How often do you log your weight?
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I weigh and record daily in Excel. Take weekly averages and set trendline to moving average, period of 2 weeks. This helps to visualize the overall trend instead of seeing all of the [sometimes] wide daily fluctuations. I post to MFP only when I have seen a stable decrease for a few days.0
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Daily, it is all great information for you. You can go back and look at the patterns of what types of food you ate that caused the gains, especially if you gain for a few days in a row. Could be sodium, high fat etc. Anyways, it's all data that can aid you in the future. If you use gains as a positive instead of a negative, then you will not be hard on yourself!
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Daily, it is all great information for you. You can go back and look at the patterns of what types of food you ate that caused the gains, especially if you gain for a few days in a row. Could be sodium, high fat etc. Anyways, it's all data that can aid you in the future. If you use gains as a positive instead of a negative, then you will not be hard on yourself!
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Yes but your body fluctuates so much on a daily basis ....
Mine especially with water weight... So I am up two down two up one down two... And it's all water fluctuation so there isn't some big mystery to track.0 -
Weigh every day but log once a week.0
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I get on the scale almost every morning but I log every 7-10 days - unless I don't lose or if I gain. I just keep going until I have at least a one pound loss. Right now I've gained - not logging that - nope. The only time I've logged a gain is if I was AWOL from MFP and basically starting again.0
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Pretty much every day. And I log gains and losses.
It helps keep me in touch with what the things I am eating are doing to my body and, TBH, seeing the line not just moving down at every weigh in keeps me sane.
I know that some days I may be up (like the day after Chinese food which reminds me to keep an eye on my sodium) and that my TOM causes some water gain. That the days after a hard workout may be up a bit because I have sore muscles. Having the line wiggle up and down reminds me that weight loss isn't linear and that a few up days (when exercise or TOM aren't involved) means that I have to revisit my menus because something isn't what it seems to be.
As I progress along my weight loss journey, this may change but for now, it's working for me.
ETA: I weigh./log the same time every day, first thing in the morning. I may step on the scale at the end of the day, mainly to oggle at how one's weight can fluctuate so much over the course of a day.0 -
I weigh on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I log whatever the scale says on Friday.0
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I weigh 2x a day, but I only log all-time lows.0
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I weigh myself twice a week, on Sundays and Thursdays, and log my weight once a week, gain or loss, after the Thursday weigh-in. If I show a big loss on Sunday (more than 1lb) I will log Sunday's weight, too, only because I get so excited and it motivates me when I look at my phone!0
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I weigh myself daily and only record my weight if I have a loss... It sounds silly, but I know I am making progress that way and I don't worry when I have a gains or steady weight in between because I know my weight fluctuates...0
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I weigh daily and log any change (positive or negative)
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Daily, it is all great information for you. You can go back and look at the patterns of what types of food you ate that caused the gains, especially if you gain for a few days in a row. Could be sodium, high fat etc. Anyways, it's all data that can aid you in the future. If you use gains as a positive instead of a negative, then you will not be hard on yourself!
This!
Yes but your body fluctuates so much on a daily basis ....
Mine especially with water weight... So I am up two down two up one down two... And it's all water fluctuation so there isn't some big mystery to track.
That may be the case for you, but not necessarily everybody. If my weight is fluctuating/increasing that much, I can typically look at my food diary and figure out why (too much sodium or too much fat or whatever). I'm in the losing mode now, so I expect the weight to decrease daily. By keeping a close eye on things and not going over by too much on my macros, I can pretty much guarantee this will happen. I'd just rather know what's going on, so I can address it ASAP, rather than wait a week or a month or 3 months. Once I get to maintenance, I do expect my weight will go up and down some, based on where I am in my cycle, but I'd still want to know what's going on each day, so I can see if there's a weight gain pattern that isn't attributed to my TOM and address it before it gets out of control.0 -
Daily, it is all great information for you. You can go back and look at the patterns of what types of food you ate that caused the gains, especially if you gain for a few days in a row. Could be sodium, high fat etc. Anyways, it's all data that can aid you in the future. If you use gains as a positive instead of a negative, then you will not be hard on yourself!
This!
Yes but your body fluctuates so much on a daily basis ....
Mine especially with water weight... So I am up two down two up one down two... And it's all water fluctuation so there isn't some big mystery to track.
That may be the case for you, but not necessarily everybody. If my weight is fluctuating/increasing that much, I can typically look at my food diary and figure out why (too much sodium or too much fat or whatever). I'm in the losing mode now, so I expect the weight to decrease daily. By keeping a close eye on things and not going over by too much on my macros, I can pretty much guarantee this will happen. I'd just rather know what's going on, so I can address it ASAP, rather than wait a week or a month or 3 months. Once I get to maintenance, I do expect my weight will go up and down some, based on where I am in my cycle, but I'd still want to know what's going on each day, so I can see if there's a weight gain pattern that isn't attributed to my TOM and address it before it gets out of control.
But any actual gain like that on a daily basis is going to be 99% of the time attributed to water... It is highly unlikely to gain 2 pounds of fat over night... The sheer number of calories you'd have to eat in one day two gain two pounds of fat over night is almost impossible....0 -
Daily, it is all great information for you. You can go back and look at the patterns of what types of food you ate that caused the gains, especially if you gain for a few days in a row. Could be sodium, high fat etc. Anyways, it's all data that can aid you in the future. If you use gains as a positive instead of a negative, then you will not be hard on yourself!
This!
Yes but your body fluctuates so much on a daily basis ....
Mine especially with water weight... So I am up two down two up one down two... And it's all water fluctuation so there isn't some big mystery to track.
That may be the case for you, but not necessarily everybody. If my weight is fluctuating/increasing that much, I can typically look at my food diary and figure out why (too much sodium or too much fat or whatever). I'm in the losing mode now, so I expect the weight to decrease daily. By keeping a close eye on things and not going over by too much on my macros, I can pretty much guarantee this will happen. I'd just rather know what's going on, so I can address it ASAP, rather than wait a week or a month or 3 months. Once I get to maintenance, I do expect my weight will go up and down some, based on where I am in my cycle, but I'd still want to know what's going on each day, so I can see if there's a weight gain pattern that isn't attributed to my TOM and address it before it gets out of control.
And yes .. If looking at your food indicates you had too much sodium then that's water weight and not an actual gain.....0 -
Daily, it is all great information for you. You can go back and look at the patterns of what types of food you ate that caused the gains, especially if you gain for a few days in a row. Could be sodium, high fat etc. Anyways, it's all data that can aid you in the future. If you use gains as a positive instead of a negative, then you will not be hard on yourself!
This!
Yes but your body fluctuates so much on a daily basis ....
Mine especially with water weight... So I am up two down two up one down two... And it's all water fluctuation so there isn't some big mystery to track.
That may be the case for you, but not necessarily everybody. If my weight is fluctuating/increasing that much, I can typically look at my food diary and figure out why (too much sodium or too much fat or whatever). I'm in the losing mode now, so I expect the weight to decrease daily. By keeping a close eye on things and not going over by too much on my macros, I can pretty much guarantee this will happen. I'd just rather know what's going on, so I can address it ASAP, rather than wait a week or a month or 3 months. Once I get to maintenance, I do expect my weight will go up and down some, based on where I am in my cycle, but I'd still want to know what's going on each day, so I can see if there's a weight gain pattern that isn't attributed to my TOM and address it before it gets out of control.
But any actual gain like that on a daily basis is going to be 99% of the time attributed to water retention.... It is highly unlikely to gain 2 pounds of fat over night... The sheer number of calories you'd have to eat in one day two gain two pounds of fat over night is almost impossible....0 -
I weigh myself every morning when I first wake up. All my weigh ins are automatically logged since I use the Fitbit Aria scale. The only numbers I really pay attention to are usually Sunday's. Once a week I check to see how I did. My weight loss has not been in significant amounts so I know that I won't see big losses. Also helps me keep track of what and how much I am eating.0
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Rarely now since I've hit my goal.0
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Weigh and log daily, gains and losses.0
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I resist the urge to weight myself constantly and just weigh myself at the beginning of each month. The larger number is more encouraging to me and I am easily discouraged if I see no improvement.0
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I'm an accountant and I like numbers, so you might have to take this with a grain of salt...
I weigh daily, and I record that in a spreadsheet that I have set up. From that data I calculate a 7-day moving average of my daily weights and that is what I pay most attention to -- is it steady or trending down. For me, the 7 day average rarely moves up unless I haven't been following my program...........................
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Similar to this - I find the scales draw me like a magnet first thing in the morning - weight is recorded on a graph in a Photoshop document and compared to my targeted loss. I also record every week in a spreadsheet so that my BMI, BMR and TDEE can be calculated accurately.
............. and yes I record when I gain too - otherwise it is like cheating and not logging food that you eat during the day.0 -
I weigh myself daily, right after I go to the bathroom first thing in the morning. I do it the same way each time. I only record my weight once a week in the app though, usually on Saturday mornings. Seeing it daily for me is a good reminder that even though I was good the day before my weight can still go up. Especially if I eat something with too much salt, which does happen on occassion.0
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I weigh daily and log any change (positive or negative)
keeps me focused
I've decided this is what I'm going to do as well. Until today I would weigh daily but only log a loss... then wonder why I would plateau for a month + at a time... I think with logging my weigh in every day I will be able to see what I've had the day before and how/what's affecting me (ie water retention, etc)...0 -
I log my weight around every two weeks or so.0
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Here's my rule: if the number on the scale will affect your motivation negatively, weigh less often. If it motivates you positively regardless of loss or gain, weigh in as often as you like. I have an Aria FitBit scale that I LOVE and I weigh in every day so it posts automatically to MFP every day. If the scale says even one ounce more than the day before, I work extra hard that day. If the scale goes down, I work extra hard that day.
My point is, *kitten* the scale, WORK HARD EVERY DAY! Even on rest day, work hard to watch what you eat. Put in the work, get the results.0 -
I step on the scale every single day. All day long if I could. I know that isn't the thing to do. I log on Sunday mornings.0
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I'm an accountant and I like numbers, so you might have to take this with a grain of salt...
I weigh daily, and I record that in a spreadsheet that I have set up. From that data I calculate a 7-day moving average of my daily weights and that is what I pay most attention to -- is it steady or trending down. For me, the 7 day average rarely moves up unless I haven't been following my program.
I record my Sunday weight in MFP just so that I have something in here for reports (and so that I can get pats on the back from my friends). And yeah, if it's up for the week I still record it -- of COURSE I do. It's just information, and if I have crappy information, then I can't make decisions about what's working and what isn't. Garbage in, garbage out and all that.
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It's good to know I am not alone! I do the same thing, and get teased about it constantly! I have all kinds if charts and graphs to go along with my data. Hee hee...stats geek I am!
Yup, me too! I had a spreadsheet with an input tab and a pivot table. I also log my daily weight in MFP--more data points the better! It shows the pattern of losses and gains. I think I would get more discouraged if I only logged one day/week because if it happens to fluctuate up on my log day, I wouldn't know about all the days it was down before.0 -
I resist the urge to weight myself constantly and just weigh myself at the beginning of each month. The larger number is more encouraging to me and I am easily discouraged if I see no improvement.
That's exactly how I am too.... Event though I know those little fluctuations are not a actually fat gain I still get discouraged if I weigh daily and am up....0 -
Weigh daily, try to log on Fridays. Will post ups but hopefully most will be down.0
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honestly I used to be OBSESSED with the scale! Especially when I first started to get healthy and was trying to lose weight. I eventually learned to not weigh myself more than once every 10 days or more because if the number on the scale didn't reflect what I was hoping to see I would immediately get discouraged, which is BAD. As our bodies start to change we are losing fat but gaining muscle, muscle weighs more than fat and the scale doesn't reflect those PHYSICAL changes. So you NEED to take your measurements every two weeks or at least once a month. so when the scale doesn't budge but you have lost inches you will KNOW that you ARE making progress. Screw the dang scale it's a filthy liar :-) I've been on my fitness journey for over a year now and I have learned so much in the process. you can always message me for any other questions or concerns. !0
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Every Monday morning.0
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