When Do You Weigh In

jdholland5508

So I have been reading post from people that get frustrated when the scale says that they weight 1 lb more than they did the day before. This seems silly to me because I know how much my weigh goes up and down on in a regular day. For instance I weighed 193.6 lbs suday morning after an intense workout. I ate all my calories for the day and drank about 1.5 gallons of water. At the end of the night I was 202.8 almost a 8.2lb difference. So I never get to upset over little fluctuations but I was wondering which weight everyone puts into MFP. Do you put in the lowest number you see that week or what you have been seeing the most?

AwesomelyAmber

I weigh Friday morning with underclothes on only. If I check my weight throughout the week it's only for guidence. I would drive myself NUTTS if I weighed daily or hourly For some though, weighing in daily keeps them more accountable I guess.

alicita75

My trainer has told me to never weigh yourself after a workout or at the end of the night...The scale will be wrong, your body weighs more after a workout and you can be retaining water. Only weigh yourself in the morning and only once a week. Choose a day to weigh in say Sunday mornings and only enter that weight into MFP. So enter your weight every Sunday morning into MFP to what the scale says.

Shell_7609

I'll check myself at home during the week, but my weigh-in that I log is every tuesday at the gym in my swimsuit before my hydro-pilates class

garita93

I weigh everyday but I only put in the lowest number that I see no matter what time of day it is. Just what works for me.

23SVM88

Sometimes I will weigh myself every day or every other day just to see how it changes and for guidance of where I am at, but for MFP I only record it once a week. On Monday mornings I hop on the scale and that's the number I use.

TeddyBear47

I weigh in a few times a month but officially at the 1st of every month.

RipperSB

I think consistency is the key... same day, same scale, same conditions. I weigh in on Saturday morning, before breakfast, underwear only. I have done it this way since the beginning and so I think it gives a more accurate record that way.

SweetSammie

I always put in the low... sometimes it takes a week or more to see another low. However, I do this with the knowledge that math tells me those other higher weights aren't true gain - I log EVERYTHING, so there is no way I truly gained 3 lbs - it's salt, water retention or (TMI, sorry) the fact that I haven't gone to the restroom. If I had "cheated" or had a bad week, that might be different.

mlbrowninsc

I check each morning throughout the week but my official weigh in for tracking purposes come on Saturday morning first thing. My goal is to loose 1-2 lbs per week. As long as I'm down on my official day, i'm ok.

gatorginger

I weigh every day but I only enter in my weight if it's a loss and not a gain. So if I weighed 128 yesterday and I weighed 128.2 today I would not enter the 128.2, I only enter if I go lower than last recording.

jdholland5508

I like to keep track of both numbers my highest and lowest of the week. Also has any men that lift weights, picked their goal weight based on what is a "healthy" BMI. I am begining to think it might be hard to reach 185 without losing my strength and muscle.

Storey621

I weigh Friday morning with underclothes on only. If I check my weight throughout the week it's only for guidence. I would drive myself NUTTS if I weighed daily or hourly For some though, weighing in daily keeps them more accountable I guess.

I do this exact same thing. Exact my weigh in day is Sunday.

pandsmomCheryl

Every morning. I expect some fluctuations but I find this keeps me honest with myself...

Sabine_Stroehm

I weigh every day (and have weighed multiple times a day) to get a sense of the fluctuations.

I WEIGH IN on sunday mornings after a pee, before breakfast. I log that weight and look for long term (monthly or so) trends with that number.

yoovie

Once per season for the next phase! Woohoo! Next one is Friday!

eal12_00

They say to weigh in once a week becuz ur body changes so much from water,salt,etc....I weigh in on Monday mornings as soon as i wake up that way i do not overindulge on the weekend...mind trick i do lol

sarahharmintx

I weigh in almost every morning. I log my weight Wednesday mornings. I also jump on the scale almost every night but that one is more like "holy cow a drank 3lbs of water/tea/whatever today". I know its not real weight.

RilantheFirebug

My weigh in day is Friday, in the morning wearing very little or nothing right before I get into the shower. I do tend to weigh myself daily, just out of curiosity, but number that counts is the one on Friday.

SunburNDA

I weigh in every morning, before eating anything and after working out. Really, it doesn't matter when you weigh in as long as you are being consistent.

jenlarz

I weigh myself often during the week, but officially my day is Wednesday. I track and record that day if it is small loss, good loss, or even a gain.

mzhokie

I weigh every morning out of curiosity. But I log in what it says on Wed morning into MFP. I stick with once a week. For me it's a nice reinforcement of what I'm doing right or it might signal I have gotten off track. I'm a tad of a control freak so I like knowing what the scale says every day. I do my best not to let it get to me if there is a fluctuation. Usually it makes me drink a little more water and do a little more exercise so I don't see it as a bad thing.

Poods71

I weight myself every morning (just to keep a check on things) but only log my weight once a week (Monday morning) x

Casey45

Like many replies, my official for the record books weigh in is once/week, same day, same time of day (a.m., upon waking), same clothes (NAKED baby! ) same scale.

For kicks this last week since I seemed to plateau two weeks ago and then seemed to gain two pounds right after the Canadian long May weekend (ate same, drank more, exercised less) I decided to weigh in daily to see the fluctuations. Sure enough, the two pound "gain" disappeared in two days - impossible for that to have been fat - and even the plateau evaporated. I think for the next month or so, I'll keep weighing and logging on a daily basis and compare the mean and mode to my official weigh in day. For kicks. I'm going to hypothesize that the mode will be a closer match to the official weight than the median..... we'll see. All depends on the range and frequency of the fluctuations of course. Fun to track at any rate.

EternalJourney

On the 1st of every month..

I don't care what the scale says.. as long as I am putting in the effort and working hard I dont care what happens.

enyo123

I weigh, measure and log every morning nude, after going to the washroom and before getting dressed and feeding my human alarm clock. I expect fluctuations, but focus on trends.

sleepyjean88

I weigh in once a week on a Sunday morning post-toilet pre-breakfast. I have been known to do a cheeky midweek weigh in but these are usually more upsetting than anything else so I've learned not to do that haha.

montana_girl

I use my weigh in from my Weight Watchers meeting (Thursday morning) as my "official" weight and I log that whether it's a loss or a gain. I might occasionally check in on my home scale but I don't log that since my weight varies so much during the week.

I used to be very obsessed with the scale but I'm starting to learn (only took me 8 years!) that the scale is just a number and doesn't give the true account of how well I've done during the week. I use it as feedback and just one of many indicators of how I am doing overall.

quie618

I weigh myself daily but for the sake of starting MFP I'm moving to once per week on Tuesdays. I prefer to weigh myself first thing in the morning before eating, after I've gone to the bathroom and in the buff :blushing: