How often do you weigh yourself?

Sarah0866

Hi everyone. I typically weigh in a couple of times a week but I'm trying to cut down since I feel I've become a little too focused on fluctuations. How often do you all weigh in, or what works best for you?

Thanks in advance

cmb67

I find the fluctuations help motivate me either way, so I do every other day.

simsburyjet

I have a scale at home, work and at the gym? So 3x a day.. pretty nuts
I am in a weight club we weigh in Friday mornings and if we gain even one ounce from the previous
friday we pay 2 dollars... I fluctuate up to 3lbs during the week

pzacher68

Once a week, on Wed/Thur. Alleviates the frustrations of fluctuations and plateaus are less stressful.

romancefan1983

This topic has been done alot. You should use the search option.

My answer though is that I weigh myself everyday but I know daily fluctuations happen and don't let day to day increases stress me out. Today, for example, was higher than yesterday but I indulged in a yummy DQ Blizzard so I expected it to increase. It's the week over week/month or month numbers that are key.

Collier78

About once a month...I take measurements about every other week though.

loriq41

Every day unless I know I ate alot of sodium and I cannot take the frustration...lol

CardiacKev28

Once a month

4daluvof_candice

Depends on how I feel..Once a week or once a month. I've enven went two months. I like to see how much I've lost in a month rather than a week. If Ive lost 4lbs that month, i'm good

Needachange84

MWF, just helps me keep on track.

FerretBuellerr

I weigh-in every week/every two weeks. I'll skip weigh-ins the week of my TOM and if I had heavy-eating events like a birthday party or family dinner on the weekend because I assume the number that will show is not reflective of the actual weight I have lost, since I'll most likely be retaining water from TOM and/or eating over my cal limit the few days before weighing-in.

Lives2Travel

Every day. Weight down = Motivation. Weight Up = Anger + Motivation. Either way works for me.

FreeToBreathe

Hi everyone. I typically weigh in a couple of times a week but I'm trying to cut down since I feel I've become a little too focused on fluctuations. How often do you all weigh in, or what works best for you?

Thanks in advance

hi girl! I started out weighing myself once a week ... for about a year ...and that worked great! Then, I got obsessed and was jumping on a few times every day. Now, I am finding a happy medium. If I'm curious, I'll jump on scale couple times a week, but I will NOT allow myself to record my weight @ MFP more than once a week...on 'official' weigh in day.

Needless to say, if you feel you're obsessing, cut off the daily weigh-ins. Focus on exercising and eating right and quit weighing for a week or a cpl. It's all a mind game and too many weigh-ins will screw up your mentality.

janelle615

Everyday.....its kind of bad...I really should weigh myself once or twice a week.

Julene64

I used to weigh daily but now I try to stick with just once a week because the fluctuations (as normal as I know they are) really bum me out sometimes. But on those mornings when I wake up with that "feeling lighter" sensation I will get on the scale just to see. And more often than not I'm rewarded with good results, albeit usually small results, but good ones.

msgreengenes

I weigh in daily. I don't worry about small fluctuations, and if I do see my weight go up a bit, it's just more motivation to push harder so that I can see a drop again soon.

keem88

i used to be an obsessive once a day or more weigher. with my recovery i am trying to stay away from the scale and only be weighed once a week when i go in to see the doctor

gbreault87

once a week either saturday or sunday morning after you relieve yourself and before you eat anything same time once a week will show progress and reduce discouargement.... weigh yourself naked too just like the day you were born

RipperSB

I am in maintenance now I used to weigh in once a week - Saturday morning after rising and visiting the bathroom. I would also get out the measuring tape every second week. Recently I read a post from an engineer who offered the idea that more data gets you more accuracy. People talk about fluctuations but if you only weigh in once a week, how do you know you're not weighing in on a "fluctuation"? It's all in how YOU process the information.

FitCurves444

I weigh myself every day. It helps me to keep track of the fluctuation because I want to observe patterns.

gobonas99

I weigh daily (usually...not if I'm out of town, obviously). I only log my weight on here once I have a loss that "sticks" for at least two days, but I log it into fitbit.com daily (I don't have any fitbit products, but I made a free account specifically for this purpose). I have my fitbit account tied to trendweight.com - trendweight is the most awesome thing EVER. We always say to not worry about daily fluxes, just the overall trend, but sometimes that overall trend is hard to see. Trendweight takes your actual daily weight logs (with all of the sometimes frustrating fluctuations), and smooths it out to an actual average trend line....it even has a "forecast" trend line that continues out so you can see where your weight is forecasted to go for the next few days into the future (down, up or maintain). :bigsmile:

metaphoria

Every few days but I only record it once a month.

sriley7682

Once a week.

saugonda1

i weigh in daily

Flex382

Once a week same time same place

sarabee0405

I do it a few times a day.. Not in an obsessive kind of way though, I like to see the fluctuations throughout the day, it's kind of interesting to see how different foods affect your body throughout the day.

I usually only record when there is a loss of at least 1lb.

mitch16

I weigh myself every day, usually several times just to understand the fluctuations... How much more do I weigh at night than I do in the morning? Before working out versus after? Before lunch versus after? What do my clothes weigh? You get the idea...

I only officially track once a week though--always the same morning of the week, naked, first thing after voiding.

juliezum

Rarely. It's definitely a personal thing. If you graphed my weight loss over a period of time, it would consistently go down, but it would be an up and down-down process. My weight fluctuates so much, that if I weigh my self daily, or even weekly-I get so discouraged. Everyone is different, but this is what works for me. I can feel that my clothes aren't as snug and I can feel that I have more energy and my knees don't hurt as much....that's good enough for me! Figure out what encourages you and do that.

dustinjohnson1331

Daily, and I have yearly spreadsheets with my weight/body fat back to 2010. I use an exponentially smoothed trend that I found via the Hacker's Diet. You can find it referenced here: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/signalnoise.html It really helps to see what your weight is actually doing and ignore daily water retention/sodium issues.

melissaka7

Every damn day. I like seeing the flucuations, but I do get frusturated sometimes.

ktcomplicated

I weigh myself everyday, mostly out of curiousity. I "officially" weigh in on Saturday mornings, though, and that's the weight I record every week.