Why you should weigh yourself daily

fionarama

i dont' have any scales at home, I wiegh myself every time I go to the gym, and quite often wanting to know how much I weigh is my motivation to go! I think its fine to weigh a lot, as long as you don't panic if it goes up about. If you are doing things right you will see a slow downward slide with only mild fluctuations. And at least you know straight away if what you are doing isn't working.

meerkat70

I've always weighed daily, but only log weekly. This gives me, I think, a better understanding of the way my weight fluctuates within the week, and the things that influence it, so that if, for instance, I have a sudden gain at my weekly weigh in, I tend to understand where t comes from, and I'm less likely to be upset by it.

I can become a tad obsessed with weighing, and I also know consequently how my body weight shifts through the average day, I don't see that as a bad thing, either.

I don't think there are absolutes with these things, though I do agree that when you *don't* weight at all, that tends to be bad news for dieting.

Tankplanker

I weigh myself daily but I rely on the trend weight reported on my Android Phone in Libra, I find this is more representative of what I actually weight and doesn't fluctuate so much. Just to make things even easier I have Libra download the latest measurements from my Withings Internet Scales automatically.

See it in action:
http://code.google.com/p/libra-android/