I'm afraid to update my weight!

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  • rudimae
    rudimae Posts: 107
    I've decided to go the route of weighing myself when I choose, but only recording it on Fridays. I use the scale available at my office to weigh myself since I think it's more accurate than the cheap one I have at home. On my scale, you can weigh yourself, get one number, step right back on and get a few pounds different. The one at the office is like the kind at a doctor's office.

    So I just did my Friday weigh in...down 5 more pounds! Yay me! :)
  • hpettenger
    hpettenger Posts: 27 Member
    Why not just pick one day and time per week to weigh in (Example- I weigh every Sunday morning as soon as I wake up)

    You can weigh other times, but only record this one day, even if you see a gain.

    Ditto. I weigh once a week, so I don't stress over stupid numbers. By the time my weigh day comes I don't even remember what my weight was for the previous week. It helps me focus on the work at hand and not the numbers.
  • puzuk
    puzuk Posts: 4 Member
    You should only weigh in one time a week. The same time, same place, wearing basically the same thing. I think if you want to look at the scale again during the week that's ok but don't record it. we fluctuate so much from day to day. I know i can be up 3 lbs. one day from water retention and the next day be down a pound. So don't frustrate yourself like that!

    Here Here!
  • lesliefb
    lesliefb Posts: 88 Member
    I weigh myself every day, but only record once a week on Tuesday. If it's much higher or lower than I expect, I will wait to record it until I weigh myself again on Wednesday to see if it was a fluke.

    A few years ago, I lost 50+ lbs with some Weight Watchers and some South Beach Diet. I kept it off for a few years, but slowly gained it back. During the time that I was slowly gaining it back, I would RARELY weigh myself. It was like "Oooh, I should weigh myself. Uh oh... up 6 lbs... I need to eat more salad or something." Then forget about it completely until 4 months later and then I stepped on the scale and had another "uh oh" moment. Then slowly.... stopping weighing myself at all.

    So for me, I need to weigh myself every day now to keep myself on track. I've made it part of my new routine, for better or worse. Wake up, go potty, get undressed, weigh myself, take a shower.

    Anyhow, different people have different habits, but for tracking weight loss most pick one day a week to record it.
  • lesliefb
    lesliefb Posts: 88 Member
    I've decided to go the route of weighing myself when I choose, but only recording it on Fridays. I use the scale available at my office to weigh myself since I think it's more accurate than the cheap one I have at home. On my scale, you can weigh yourself, get one number, step right back on and get a few pounds different. The one at the office is like the kind at a doctor's office.

    So I just did my Friday weigh in...down 5 more pounds! Yay me! :)

    Congrats!!! (celebrate by buying yourself a new scale? lol)
  • SueGlazier
    SueGlazier Posts: 36 Member
    I weigh myself every morning first thing and every night just before getting into bed and record this for my own records but only update it on MFP when I have lost anything. I have noticed weekly pattern. We have pizza on a friday night for dinner and this obviously makes me retain some water, so my saturday and sunday weights are usually slightly up on the friday am weight. Thats not a problem now as I know that by monday pm or tuesday am I will have lost the water weight and this is the figure I am working on. My weight can fluctuate by 2lb between morning and bed time weigh ins so again that does not worry me.
  • jeolds
    jeolds Posts: 104 Member
    I weigh in every morning when I get up and record it. I cheat though. Even if I weight the same, my scale lets me track Body Fat Percentage, Total Body Water Weight, Muscle Weight and Bone Mass. Knowing all of those things I have had some days where I gained two pounds over a course of a week, but the body fat percentage went down and the muscle mass went up. The only catch is that I have to do the weight in the morning and the body fat and other numbers about an hour before dinner to be accurate on both counts.

    Information is key though. You can better track the effects of certain foods or eating habits when you provide more to the system. Knowing the other numbers helps keep the discouragement away because I can recognize I am still making progress. I really don't care if I stay at 240 lbs as long as I am back under 20% body fat and I'm healthy. At that point I could care less about an inaccurate BMI and all the other ridiculous numbers the health & life insurance companies and government rely on.

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  • deb3129
    deb3129 Posts: 1,294 Member
    I generally weight myself almost every day, and there are frequently small fluctuations. I don't log it as a weight loss unless I see the same lower weight two days in a row
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Why not just pick one day and time per week to weigh in (Example- I weigh every Sunday morning as soon as I wake up)

    You can weigh other times, but only record this one day, even if you see a gain


    this^

    ^^^ Agree with this.

    Once per week at the same time on the same day of the week. That keeps it more consistent.
  • lulu3561
    lulu3561 Posts: 85 Member
    OWN IT! good advice is to pick a day and use that day as your "official" weigh in you should also weigh in around the same time of the day. I know how you feel everytime I lose more than 2 pounds in a week I start doubting and and think it must be a fluke. But if I lose less than 2 I beat myself up. One week I lost 8.6 pounds and it took 3 more weeks for me to believe it was real..because I thought I would just put it back on the next week. Sometimes the scale doesn't reward you in the same week...but track this and if you go up a pound next weigh in remember as long as you are eating right and exercising it's not FAT your gaining. Keep up the great work and BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! :happy:
  • MissiBurton
    MissiBurton Posts: 2
    i say just keep doing what your doing and be proud of the progress you have made.
  • jakki_brown
    jakki_brown Posts: 142 Member
    Scales are such a danger to your success sometimes. Your weight will fluctuate depending on what you've eaten and what time of the day it is. When I splurge and eat pizza (which is more often than I should!), I can hold on to water weight from all the sodium for days!

    Pick a day and I time to weigh and only do it ONCE a week! This is the best way to do it. I weigh in the morning before I get in the shower every Wednesday.
  • TheRealParisLove
    TheRealParisLove Posts: 1,907 Member
    Just be honest. Most people are too focused on themselves to pay attention to what everyone else is doing, anyway. MFP does not send a blast message to your friends list that says "So-and-so just ate a huge Pizza! It looks like she needs some encouragement!" This site is very positive reinforcement focused.

    If you are brutally honest with yourself and log everything, you will be successful. I plan for my blow-out days. It is usually a weekend, but not always. I always log what I eat on my blowout days as well. My next blowout day is Sunday. I'm taking myself out to a nice Italian restaurant and I'm going to enjoy some bread and pasta since I restrict refined carbs most of the time. No guilt, and all pleasure.

    If we are going to be successful over the long term, we have to keep the pleasure in our lives.

    Edited to add: As far as daily weigh ins, I do this. I record my weight every morning when I get up. I have about a 2 pound natural fluctuation. When the scale is up slightly, I find this motivating to stick to my plan. When the scale is down I find this motivating to stick to my plan.

    I was out of town last weekend, so I didn't weigh in. I had doughnuts, pancakes, chocolate chip granola bars, hot dogs, macaroni salad, sausage, a panini sandwich and coffee at Starbucks. Ugh! I need to see my numbers to stay on track.

    Just do whatever works best for you. If you aren't getting the results you want, then change your approach.

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