How often to you weigh in and record weight?

ummyasminah

I step on the scale every morning, but I don't let fluctuations bother me. My sister is a personal trainer and told me about water weight and different food doing different things to your body. I only record my weight once a week. My sister even suggests every two weeks. If I do really well all week, and eat extra calories on the night before I weigh in, the scale will most likely show extra ounces or even pounds. But weighing in regularly keeps me on track and lets me know what foods work and do not work for weight loss.

^This.

seltzermint555

I'm a daily weigher but I only compare today's weight with that of the same day last week. Then I get a better picture of what's going on. The National Weight Loss Registery says 83% of those who have kept the weight off for at least 5 years are daily weighers.

I plan to do this. Even if I someday reach my end goal and enter maintenance and even stop logging (MAYBE)...I'll still weigh every day or at least several times a week.

My boss is in her 50s and has always maintained what I'd call a very average, nice weight and wears about a size 10 or 12. She doesn't diet but she weighs herself every AM and reins herself in when she has gained a pound or two. I'd like to be like that one day.

Siansonea

I weigh every day, but only record when there's a drop, or a gain that lasts more than a day or two. I know that weight fluctuates ± a few pounds from day to day, so I don't clutter my graph with all those meaningless fluctuations. I know that my current weight is really the midpoint of a range, rather than a single value that I weigh at all times of the day, every day. Too much mass coming and going for that to be the case. :bigsmile:

kayjane92

Every Friday, I'll be weighing myself.

TheVimFuego

July, and this year I'm late.

But I am comfortably in extra slim work shirts so who gives a monkey's what the number is?