Do you record any weight gain on MFP..

SupernovaLeon

Do you guys ever state when you have gained weight or do you leave the current weight as it is until you've lost weight on your next weigh in?

Vailara

I record all my weights because I like to look at them in graph form in "Reports". I weigh daily, so I'm used to my weight going up now and then!

But I can understand that some people might find it more motivating to record the losses and ignore the gains. I suppose it's just a case of finding what works for you.

hhayes06

I weigh in and record weekly, does not matter if I go up or down. Of course a loss is always better than a gain for me but it's not what I hinge my overall success on.

Maris_Swan

Of course. This weight loss game is not always pretty and I find that it helps to be honest with yourself about gains/losses to help learn how they happened in the first place to have a better weigh in next time.

SupernovaLeon

I agree recording the gains along with losses are equally as important as each other.

LindaEmrys

Of course. This weight loss game is not always pretty and I find that it helps to be honest with yourself about gains/losses to help learn how they happened in the first place to have a better weigh in next time.

^^^ This

Vailara

Of course. This weight loss game is not always pretty and I find that it helps to be honest with yourself about gains/losses to help learn how they happened in the first place to have a better weigh in next time.

^^^ This

I'd hoped this would work for me, and I know some people are able to trace gains back to eating too much salt, etc. But to be honest, in months and months of tracking, I haven't been able to accurately find a cause for particular gains/losses. It just seems that my weight naturally fluctuates a little, and my overall loss is slow, so occasionally I'm going to be a pound heavier than the day before. I don't let it worry me. I continue to record them, but I haven't actually managed to learn anything from them. (Unless you count learning that they seem to be a little random!).

Howevever, one thing I have noticed is that the more weight l lose, the less I seem to fluctuate from day to day, oddly. It's rare to see a difference of more than a pound now.

msshugar2u

I too will weigh daily but only record lose or gain weekly. Same day same time.

Wgbn32

I don't record gains. I just find from a mental standpoint its better for me not to. I weigh myself every few days and record officially on Sundays. Sometimes ill go a few Sundays without recording if I've gained. But eventually I do get back on track.

SupernovaLeon

I don't record gains. I just find from a mental standpoint its better for me not to. I weigh myself every few days and record officially on Sundays. Sometimes ill go a few Sundays without recording if I've gained. But eventually I do get back on track.

Me too

JanetP124

My Aria scale posts automatically to my online records.

yaseyuku

I weigh in weekly and will record regardless of the direction the scale moves.

RobP1192

Record everything, so you can keep track. Up or down, good or bad, it's your track record.

easternNCchick

Yes, I need to hold myself accountable for where Im struggling

wiseeliz

I only record when I have a loss. I'm not denying the weight gain when I see it on the scale, but I reserve the right to remember it without recording it. Especially when I don't notice it in my life away from the scale; right now I'm officially up 3 lbs from my last recorded weigh in, but I feel good, I'm eating well, and my clothes don't fit differently, so I'm not going to freak out about it.

toutmonpossible

Every time I weigh myself I record it. Part of the point is to condition myself to hate recording weight increases so much that it improves eating behavior.

waldo56

I do from time to time just for MFP's exercise calc's.

But I record daily weight in's in my main spreadsheet, up down or sideways. Important to have 'em all to calculate your true maintenance intake.

gracielynn1011

I told myself in the beginning that I would record everything. It broke my heart a little this morning to record a 2lb gain. But this is only the second gain I've recorded since I got serious about this thing.

I do know the causes of my gain, so I am focusing this week and will see at least half of it gone this coming week!

HappyElizabeth

I weigh myself every day and my Aria scale sends the data to Fitbit and MFP within seconds, so there's no chance for me to log it, or make an excuse and not log it. Some days it's up, and some days it's down. I just let it be and it gets recorded. Much better for me this way.

bwogilvie

I record my weight on MFP every Monday and Friday (unless I'm traveling and away from a scale), and I record my weight daily on a spreadsheet. I'm a datahead! And I want to be brutally honest with myself.

However, I also use John Walker's method of using an exponentially weighted average to track my weight trend (described in the "Signal and Noise" chapter of "The Hacker's Diet," his free online book, which a search engine will take you to). As long as most of my daily morning weight measurements are below the weighted average, I'm losing weight, even when my weight goes up a couple pounds from the previous day's measurement. Tracking the weighted average is a great way to keep from being disappointed by ordinary fluctuations while detecting the actual direction of your long-term trend.

BigBrunette

I record my weight every Sunday, whether the scale is up or down. I celebrate the losses. The gains remind me that I'm in this for the long haul.

♥ChUbByCoyLe♥

Yes, I usually announce it on my feed if I've gained weight. It helps hold me accountable!

jazpurita

yup it is always harder to record when I have gained but its motivation to keep pushing and work harder to lose it

toutmonpossible

yup it is always harder to record when I have gained but its motivation to keep pushing and work harder to lose it

It's also an attempt at reaching a kind of acceptance of oneself (not passive stagnation):


"This is what I weigh today and while I may not be happy, I'm not going to collapse. I'm going to direct actions so I have a positive result in the future."

I'm convinced some people are attracted to the drama of feeling bad about themselves. They get off on the humiliation, the self-abnegation, because those feelings are more vivid that following their eating and fitness plan most days. That's boring.

chelseascounter

Yes I record it. I've only had to do it once, though. *knocks on wood*

FitandFab33

Depends- like today I weighed and had a loss, but I know it's water weight so I didn't record that loss. Otherwise, if I weighed in tomorrow I'd just be recording a gain and neutralizing the difference :-)

toutmonpossible

Yes, I usually announce it on my feed if I've gained weight. It helps hold me accountable!

I often do that, too.

SupernovaLeon

The reason I often prefer not to record gains is because they can be sometimes due to muscle weight

runlilyrun

I don't record gains. I just find from a mental standpoint its better for me not to. I weigh myself every few days and record officially on Sundays. Sometimes ill go a few Sundays without recording if I've gained. But eventually I do get back on track.

Me too

I'm similar to this. I weigh every second day and I only record if there's a loss - and a loss i can see. I have non-digital (analogue?) scales so sometimes what could be a loss of 1lb could just be my weight in a different place - plus it only has 2lb markings on it.

GormanGhaste

I weigh daily, but only record losses, unless I go a full week without a new low, then I'll just record where I am.