch a ‘high day’ and feel discouraged when, in fact, you’re perfectly on track. 🤷‍♀️

    That’s why I had to go monthly for some reason during the month on one weigh in I always gain anything up to 5lb but it sorts it’s self over the month that’s why I changed
  • Withywarlock
    Withywarlock Posts: 4 Member
    edited May 2021
    I weigh myself depending entirely on when I've messed up with my meal plan for the day/week, and get frustrated by the numbers not shifting or creeping up. The more I gain, the more I weigh myself. It's a rather strange obsession, but then aren't all obsessions?

    But as I've been doing well recently I'm weighing myself less, and finding my weight's going down. ^^
  • davew0000
    davew0000 Posts: 125 Member
    Daily. Then I pay attention to my weekly average. More data and a more stable trend
  • Janatki
    Janatki Posts: 730 Member
    Weekly here! Wednesday’s & sometimes on a Saturday morning - in an effort to stay focused as I could easily overeat at a weekend!
  • rewair
    rewair Posts: 2 Member
    If you're just starting out you should weigh every day, ideally in the morning. This way you can figure out how many calories you need for loss, maintenance etc... If you do this you will know exactly how many calories you need after a month or so. Write it down along side your calorie intake. OT- for newbies to this. I find that BMR calculators are usually too high. For example. My weight, height, activity level on calculators say I need 2700 calories a day to maintain, my actual maintenance calories are 2200 to 2300. BMR calculators are a reference point, nothing more.
  • wunderkindking
    wunderkindking Posts: 1,615 Member
    Heh. Calorie calculators are pretty consistently about 300 calories too LOW for me. Definitely need to do some experimentation to figure out what exactly your calorie needs are. That said, so many things impact your daily energy use and it is so inconsistent day to day (for most) that even then you're going to be doing an awful lot of rough estimating and guessing for quite a long while.

    And that's ok.
  • Bella_Figura
    Bella_Figura Posts: 4,322 Member
    Daily, but only because I'm confident that my mood won't be affected by what I see on the scale. I'm a data geek, so I like to track the daily fluctuations, to see the impact of different foods/activities/sodium intake etc on my daily weight. It makes me comfortable with seeing my weight go up as well as down, as is only natural. If I knew my mood and motivation were affected by the result I'd switch to weekly or even monthly weighing, because I wouln't want the daily mood swings.
  • Janatki
    Janatki Posts: 730 Member
    rewair wrote: »
    If you're just starting out you should weigh every day, ideally in the morning. This way you can figure out how many calories you need for loss, maintenance etc... If you do this you will know exactly how many calories you need after a month or so. Write it down along side your calorie intake. OT- for newbies to this. I find that BMR calculators are usually too high. For example. My weight, height, activity level on calculators say I need 2700 calories a day to maintain, my actual maintenance calories are 2200 to 2300. BMR calculators are a reference point, nothing more.

    This is interesting as a relative newbie... but for me, I would find the daily weigh ins too stressful... and the fluctuations potentially triggering to give up! I know that daily fluctuations are part & parcel of biology, but I get (yes, ridiculously!) upset when the scale moves back up! 🥴🙄🤪

  • brenn24179
    brenn24179 Posts: 2,144 Member
    daily works for me for last 2 years, before I woud gain as much as 20 lbs and I didnt weigh regulary so it lets me see where I am at, not burying my head in the sand.
  • Sonicmojo
    Sonicmojo Posts: 13 Member
    I recently nabbed a new scale and have been going daily for two weeks (which is very new for me). The trends are astounding once I found an accurate scale. The first shock was to see I was about 8 pounds heavier than the old mechnical scale I had been using. Then the next data point is that my weight has been steadily increasing even after logging every single thing in MFP ( to my current calculated daily max of exactly 1934).

    For a guy that is 202 pounds - I should be seeing some slow loss at this daily cal amount. I am doing at least 30 mins of exercise of some sort twice per day but I do not understand what is happening - it makes no sense.
  • Sonicmojo
    Sonicmojo Posts: 13 Member
    rewair wrote: »
    OT- for newbies to this. I find that BMR calculators are usually too high. For example. My weight, height, activity level on calculators say I need 2700 calories a day to maintain, my actual maintenance calories are 2200 to 2300. BMR calculators are a reference point, nothing more.

    True that. I have been messing around with a variety of online calculators for the last year or so and have found (After I got a new accurate scale) that my "maintenance" cals are drastically lower than any online calculator. Almost every online one I found pointed me to somewhere around 2300 (with exercise 3 days a week) but my own data here shows it to be more like 2050.

    These online cals do not specify what constitutes "exercise" either. There is a vast difference in walking around the neighborhood listening to Spotify vs spending an hour in a gym lifting hard steel.

    Cheers

    Sonic.
  • wunderkindking
    wunderkindking Posts: 1,615 Member
    Sonicmojo wrote: »
    rewair wrote: »
    OT- for newbies to this. I find that BMR calculators are usually too high. For example. My weight, height, activity level on calculators say I need 2700 calories a day to maintain, my actual maintenance calories are 2200 to 2300. BMR calculators are a reference point, nothing more.

    True that. I have been messing around with a variety of online calculators for the last year or so and have found (After I got a new accurate scale) that my "maintenance" cals are drastically lower than any online calculator. Almost every online one I found pointed me to somewhere around 2300 (with exercise 3 days a week) but my own data here shows it to be more like 2050.

    These online cals do not specify what constitutes "exercise" either. There is a vast difference in walking around the neighborhood listening to Spotify vs spending an hour in a gym lifting hard steel.

    Cheers

    Sonic.

    Well. No. Lifting weights doesn't actually burn all that many calories. Neither does walking.
  • brtgl
    brtgl Posts: 130 Member
    I weigh daily. The more data, the better.

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