how often do you weigh yourself?

Sid1988

I seem to have fallen into a trap of weighing myself everyday, one day the scales will tell me something different to the next (either more or less).

How often should i be weighing myself?

Thanks.

DesireeLovesOrganic

I do everyday as well. Keeps me on track personally. If I don't I slack a bit. LOL

dinkydudette

I've started doing it just once a month, when I'm feeling thinnest and I remember. It's so easy to obsess about all the little changes but mostly it's just water.

DaniKenmir

I do it every day, I always have! It can be really uplifting, or make you feel pretty bad, but I always remember the final judgement is the mirror as you may have gained muscle

robvaleri

I weigh in everyday also, but only record once a week. I agree that it helps keep me on track though seeing the roller coaster can give me anxiety

47Jacqueline

I weigh in every other week. I have a tendency to bounce up and down even if I stay at my daily calorie goal and a lot is water weight, so I usually show an accurate loss on the second week.

ferrytrip

:sad: all the flippin time, it's my new vice

chezileigh

I think I'm going to do it once a week. Doing it every day would just stress me out because of increases which aren't necessarily diet related but water etc.

Pimpmonkey

once a week

1992cmw

I use to weigh myself everyday because I was obsessed with my weight(losing it). I suggest you weigh yourself once a week or once every two weeks. You should do it early in the morning after you wake up and have used the bathroom. I suggest either Mondays or Fridays.

cburky911

Weight can fluctuate from day to day and from morning to afternoon to evening. I got rid of the scales in my house so that I would not get caught up weighing myself every day (or multiple times each day). I weigh myself once a week on the same day (most of the time). Usually it's Sunday, but there have been a few times where I've weighed in on Saturday for different reasons.

I always use the same scales (in the gym at work).

I weigh myself in the morning before eating breakfast.

I wear the same clothes every time I weigh in.

Maybe a little bit OCD...but this way I know that the numbers on the scale are an accurate reflection of what I've lost and not a product of what I may have just eaten, water weight, time of day, clothes I'm wearing, etc.

This is what works for me.

DietandVlogsense

I seem to have fallen into a trap of weighing myself everyday, one day the scales will tell me something different to the next (either more or less).

How often should i be weighing myself?

Thanks.

Weekly, or at most twice weekly, should be enough.

Remember, you weight will fluctuate, in both directions, depending on many factors, including have you just eaten, how hydrated are you at this point, have you been to the toilet this morning, etc, etc.

33neenaj

Once a week

piratesaregrand

Two or three times a day. I only record Monday mornings one though.

For me I'm interested in how much it can change during the day, so the number never worries me.

KaonaRose

I know I have become obsessive about it in the past (I would weigh myself after every meal or snack), so now I'm trying to stick to once a week, twice max.

DaveC29

I weigh myself daily...

I record them and take the average of the past 10 days to record here. Averaging takes out all the highs and lows from my daily diet, so you don't stress out over those 2 pounds you 'gained' over night, or get really excited about the pound you 'lost' after a hard workout.

Perhaps a little too much for some, but it works for me!

meggonkgonk

Everyone does what works for them here, but if you like to weigh yourself everyday, but find it kind of makes or breaks how you feel, I suggest keeping a weekly comparison log- in excel or some other program, record your weight everyday, but make it a weekly grid so you are comparing your weight to what it was on the same day last week- Monday to monday, instead of monday in relation to Sunday and Tuesday. It's better for your sanity, and, I find, a better barometer for how you are doing.

AlexLee13

I normally weight myself once a week, but now that it's summer I am weighing myself more and more!

BaDaSsBrUnEtTe

I do everyday as well. Keeps me on track personally. If I don't I slack a bit. LOL

Same here

3LittleMonkeyMom

Once a week. Thinking of going once a month though...because I drive myself crazy if I don't see the loss I want. I wonder what I did "wrong". Silly brain.

jjtl0811

I weight in once per week. Every Tuesday morning! My weight changes so much on a daily basis. I've always heard that to be accurate you should weight the same day of the week at the same time!

HLeAnn

I do it "officially" once every week or 2 weeks. I do occasionally weigh myself every couple days out of curiosity to see how my body fluctuates. It's kind of amazing. I can fluctuate up to 5 or 6 lbs heavier some days. In the end, I know I'm eating at a defecit and working out so in the long-term I WILL lose fat and I'm not worried about the scale so much.

melindadunston

I weight myself once a day, every morning, naked. That way I know what my body is doing. If I wait and do it once a week I may get lazy and let the pounds go back on! They can jump on quickly if you aren't careful!

OnionMomma

I weigh in once a week, Friday mornings, just out of bed still in my PJs after going potty of course....LOL

As a woman, I know my weight will fluctuate too much to weigh every day, I would drive myself nuts if I did that.

andivaclavicek

Daily. I don't freak about the flucuations and it helps keep me on track. This doesn't work for everyone, though.

glengiles

Tracking food and exercise - every day.

Weighing - once a month.

Bobby_Clerici

I weigh myself daily upon awaking before eating or drinking but after a good morning pooh.:drinker:
And I record any gains the instant I enter a newer, lower number.
EXAMPLE: If I was 199.9, then saw my weight creeping down day after day, I would not record a new weight on MFP until that scale said 198.9.
And I record 198....and so on....
Makes it more fun for me, but some people who stress out over the scale would go insane doing this.
I get it.
To each his own.
I also track progress with bodyfat. Weight is not the whole picture, and the scale can lie as badly as the man in the mirror.
You can check here for free: http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/diet.html
Something else to obsess over? Not al all.
Remember, you rule the numbers - not the other way around.
Have a great day!

shydaisi

I seem to have fallen into a trap of weighing myself everyday, one day the scales will tell me something different to the next (either more or less).

How often should i be weighing myself?

Thanks.

You should weigh as often as works for you.

I like to weigh daily to see how my day to day activities and food/water choices affect my weight. I have thought about weighing weekly occasionally, but there have been times where my weight on one Monday would the same from one week to the next even though there were fluctuations throughout the week.

daughterofthesea

I used to weigh myself every day but our scales are absolutely terrible so I've given up until my semester starts in September. When that starts, I plan to weigh myself once a week when I'm in university.

rock127

Once a month usually but if I go to gym then once a week.

FitBunnyEm

Weight can fluctuate from day to day and from morning to afternoon to evening. I got rid of the scales in my house so that I would not get caught up weighing myself every day (or multiple times each day). I weigh myself once a week on the same day (most of the time). Usually it's Sunday, but there have been a few times where I've weighed in on Saturday for different reasons.

I always use the same scales (in the gym at work).

I weigh myself in the morning before eating breakfast.

I wear the same clothes every time I weigh in.

Maybe a little bit OCD...but this way I know that the numbers on the scale are an accurate reflection of what I've lost and not a product of what I may have just eaten, water weight, time of day, clothes I'm wearing, etc.

This is what works for me.

this is what i will be doing from now onwards as weighing daily drove me nuts