How often to weigh yourself

tmyers541

I used to weigh myself frequently but I've gotten to the point that I care more about how my clothes are fitting, so I weigh myself once every few weeks. I honestly forget to weigh myself.

RWTBR

It is best to weigh only once weekly, on the same day, same time of day, on the same scale, in the same clothing and shoes. That will give you a better picture of how you are doing, especially once you hit the point that your weight loss gets slower. None of the weight you have lost yet is fat, it's all water, and soon, you will only be losing 1 lb. a week. But, don't let that discourage you. Don't focus so much on the scale but on doing what you're supposed to do, every day.

albionjen

I weigh every morning. But I know that it is not that accurate as a measure of my recent diet. I can easily go up a couple of pounds for no reason, or lose a couple with no obvious effort. It is more helpful if you take a note of the trend over a month or more.

If it will stress you out to see gains, then weigh less often. If you don't care and are curious to see the random fluctuations then go ahead and weigh more often. Just be sure to have in mind that a couple pounds gain over night could not possibly reflect a gain in fat! (Unless you managed to overeat by at least 7000kcal, in which case I hope it was reeaaaly good food :laugh: )

JVClubs

i do it once a month to keep from obsessiing over it, which would drive me mad weighing myself once a week, or even every 2 weeks

sarafischbach9

When I was losing I weighed in 1 to 2 times a week. Over time my weigh ins are less frequent. I went from 1-2 times a week to 1 time a week to 1 time every two weeks. Now I'm weighing in 1-2 times a month. At what I'm at now ( maintaining or on a small deficit ) I can't see what's going on when I weigh myself more than 2 times a month. I weigh in 1 to 2 times a month and evaluate. I just weighed in a few days ago as an evaluation and found I can up my calories due to losing 1 lb in two weeks on 1700 calories.

JasonKnight85

I'm really compulsive, and a little obsessive so I usually step on the scale every day, but I only record once a week. I'd like to record less often, but lately the numbers have been very kind to me so I'm using it as motivation to keep on going!

ava_birkenhaus

I try to weigh myself as little as possible--once every two weeks. Before, when I weighed myself every day, seeing a loss made me feel better about cheating with junk food or skimping on exercise. Seeing a gain after you've worked your butt off can just get you down.

I have also been doing a great deal of weight training. This means that my body LOOKS different (my belly has shrunk, pants are about to fall off, I have newfound muscle definition, etc.), but the SCALE says I'm only three pounds lighter than I was a month ago. Just keep going, eat clean and healthy, try to stress less, win one victory at a time.

You just have to trust that eventually everything will fall into place--keep working!

Francl27

I weigh every day, but it doesn't phase me when I gain, I'm used to it by now.

keobooks

I weigh every day right now. I'm at that very early stage where I'm dropping almost a pound a day so it's fun. I think it's almost all water weight so I didn't freak when I suddenly gained a pound and a half this morning. So long as the general trend is downward, I don't mind little bumps up.

I also feel like I can get to know my body better by checking out what it's doing from day to day.

jrose1982

I think it depends on your attitude. I weigh every day and it goes up about as often as it goes down. Some times it will go up for several days in a row (I admit that gets a little worrisome) but then I'll drop the whole gain and a little more in one day. This sounds frustrating, but I think I've become desensitized to these fluctuations. By comparison, imagine if your weekly weigh-in lands on a day that your weight goes up. You can gain 1 or 2 lbs and it's just really depressing. But if you weigh every day, than you let it go because maybe you saw it drop to a new low some time in the middle of the week. Or you just learn to trust that you'll drop that weight faster than you gained it.

Try it a couple different ways see what works best for you.

RawIndian

I recommend weighing daily. Why because that is how you collect data about your body. If you log your calories accurately weighing everyday will help you understand the negative impact certain foods has your body.

My discovery was the impact of Salt on my body. I will gain 2 lbs in one day because of a simple meal that was high in Salt but lose that weight in a couple of days.

Besides I found that Cardio tend to decrease my weight faster than Yoga. Again look like Weight is the output of your previous day activities and by logging daily you simply have the data which then leads to a better understanding of the effect of food on your body (weight).

Hope this helps.

Aaron_K123

I weigh myself everyday but I pay ZERO attention to the day to day changes in weight. I take a 7 day average of my weight and compare that weekly average to the previous few weeks. That is a much better indicator of progress then trying to compare day to day.

Spot on...as always! I'm an engineer by trade, so I'm used to measuring and logging. So I step on the scale every day. Sometimes just for kicks, I weigh myself before bed and then when I wake up...just to see where I go. It's very normal for me to move up and down by 2lbs a day or more.

Ditto, I'm a scientist and similar to my engineer buddy here I measure every day for data sake (don't let the number affect me emotionally) and log it. Then I take a 7 day moving average to calculate a trend and see my weekly loss rate. I adjust my diet accordingly to stay on top of my goal and keep the loss linear. For the last two months this is what my weight loss has looked like as a result.



Data is what will let you stay on top of things, otherwise you are just guessing. Following the data allows me to adjust my diet to stay on target with 1.4 pounds lost per week which is the weight loss I want to hit my target in the desired time.

angeliis02

I weigh every day but only log my weight once a week. I'm pretty in tune with my body and weight fluctuations so I don't let the day today changes bother me.

fourze

I get my weight checked once every two weeks, I would more often but the scale at my house is old and not trustworthy so I go to my family doctors who are super friendly and encouraging

spacecowboy64

weekly

chelseascounter

anytime i feel like it. sometimes it's every day in a row, sometimes i go weeks without weighing myself.

AbsolutelyAnnie

After the bathroom and before breakfast or coffee. Naked. Every damn day. I can't track patterns, trends, and fluctuations if I don't see them. I don't get discouraged about natural fluctuations because it's just data and not a value judgement. It seems much more frustrating to me to weigh in once a week and know that I have as much of a chance of hitting an up day as a down day.

DeterminedMonica

I found weighing myself everyday is discouraging to me. My weight fluctuates daily up and down. For me to have a accurate weigh in, I only weigh in every 2nd Thursday at 11:30am. I also, plan on wearing there same cloths when I weigh in.

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TiberiusClaudis

Ditto, I'm a scientist and similar to my engineer buddy here I measure every day for data sake (don't let the number affect me emotionally) and log it. Then I take a 7 day moving average to calculate a trend and see my weekly loss rate. I adjust my diet accordingly to stay on top of my goal and keep the loss linear. For the last two months this is what my weight loss has looked like as a result.



Data is what will let you stay on top of things, otherwise you are just guessing. Following the data allows me to adjust my diet to stay on target with 1.4 pounds lost per week which is the weight loss I want to hit my target in the desired time.

Awesome tracking! And may I say, very impressive results! Kudos!

kdhamner

I weigh myself everyday. However, I only count my weekly official weigh ins on Wednesday mornings. Weighing myself daily keeps me accountable for poor choices, let's me know if I've been eating too much sodium, etc. I also don't let the number bother me during my monthly visitor. If I made poor eating choices the day prior, I let the scale remind me WHY I don't eat that way anymore. I also do the Herbalife program. To date I have lost 72 lbs following the program. Good luck to you!

nailsbykatevergara

I am resisting the urge to weigh myself everyday. I have become obssessed and I know I ned to stop.

Didn't weigh myself yesterday. Gonna have to wait until next week

Nedra19455

Another vote for weighing daily and then tracking the trend using a 7-day average. I use an app called WeightTrend+ which does this for me. I LOVE weighing everyday and it's awesome to see the trend weight go down everyday, even if my daily weight is up and down.

Everyone has their own way of doing things. Some people get really passionate and preachy about "eating clean" or weighing all their food or taking cheat days or eating back calories or what-not. For me, I think that weighing daily and tracking my trend weight is the single most important part of my persistence and continued motivation since I started 7 weeks ago.

lorigrocks

I weigh myself every morning when I wake up...crazy I know but I like to see where I am at with the certain foods I have eaten the day before. I have learned alot by doing that...TOM, too much sodium - water retention, etc. But I only log my weight once a week usually every Saturday morning.

ChristineRoze

once a week, saturday mornings before breaky

rsoice

Used to be a once a day/everyday on the scale but recently moved to once a week but am thinking about going back to daily. It's an accountability thing for me.

d3m1urge

once a week