Should I update my weight daily?

1reneeski

Hi

I weight myself every morning, and every night. It keeps me grounded, and I just need to, lol.
I did my weight update yesterday, Friday on here, so do I update it as I lose, or just once a week?

Thanks : )

onefortyone

I usually update mine each time I reach a new low, but honestly it's 100% up to you! If you want a true picture of all the ups and downs over time, and it won't hurt you emotionally, definitely log each day! I weigh almost every day on the Wii Fit so that thing has the ugly up-and-down graph. I want my MFP graph to be smooth sailing

nosebag1212

once a week tbh, weight fluctuates daily and it can drive you mad

Stormykitty

I agree it's a personal choice. However, I prefer the once a week due my issues with edema. It flips me out when I used to weigh daily and see I went up 5-6lbs but then I was more "water logged" then normal.

Canuname

I personally like 1 to 2 times a week. Weight changes to much day to day to track every day. I think it would really zap my motivation if I watched it fluctuate so much, but as with everything having to do with weight loss, it is a personal preference and your milage may vary.

MscGray

I wouldn't personally recommend it...your body's water retention will vary through out the day, and through out the week and month. But as previously stated it is a personal decision....I would drive myself mad if I tried to track weight every day, seeing all the fluctuations. I may weigh daily but made a pact to only update once a week. You may end up being too harsh on yourself if you see it raise from one day to the next.

amwbox

I try not to weigh in daily, as it just shows oscillations up and down that are body function related, as opposed to actual fat loss.

Once a week is best bet, probably.

zyxst

I update daily. Do what works for you.

heybales

So weighing 2 x daily can keep you grounded, lets you see how invalid the weight is when weighing frequently because you can see all the fluctuations that can happen.

But if it starts stressing you out, or making you think a 2 lb gain through the day must be handled by eating even less the next day - then that's going to screw up your mind, stress, hormones, and weight loss.
In that case don't do it.

But you do need a valid weigh in day, and always inputting numbers up and down will cause MFP to constantly report each loss to your friends, and while they congrat you on each 1 lb loss, you know you actually lost that 1 after gaining 2 you logged that did not report of course.
So that could get discouraging too.

Suggest you pick at least 1 valid weigh-in day - because not all are valid as data points precisely because of the normal water weight fluctuations.

Morning after rest day eating normal sodium levels (not higher or lower), and not sore from last workout (retaining water).

Anything other than that is just noise, and you need a good month to see a direction with a bunch of noise.

nikprot

I weigh myself every day because I want to know what's going on... I know it's not right but I feel better this way. Anyway...as I told you I weigh myself every day but I log in here once a week. Every Saturday.

evabugsmamaw

I personally weigh myself every night before I go to bed and every morning when I get up. BELIEVE me it drives me nuts when the scale says that I have gained a couple of lbs. I keep complaining to my husband but he says that it's normal for my body weight to go up and down. So back to your question as to whether add your weight every time you weigh your self?

I don't, I only add it when I have lost weight, if I were to add my weight all the time my scale would look like a EKG monitor.

megsmom2

You're going to drive yourself nuts doing that. Weigh once a week at the most! Your weight can vary wildly just over the course of a day. Don't obsess about an essentially meaningless number...go for the long term trend instead.

1reneeski

Oh my gosh, you guys are all so sweet for answering. Thank you so much! I will log on Fridays, like I started yesterday. Last
night I felt really full, and fat LOL, but this morning I was down like .4 so if I went by how I felt last night, I would of guessed I gained. This proves everyones point about the body fluctuating (hope I spelled that right), and I will just do once a week.

Everyone is so helpful on here!

Thank you so much! Renee : )

kristenveganvixen

No. I think once a week is quite a lot, and once a month is better. If you're a female keep a note of where in your cycle you are when weighing too, you can gain a couple of pounds when you're premenstrual then lose something like 7lbs the week of your period so it can give flukey readings over the space of just a week.

nixxthirteen

My Libra app sends me a reminder every morning to weigh myself. It keeps a nice little graph and everything. So I weigh myself every morning right after I get up and pee, always in the same type of clothing.

Weighing daily doesn't stress me out because I'm always prepared to see a bit of fluctuation. I do, however, only update my weight on MFP if it's a new "record" low hah.

allotmentgardener

I may hop on and off the scales throughout the week but I only log on a friday morning.

eslcity

I personally check my weight every morning... after the bathroom and before breakfast... however, I only log it in once a week...

buzzardsrule

I weigh myself every morning and log daily. I prefer to know what's going on good or bad.

Fattackler2013

Daily is too often. In my opinion you should weigh yourself once every week or two because you're not going to get an accurate reading by doing it daily and it can get you down if you don't see what you'd like to see.

_L_A_

I weigh myself every day, honestly just because I'm nosy! I log my weight every monday morning, although as I'm only aiming to lose 1lb a week it's easy for me to just have an unlucky upwards fluctuation on that day, so really it'd be better to log my weight once a month, then I'd be able to see if the trend over the 4 weeks has been going down. It's up to you really, but I've always thought there's not much point to logging every day as weight fluctuates so much day by day it's not always a realistic picture of what your weight is, I'd focus more on the long term trend and not the exact weight, the less often you log the more you'll focus on this, although I can't talk because I log once a week

meganmoore112

I only enter losses here. I log my daily weights in an app that makes cool graphs and keeps statistics.

rpaxton516

Weight associated with my cycle....

That would totally be the reason why I'm back to my original weight from three weeks ago. I've been looking for the answer and getting really mad about why I'm not down *even more* after all the work I've done in the garden the past two days. Thank you so much for that explanation, kristenveganv!

I try to weigh myself every morning. For a good long while there I was consistently losing. I was like "I'm never going to see that ugly number again!" then it returned yesterday after I didn't do anything wrong diet-wise or exercise-wise.

lucydavey75

I may take a sneaky peek every other day but the only one that counts is Friday Mornings,which I log on here xx

AglaeaC

I weigh myself every morning. The fluctuation is a good reminder that it's just a number; water, hormones, what I ate, and a lot of other things influence my weight. It keeps me grounded.

Weighing myself once a week would be really annoying, if it happened that I on the day before/after would have weighed less, but since I wouldn't know that I'd work myself up over nothing. You're not supposed to lose too much at once and 500 g is small enough to be explained by said fluctuations in water etc. contents and once weekly weigh-ins could efficiently mask what's going on behind the curtain so to speak.

ramyad1

I get depressed and eat more, emotional eater, when my weight fluctuates. I'm losing weight to reduce belly size, not to reduce how heavy I am. I would not mind if I weighed 100's of kilos, as long as I was trim without a pot belly :-)

So, I measure my body size and work out body fat % versus what my weight as. But, as all of MFP and dieting is incorrectly about body weight, I still measure once a week.

MFP should have an inch tracker as I know what waist/hip ratio and chest size I would like to be.

AglaeaC

MFP should have an inch tracker as I know what waist/hip ratio and chest size I would like to be.

What is it in the Check-In that you're tracking if not inches?

riffraff2112

Probably no 'correct' answer. Do what works for you, and keeps you 'on-task'. It is real important, as has been said here many time, to know that weight loss isn't linear. If you accept that, frequency of weigh ins is a personal choice.

I record quite often in a personal journal, I expect variations and am totally prepared mentally to deal with them. Having seen peaks and valleys many times in the first few weeks, I learned to expect them and knew not to worry. I am only recording losses in MFP to stop annoying my friends with posts telling my friends that I lost one tenth of a pound.

I actually am afraid to wait too long between weigh ins for a very strange reason.........I can live with day-to-day fluctuations but I am not sure how I would handle waiting two weeks before weigh ins, and finding out I didn't lose weight. That could sure be discouraging, thinking about how hard I tried, all the exercise I got, all the dedication, and see no results.

This is a common thread for a good reason, almost everyone on MFP has an opinion on it, and it is hard to disagree with everything I read above! Just keep trying, and do what works for you.

Good luck

Sf0rza

I weight every day before breakfast, and enter it into the Libra app. I now have a lovely graph with a trend line that shows roughly how quickly I might reach my next goal or mini-goal. In the past, I never ever weighed myself, and I find that doing it daily is actually easier. I'm getting to understand how weight fluctuates up and down. It's one more piece of the puzzle, and it fits well with tracking daily calories.

kenthepainter

I log on Friday morning, if I am 2 lbs less than the previous week I allow myself some indulgence over the weekend, I only want to lose 1 lb a week. I usually check my weight on Wednesday. I also track my weekly calories now, it helps me to stay in check and adjust my intake.