My dirty little secret

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  • Annalisa_87
    Annalisa_87 Posts: 56 Member
    I try to weight myself once a week, on the same day, at the same time. This works best for me, because I can see the progress. I think I would go mad if I allowed myself to check everyday.
  • laceyfowler
    laceyfowler Posts: 127 Member
    I weigh in the morning when I get up, just keeps me aware.

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    I weigh myself once a day, every day - in the morning, before I've eaten or drank anything. I've found that this makes me more aware and more accountable. When I was weighing myself once a week, I was easily able to lie to myself for a week about allll the "little" slip-ups I was making... and they definitely added up!
    Actually, to be more accurate, I weight myself twice in the morning - I often bump my scale at some point during the day, and the instructions say that to ensure accuracy, weigh once without believing it, step off, and then weigh again for the true weight. They're usually the same, but when they aren't, I always use the second weight :-)
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    Hi, see above, I have one. I weight myself DAILY, sometimes 4 times a day. I know you're not supposed to, I know, I know, I know, I know it's all about how your clothes for and blah blah blah. For me I want to see that scale go down. And when it doesn't I literally give my scale the finger. Like it's really offended, I'm sure. Does anyone else do this? Or did it and stopped? Any advice? I'm trying. I'm only 5'2. I should only be 120 approximately, I'm so not even close to that number, like it's not even in my line of sight right now. Thank you :)

    Weighing daily isn't an issue unless you start to worry about every little movement. I think it's more a psychological/emotional thing to avoid weighing daily as it can get soul destroying if you see the weight go up 3 days in a row even if the long term trend is downwards.
  • Followingsea
    Followingsea Posts: 407 Member
    Sure.

    I don't honestly think there is an issue weighing yourself multiple times a day as long as you aren't correlating your worth or value with the number on the scale, and you aren't getting upset if the number isn't lower than it was the last time.
  • missomgitsica
    missomgitsica Posts: 496 Member
    I weigh myself every two weeks, and that's it. I'd rather make myself wait to see a bigger loss than weigh myself daily and get hung up on completely insignificant minor gains and losses that come and go.
  • rpmtnbkr
    rpmtnbkr Posts: 137 Member
    I also weigh every day. Yes it's frustrating at first when it stays the same or goes up.... arghhhh. When it does goes down it reaffirms I'm heading in the right direction. I find it really helpful when I've reached my goal and am in maintenance mode.... It let's me head off any gain by patterning an upward trend.

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