How often do you weigh yourself?

Holla4mom

I weigh in daily, but I'm comfortable with the daily ups and downs of water retention varying the weights. If that's an issue, then once a week or even once a month is a better choice.

^This sums it up for me.

Klunker79

A while back I read a book called "Make Shi(f)t Happen" by Dean Dwyer. In it he talks about the three traits most people with successful weight loss share. One of those traits was weighing in every morning. Although the author does not recommend doing this I still do. I don't document my weight daily however as it does go up and down. Instead I document weekly. Still I like to see where my start point is daily as I find it helps motivate me to eat clean and stay on track.

johncarrjr

Every morning, right after I get out of the shower. Its weird, sometimes I'll weigh myself in the morning, after using the rest room, and then after the shower, and after the shower, I sometimes weigh less. you'd think you'd weigh more.

FindingAmy77

I weight myself every morning, write it down then forget it. I only count it on Thursday mornings. My weight fluctuates throughout the week so I know it will go up and down but I am a scale addict so I got tired of fighting it. Plus it helps me to stay on track and I really like seeing it go down .2 or so a day when I been hitting it hard on exercise and eating right. I just don't let it get me down or up until weigh in day.

handicapsmile64

I typically weigh a few times a week, but I only record Monday mornings weigh in. I think that a large portion of me packing on an additional 40 pounds in the past three years is the fact that I didn't weigh for a long time. I avoided the scale like the plague and I don't think I realized (even though my clothes were telling me) just how much weight was stacking up. I am more conscious if I weigh more often.

weightliftingaddict

It's natural for a woman's weight to fluctuate daily. I go by clothes and skip the scale.

nicoleromine

I weigh every 3 or 4 days. More importantly, I measure and take pictures once a month!

Harunan

Previously once a week, now once a day.

AllieLosingIt

I like to weigh in daily to see the fluctuations, it's pretty neat to me.

iggyboo93

Once a day in the morning. Sodium intake causes huge variations for me so I try to track it closely. I officially log my weight once a week from my TOPS meetings on Thursdays.

michaeljacksonfan333

I have always weighed myself everyday and it always frustrated me because weight can vary day to day. I found that it was too much and didn't motivate me. So now I am trying to weigh myself once a week. I have found so far that it motivates me to keep going everyday without any stress over the scale.
I also think it would be more rewarding to see the change made in a week than just one day to day!

levicrouch

For myself, i weigh and take measurements (skinfold, and body measurements) every Saturday (or Sunday if i miss Saturday). I believe the scale is only part of the story. What I really care about is that I have less measured fat over time and am smaller in size.

As an example: On 3/8/2014 i weighed 192.2 and an estimated BF% 19%. On 4/5/2014 i weighed 193.0 and an estimated BF% 17. While i gained almost a pound of scale weight i actually lost 3.7 pounds of fat. Additionally, I lost .375 inches overall my body

If I were to judge my success over that 4-5 week period based solely on scale weight I might have presumed that my diet wasn't working (assuming i wanted to lose weight and not maintain), but in fact it was working as best i could hope for.

shemoves

I weigh myself 5 times a day when I'm obsessing... just to make sure I actually lost that pound! But sometimes I go months without weighing myself and that's when I gain weight!

I hear that your body reflects what you did the previous week. So your weight today is actually from what you did from last week. I don't know if it's true but it actually makes sense.

FaylinaMeir

This is what I just put in the other topic :

I weigh myself whenever I want, sometimes I do it once a week sometimes I'll do it everyday. It's always after I wake up and pee. I use my wiifit board (literally the only thing I use my wii for :laugh:) and I do it nude that way I know for sure what I weigh. My clothes vary in weight.

lindainprogress

I know its kinda nuts, but I weigh myself twice a day. I think it is fascinating the difference between morning and night. I also have 10 pound incremental goals, I count the loss when I see it at night. if I don't look at it daily I find it easy to get off base. crazy or smart? It is different for each or us

Bayani1091

Morning usually on some days (Not every day)
or after I take a dump. (seriously)

firststepformefal

I'm a little different it seems from everyone here. I get weighed twice a week, once at TOPS on Monday and once at Curves on Friday.

agnes123333

I didn't weigh myself for 2 weeks after I started and I lost 2lb I've weighed myself since then about a week ago and I'm back where I started. But I know bloating for me adds an extra few kilos. I just wait until I'm feeling light.

JudithVerhappen

Once a week! I visit a WeightWatchers course every wednesdayevening, and that is my time!!

I know it's very tempting to weigh more often, but there are so many factors that have an influence on your weight that I get really frustrated if I weigh myself more often. Once a week gives me a steady idea of the direction in which I'm heading. Sometimes I can't stand the temptation though, and I weigh myself on those times also (although I usually forget what the scale said in those moments)

gerla_k

I don't have specific day for weighing myself. Sometimes once a week, sometimes every other day.

Palamedes

Never...

My Health and Fitness person at work takes my weight once a week on Monday mornings. She also checks my fat percentage. I'm concentrating on lowering my fat rather than strictly trying to lose weight. Nothing like being held accountable by someone other than myself.

In the past, I limited myself to checking my weight once a week and always at the same time/day.

vball1121

I probably weigh myself every other week, but i measure my inches weekly! When I notice a difference in inches then I'll hop on the scale and see what it says... it's been working great for me! Less dissapointment

KatieSvelte

I try to weigh every Friday, but it usually turns out to be more then that. i need to have DH hide the scale.

nancy10272004

I'm not allowed to weigh myself. I see my doctor every one or two months and he weighs me there. I am in recovery from an ED and when I told him that I was weighing myself twice a day and making adjustments to the next day's food based on the night time weight he made me bring my scale in to him and promise not to weigh myself.

DvlDwnInGA

Weigh myself when I get up every morning. I used to just weigh in every Friday morning, but I like keeping track of how I progress from day to day. It also helps to keep me honest.

wellthenwhat

I weigh myself Saturday mornings after I've peed and before I've eaten.

BekaBooluvsu

I weigh every morning without clothes and just after I use the bathroom. I like to see the up and down trend and I have a graph app on my phone that I input the data into. It works for me and helps keep me motivated. Sometimes it's frustrating to eat really well and still have the scale go up a pound and a half in one day for no reason but sometimes it drops by that much as well.

I wouldn't recommend that everyone do this, however. You just have to find what works for you.

all of this

I would be so freaked out by weighing in just once a week or once a month. I would feel totally unsure of where I "stood". I weigh in every morning like the poster above and it's a great thing FOR ME but may not suit everyone.

I think it's important to remember that our weight loss is not linear. There are many factors that play into each day's weigh in such as sodium, water retention, exercise (muscle recovery "gains" can occur even with minor exercise), etc. I put faith in my overall diet/exercise habits and eating at a deficit and it pays off.

I will not allow one light day of healthy eating followed by a 0.5 lb "gain" derail that...I think this is where some people run into trouble and start believing "it doesn't matter what I eat, I still gain"...I told myself that for years and I was wrong.

^^Same here!

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caperchick78

I weigh myselft once per month at the end of the month at a local clinic. I just go in to the lab and hop on their scale. The lab staff then enter it into my medical record for the doctor and dietitian to see if need be. It works for me because if I do it more frequently I become too obsessive. I tend to focus more on just feeling better than numbers on a scale.

headofphat

Generally only after I fire off a deuce.