Addicted to weighing myself...

sarah307

not alone.

in high school, my parents threw away my scale because i was being too obsessive about it
of course, after i moved out i just bought a new one.
now i have written on mine.. " Is in Wednesday??" so when I look at it, i can remind myself to only weigh on wednesdays.. it dosen't always work but sometimes it's a little reminder.. if not.. throw it out for a few weeks

awdamm

i step on almost every time i go to the bathroom. :-/

I'm really not sure why my weight fluctuates in a 24 hr period as much as 8lbs. I know it will vary depending on time of day but really a difference of 8 lbs. CRAZY!

kleavitt1992

i do but i think as long as you know your not actually heavier its not a big deal i.e i know how my body fluctuates the morning im lightest during the day i weigh about 3lbs more than i do in the mornings at night i usually weigh 1lb more than i do in the morning i.e if my night time weight is less than it usually is ill weigh less in the mornings so i can predict calculated loss. so yes i think its fine as long as you compleatly understand you didnt actually gain fat during the day just water

_Ben

I weigh myself everyday, same time: right after I work out. I know its not the best thing to do, but if I see my weight even slightly lower, it encourages me to lose more weight

mabelebam

I weigh myself every morning too...but I try not to get discouraged if the numbers are still the same. Instead I take it as an indicator of the amount of water I need to replace in my body (if I ate too much sodium the day before) and a daily motivator to get moving!

HackerX

I weigh myself every day, most nights and often more.

Do I feel guilty about it? Definitely not.
Do I ever get concerned if I gain weight? Not unless it's significant uptrend over a couple of days.

I do it just because I'm fascinated at seeing what different effects things like exercising, eating, salt, drinking water have on my body. Even gaining weight during the day, I can feel happy because I can generally predict what the overnight drop (which is pretty consistent) is going to be.

kendrafallon

Everytime I'm passing by... Not the best motivator in the world!

I only log the weight once a week though

XXXMinnieXXX

I was weighing daily and it was dragging me down, it wasn't showing a move in 4 days, felt ready to quit, decided to stop weighing until it was monday, which would be one week and I was -4lb. If I'd just weighed myself once that week I would have had an emotional rollercoaster! Its hard but I'm determined now to only weigh once a week. I weigh in on the wii fit. I feel more positive and I really look forward to Mondays now! X

anu_6986

I used to weigh daily... Now sometimes I don't bother weighing even weekly... i am more happy if i am able to get my workout in and stay within the calorie limits. Just give it time, you will get out of it.

Kntu

yeahhhh, this is so me! When I first started to really weigh myself a lot, it was so depressing to see the number go up and the loss I thought I had made disappear throughout the day. But I know now, five months on, that this is not the case at all. I know now, for example that I will 'put on' on average about 2lb a day and I know that the next morning this 'gain' will have magically disappeared. In fact, when I didn't have the scales to guide me when I was away for a week, I put on a few pound. I think that if I had had scales to hand, the temptation of chocolate and ice cream (and there was a lot!!!) would have been easier to resist because I would have seen the gain on the scales. For some people it might be an unhealthy obsession, my Mum certainly thinks so, but for me it's how I measure my progress and it's what keeps me on track and surely that's no bad thing!

katemanning3

I weigh every morning but only record when I show progession. I do it purposely to see how my cals and exercise are affected my weight day to day since I don't work out every day and a lot of days I don't meet all my calories, so checking in the morning I can see which made a difference on the scale. Like my "cheat" day, the day before I finished my day with like 400 calories left and the cheat day I went over 500 calories, the next morning after the cheat day, I was up weight. The morning of the cheat day I was down weight. So, I think my body does okay if I miss some cals but deffinately not with going over. There was one day I weighed thruout the day and it was going down over the hours, that's never happend to me before. I am always higher at the end of the day. Ofcourse that was during my detox.