How Often Do YOu Weigh Yourself?

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  • pinkbeamer
    pinkbeamer Posts: 2 Member
    I understand your frustration on whether to weigh yourself everyday. I have heard two different ways, once a month and once a week. Not sure which to do myself. If you hear other suggestions, please pass on the tips.
  • weekendworker
    weekendworker Posts: 9 Member
    Once a week on Friday.
  • SharmelleOlson
    SharmelleOlson Posts: 85 Member
    I way myself not enough lol. I try to do it once a week but I have been forgetting to do it lol. Other whise I for surely do it ones a month when I go into see my dietition lol.

    I know when I do not eat three meals a day like I should I tend to gain the weight back. But when I am eating all of the meals I should in a day I lose the weight. So I know there is a problem there that I need to fix lol.
  • Maria_T007
    Maria_T007 Posts: 107
    Everyday.....but I log once a week..
  • mrsains
    mrsains Posts: 104 Member
    Since my goal is to achieve tone and not weight loss, I rarely weigh myself - maybe once every two months. I prefer to go by measurements, pictures, and what I see in the mirror!
  • CRody44
    CRody44 Posts: 776 Member
    Every morning butt necked after a good pee, but I count my weight loss only from Sunday to Sunday, realizing there are daily fluctuations. I log it on a spread sheet as well as what I had the night before for dinner. I also log my blood sugar, blood pressure, macros, cholesterol, sodium, exercise length, calories burned, maximum and minimum heart rate. Hay, it may be excessive for most, but it works for me.
  • gaylynn35
    gaylynn35 Posts: 854 Member
    I weigh every other day or so. My scale is right next to my desk so I see it every morning. It is probably best to weigh no more than once a week though.
  • nicholettebell
    nicholettebell Posts: 414
    I weigh myself a few times a week. I try not to do it daily because it just makes me crazy!
  • donnasjohnson
    donnasjohnson Posts: 71 Member
    I also weigh at least twice a day. I absolutely love seeing it go up and down, back up, then down again...weird isn't it? In the past, I weighed only once a week and that would REALLY depress me when I had done well for seven days and then my weight be up. I know now that it is absolutely normal for me to vary like crazy, usually because of sodium retention but also anytime my muscles are sore from a more intense workout. My big moments now are when I weigh the same at the end of the day; that almost guarantees me a nice loss in the morning. I only log my losses, and then I have to hit the same number two days in a row before I change it.
  • cathiaflock
    cathiaflock Posts: 112 Member
    Often. I mostly weigh myself at night to see if I'll have a good weigh in in the am. It helps keep me accountable or I'm just obsessed. HAHA. I weigh myself sometimes 4 x's a day...:blushing:
  • dalgal26
    dalgal26 Posts: 781 Member
    Each and every morning! It keeps me on track!:happy:
  • YoshiZelda
    YoshiZelda Posts: 340 Member
    Every other day. Though some people think that's a bit much, I don't. It helps me stay on track.
  • YoshiZelda
    YoshiZelda Posts: 340 Member
    Each and every morning! It keeps me on track!:happy:


    I love your ticker's picture ! So true.
  • avrilamor
    avrilamor Posts: 30
    Once a week is more than enough for me. I usually weigh on Monday morning...
  • JoniSMoore
    JoniSMoore Posts: 1 Member
    I weigh myself everyday. Even though I get frustrated at the fluctuation I feel better knowing and when it goes down I start off my day on a high note. Just joined this site and am already impressed.
  • mariapg25
    mariapg25 Posts: 48 Member
    Every morning...I see the results as motivation for me either way the scale goes. If it's a good result, I tap myself on the back and see that whatever I'm doing is working and aim to keep doing it. If it's a not so good result, I think of what I did the day before and try to improve. I don't log it every day though. If I get the same weight a few days in a row, then I log it. It makes it real I guess. But to each his own. Good luck!! :smile:
  • ljc73
    ljc73 Posts: 35 Member
    I weigh daily - i can't help it and am not bothered by fluctuation...but i record weekly.
  • christibam
    christibam Posts: 478 Member
    Whenever I remember lol. I used to be obsessed with weighing myself a few times a day but now I *try* to do it once a week. I forget a lot of times though.
  • RondaK1
    RondaK1 Posts: 52 Member
    i do it all day long lol.. doesnt bother me at just i like to see how my body reacts to diff things like food water exercise etc. (ive lost roughly 120lbs)
    I agree completely. I weigh myself everyday and doc it around 6:30 am but I do periodically weigh ..myself throughout the day.. I see the typical fluctuations during the day and I have learned how my body reacts to dif things as well
  • csmoore039
    csmoore039 Posts: 13 Member
    I weigh in the morning and the afternoon. I only count the morning weight. I was getting frustrated because of the fluctuation, but then started looking at the overall picture. Once I realized that I am still averaging 2 lbs a week, it was not so depressing.
  • koalahugs
    koalahugs Posts: 34
    I check my weight weekly, in the morning before a food or exercise.
  • jillebean60
    jillebean60 Posts: 78 Member
    Used to wait to weigh myself when I thought the magical day might've arrived that I'd be less than my previous weight. The day to weigh when I thought that I'd weight less never seemed to come........... So I started weighing first thing every morning NO MATTER WHAT and that's kept me on the right track (including nipping the nighttime noshing thing) better than any other single thing I do. LOVE to see that scale move in the right direction! BEST motivator there is!!!!
  • Impy84
    Impy84 Posts: 430
    i was weighing myself daily and whenever else i wanted. it began to drive me absolutely insane so now i set my phone to alarm once every two weeks so i quit obsessing and doing more harm than good really. and i avoid the scale till then as though it were the plague.

    my overall theory is weigh whenever u feel like it if you can handle fluctuations and such. if not. settle for increments of weekly or bi weekly whatever works for u
  • biglew909
    biglew909 Posts: 57 Member
    Every day.
  • mdmcmillen
    mdmcmillen Posts: 97 Member
    Probably once a day at least.
  • calculusgeek
    calculusgeek Posts: 3 Member
    I like the idea with the jeans!
  • cruzcrzyMarie
    cruzcrzyMarie Posts: 251 Member
    I am a scale addict. My first weigh in of the morning is my official weight which I record, but, I weigh throughout the day. I don't let the results alter my mood. It does however, effect if I have an extra snack in the evening, that kind of thing.
  • kjacobi123
    kjacobi123 Posts: 8
    I weigh myself daily, but only record a once a week weigh in on Friday mornings.
  • bradp1979
    bradp1979 Posts: 154 Member
    I have been weighing daily, too, but I think I need to switch to a weekly weigh-in. Lately, I have been seeing some fairly major fluctuations that have really been confusing me. On Wednesday, I was at 208.6, on Thursday, 207.0, on Friday, 205.4, then on Saturday, 209.6. Nothing changed during those three days in how much I eat or exercise, so the fluctuation must be something beyond my control. If I weigh weekly, I hopefully will lose these somewhat obsessive thoughts about the changes.

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  • medibrat
    medibrat Posts: 30
    I weigh myself every day. Like someone else said, if I don't, then I lie to myself. Make excuses. Get frustrated. I need to see the numbers. I got a scale that is accurate to .2 of a pound. I need to see daily how I'm doing. :)

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