The scale

bfriend916

According the scale I'm down 9.8 lbs ! I need to stop weighing myself so much any suggestions

Lietchi

I'm not sure why you think you should weigh yourself less frequently.
But alternatives are measuring yourself, using non stretchy clothes as a reference to see if they are fitting more loosely and taking progress pictures.

skellyc74

I weigh myself every day, I'm not obsessed with the scales it's a set of numbers and data I use to help me meet my goals. How much do you need to lose. How long has it taken you to lose the 9lbs.

csplatt

Some people benefit from seeing daily weight fluctuations and others don’t. This morning for example my weight was up over 2 lb but I went to a party a day and a half ago, indulged, had alcohol, etc. Plus it’s creeping up on a specific time in my hormonal cycle. So I don’t care. I know it’s not fat. Other people weigh themselves less to avoid moments like that. No one size fits all.

AnnPT77

If you feel like weighing yourself on your current schedule is making you more anxious or obsessive, or encouraging you to use too-extreme diet/exercise strategies, then maybe weighing less often would be a good plan.

But there's nothing wrong with weighing daily, as long as it's not psychologically problematic for you in some way. (I've done it for years, even before trying to lose weight, because I'm a data geek in this and other ways, but I experience zero stress about it. These days, I put my daily weight into a weight trending app**, which helps me understand my long-term weight patterns. I even weigh more than once in a day occasionally, such as to check how much fluid weight I've lost during a longer bike ride, in order to adjust hydration strategies.)

If you do weigh often, just don't expect every weigh-in to be a loss. Our bodies can be 60%+ water, and that water weight will fluctuation by several pounds from one day to the next for most people, while even fast fat loss is a few gradual ounces per day. Variation in digestive contents (on the way to becoming waste) are another factor, in addition to water retention changes, that can play peek-a-boo with fat loss on the scale. Expect that. Real life successful long-term weight loss is bumpy/jumpy ups and downs in body weight, with a gradual downward trend in the highs/lows of the jumps/bumps, when observed over at least several weeks.

Some outside experts say you shouldn't weigh daily because they anticipate the psychological pitfalls, but those don't happen for everyone.

** Example trending apps are Happy Scale for Apple iOS, Libra for Android, Trendweight with a free Fitbit account (don't need a device), Trendweight on the web . . . and there are probably others. They aren't a magic crystal ball that reveals "truth". The simply apply statistics to smooth out some of the bumps/jumps and make an educated guess about the longer term trends. Even they can mislead sometimes, so don't assume what they say is gospel.