How often do you weight in?

OandE

Since research show that people who monitor their weight regularly are more likely to spot trends (going up or down) and act accordingly. I’m Curious, how often do you check your weight?

I’m every morning before shower.

skylark94

I'm not the type to freak out if I see a small gain one day, so I weigh every day. If I see a small gain I can make immediate adjustments as needed.

I weigh in the morning, on an empty stomach.

Jessamin

I weigh myself most mornings before I shower/eat/drink but don't pay too much attention to fluctuations. If I did, I'd lose my mind.

I have an official weigh-in on Sundays that I focus on.

kapeluza

Every single day and this is why (from my blog):

"Aunt Flo, Oh How I Hate Thee.....

Don't you wish that some days you were a man? I know that during specific times of the month when our grumpy Aunt Flo decides to make an appearance in our lives, that is when I wish I were a man. I mean come on now, men have it easy. I think the hardest thing they have to deal with through the weight loss journey is the manbooblars.

Ok, now that I got that off my chest, ever since I switched scales I started weighing myself twice a day. At first it was more curiosity than anything. Amazing how in the morning you weighed a # and BAM in the evening you could weigh 3-4lbs heavier. I’ll even go to the extreme and be a little gross and tell you how stunned I was after an explosion in the bathroom to see a 1-2lbs difference on the scale. Anyways, I started writing down and keeping track of every weigh in I did, every single day. I have found it extremely helpful to be honest. I don’t write down every single time I weigh myself but rather I record the morning reading.

How can this possibly be healthy for someone who is trying to lose weight? Well, this is how it has helped me….

For example, last week on Thursday 8-25-11 I weighed in at 166lbs (which would have given me a +2lb loss for that week) but on my official weigh in day, Friday 8-26-11, BAM, I weighed 170lbs!!! TOM was around the corner so I knew what the culprit was. So far, I've been juggling between 169bs and 170lbs since Friday. TOM is visiting so it is reflecting on the scale. Had I weighed in only once a week and saw a 4lb weight gained, yeah, I would freaked the freak out!!!

Break down:

8/25/11 - 166lbs

8/26/11 - 170.0lbs KAPOW!!

8/27/11 - 169.2lbs

8/28/11 - 170lbs

8/29/11 - 170.4lbs

8/30/11 - 167.4lbs

To compare results and ensure nothing else was going on, I went back to my records from one month ago and surely enough I saw weight gain on the days prior to and during TOM. So, I feel a little better about that 4lb gain which can easily be contributed to water retention or just symptoms associated with Aunt Freaking Flo.

So, today, 8-30-11 is my day 4 of Aunt Flo kicking my *kitten* and this will probably be my last day of TOM. Surely enough when I got on the scale this morning it was down to 167lbs from being 170lbs all weekend. I was feeling really bloated and I still feel a little bloated so yeah, I hope to see good numbers come tomorrow or next day when Aunt Flo has packed up her sh#t and left the house. I hope to see that 166lbs come Wednesday or Thursday!



This has been a message from your friendly neighborhood honey badger…..



Stay thirsty my friends…… for H20 of course!!







(if you don't know why I call myself a honey badger then clicky here:

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