How often do you weigh yourself?

Every week..... And it hasn't moved, yet my pants are falling off me .... So *kitten* the scale!!!!

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Every single day. A few articles in the new york times last january drove this decision for me. Here is an excerpt from the article about a group of people who have lost weight and managed to successfully keep it off (a very small percentage of all people who lose weight which was the very depressing jist of the article entitled "The Fat Trap" New York Times magazine January 1 2012....

[The National Weight Control Registry tracks 10,000 people who have lost weight and have kept it off. “We set it up in response to comments that nobody ever succeeds at weight loss,” says Rena Wing, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, who helped create the registry with James O. Hill, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado at Denver. “We had two goals: to prove there were people who did, and to try to learn from them about what they do to achieve this long-term weight loss.” Anyone who has lost 30 pounds and kept it off for at least a year is eligible to join the study, though the average member has lost 70 pounds and remained at that weight for six years.

Wing says that she agrees that physiological changes probably do occur that make permanent weight loss difficult, but she says the larger problem is environmental, and that people struggle to keep weight off because they are surrounded by food, inundated with food messages and constantly presented with opportunities to eat. “We live in an environment with food cues all the time,” Wing says. “We’ve taught ourselves over the years that one of the ways to reward yourself is with food. It’s hard to change the environment and the behavior.”

There is no consistent pattern to how people in the registry lost weight — some did it on Weight Watchers, others with Jenny Craig, some by cutting carbs on the Atkins diet and a very small number lost weight through surgery. But their eating and exercise habits appear to reflect what researchers find in the lab: to lose weight and keep it off, a person must eat fewer calories and exercise far more than a person who maintains the same weight naturally. Registry members exercise about an hour or more each day — the average weight-loser puts in the equivalent of a four-mile daily walk, seven days a week. They get on a scale every day in order to keep their weight within a narrow range. They eat breakfast regularly. Most watch less than half as much television as the overall population. They eat the same foods and in the same patterns consistently each day and don’t “cheat” on weekends or holidays. They also appear to eat less than most people, with estimates ranging from 50 to 300 fewer daily calories. ]

I weigh myself every morning. I find it interesting to compare weight vs calorie intake/exercise and see the fluctuation day by day (Sad I know). Say I weighed myself once a week on Saturday mornings but went out for beers & a curry on the Friday, it'd be demotivating to see that weight on me - and have to a whole week to get a more genuine reading - when in reality I'd have weighed much less the morning before.

Every 2 weeks!

Atleast once a week but like some of us, we cant wait to see the numbers on the scale to go down, so we weigh ourselves everyday, remember to weigh in the morning right after you take your first pee, I know gross but it's true!

everyday