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    edited January 1 in Health and Weight Loss
    How often do you all weigh in? I've heard a mix of daily and weekly and am wondering what the logic is behind these thoughts!
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    • Posts: 1,018 Member
      Never daily!!! That is nothing but disappointing and discouraging!! You weight can fluctuate daily, bloat, water weight, etc. Personally I go every 2 weeks or even a month, then I am sure to always see results.
    • Posts: 139 Member
      Never daily!!! That is nothing but disappointing and discouraging!! You weight can fluctuate daily, bloat, water weight, etc. Personally I go every 2 weeks or even a month, then I am sure to always see results.

      I agree.
    • Posts: 280 Member
      i weigh myself up to 4 times a day. lol. just because i am curious.
    • Posts: 70
      That I've noticed, most places recommend you weigh once a week, the same time of day, the same day of the week.

      Some people will weigh daily because they like to see how their eating habits effect them on a day to day basis. The only problem with this is water retention. If you have a lot of sodium, you'll retain the water that you drank the day before and can possibly be heavier.

      Some people think that weighing daily can make you go crazy because it does fluctuate depending on if you went to the bathroom, sodium, etc

      Personally, I weigh every day, just because I'm curious...and right now since I'm in the beginning stages I'm losing daily (mostly water weight I'm sure).
    • Posts: 1,887 Member
      Once a week for me is more than enough. Saturday A.M
      I don't need to see the daily ups & downs -I have enough agitta from daily stresses in life that I don't need to add fractions of ounces to it.
    • Posts: 100 Member
      I'm a daily weigher. I need the accountablity and I know not to get discouraged over a slight increase as it is usually gone by the next day!
    • Posts: 836 Member
      I weigh in every Sunday morning. I do it weekly because daily is discouraging with all the fluctuations. I chose Sunday because it keeps me accountable for not overeating on the weekend. :wink:
    • Posts: 71 Member
      ONCE A MONTH! DON'T WANT TO DISCOURAGE MYSELF IF I DIDN'T LOSE. IF I LOSE IN A MONTH, PUSHES ME MORE THE NEXT MONTH! GOOD LUCK!:flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 1,956 Member
      I weigh-in once a week, Saturday mornings. More than that and I get upset at the normal fluctuations.
    • Posts: 32
      I officially "log" my Saturday morning weight. However, I tend to weigh daily but only to see if I am maintaining the weight from the previous weigh in. I have found that I don't see movement on the scales till Thursdays for a Saturday weigh in. For some reason it works that way for me.
    • Posts: 270 Member
      I also weigh daily, to see how what I eat/drink etc affects me. BUT I only log once a week, on Mondays in the morning, first thing when I wake up after using the restroom. Works for me :happy:
    • Posts: 3,220 Member
      I am currently weighing weekly. I prefer to weigh myself on the same day (Saturday) when I first get up.

      I am in the club of not weighing daily since your weight can fluctuate so much from day to day and even throughout the day.
    • Posts: 287 Member
      I try to weigh myself once a week. I used to be glued to the scale, but that was adding stress in my life. I tried even weighing myself once a month to see bigger result, but then I found the weight creeping back up.
    • Posts: 218
      Daily in the morning. Sometimes at night too before I go to bed. I have to monitor my weight frequently because it helps me understand if i ate ok or not. It keeps me on track. But my official weight date and record day is Monday. it keeps me from piggy out in the weekend.
    • Posts: 187 Member
      Im a daily, but I also know when Ive eaten too much sodium or had a bad day- take it in stride and use the average for the week....
    • Posts: 25
      I weigh myself once a week on Thursday nights after working out. We usually only have time to work out at night (plus, there's an 80% chance that we will have the gym to ourselves), and we use their scale. When I changed my calorie intake (meaning upping my calories), I weighed myself in the middle of the week (didn't log it though) just to see if there were any significant changes from the calorie change. I don't feel like weighing myself every day would be beneficial because there wouldn't be a huge change, so I do it weekly. Kudos for the people who try monthly-- I don't think I could wait that long.
    • Posts: 845 Member
      Like another poster, I weigh multiple times a day just to see how my body fluctuates. I don't get upset at the fluctuations, though. It's kind of like a science experiment!

      My check-in weighs are always in the morning if I have a new low weight. Regardless, I write each morning's weight in my planner calendar so I can keep track of the overall trend.

      It works for me, I'm not obsessive, and I now have a cool graph!
    • Posts: 50
      I don't bother! I know I'm eating the right things and doing the right amount of training.
      Used to be awful for it and weigh myself a couple of times a week but got myself out of that mindset and decided I would focus on how I look rather than what the scales say.
    • Posts: 14 Member
      I find once a week on Friday morning when I wake up to be the best. I allow a little less discipline Friday/Saturday if it comes up, then back to strick discipline for the rest of the week. Also try to work out on Saturday mornings so I can eat a tad more if I go out.
    • Posts: 671 Member
      I weigh myself every morning after using the bathroom. I like seeing the fluctuations because it lets me know how certain foods/beverages affect my water retention. After doing this for several months, I can usually predict how many pounds I'll gain if I eat this, that, or the other thing, and I know how long it will take to remove that water weight. It helps keep me disciplined, as in, "Is this dinner really worth stalling my weight loss for four days?"

      My official weigh-in is on Wednesdays.

      Some people can't handle daily weigh-ins, but those of us who like playing with data and causation/correlation don't let it affect our mood. Gaining two pounds of water weight doesn't send me into a binge or make me want to give up; I just drink more water, exercise a little more, and see the number drop 3-4 pounds the next week. No biggie. It isn't a race.
    • Posts: 280 Member
      Never daily!!! That is nothing but disappointing and discouraging!! You weight can fluctuate daily, bloat, water weight, etc. Personally I go every 2 weeks or even a month, then I am sure to always see results.

      ALWAYS daily!!! For almost exactly the same reason!

      Your weight fluctuates every day. I know mine goes up by as much as 5 pounds sometimes. If you weigh yourself daily AND record it daily (that second part is key) you will be able to pull the signal from the noise, i.e. to see if you weight is going down over time despite a few days where your weight is way up.

      If you only weigh weekly or monthly, and you happen to do it on a high water weight day, you might think you aren't losing when you really are and get discouraged. That is what happened to me. I used to think "I am exercising and eating right and I have lost zero pounds this month!" and then give up. Now that I record my weight every day (and graph it in excel), I can see that I am actually losing around 5 pounds a month, even though there are some days when my scale weight is higher.
    • Posts: 198 Member
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      ALWAYS daily!!! For almost exactly the same reason!

      Your weight fluctuates every day. I know mine goes up by as much as 5 pounds sometimes. If you weigh yourself daily AND record it daily (that second part is key) you will be able to pull the signal from the noise, i.e. to see if you weight is going down over time despite a few days where your weight is way up.

      If you only weigh weekly or monthly, and you happen to do it on a high water weight day, you might think you aren't losing when you really are and get discouraged. That is what happened to me. I used to think "I am exercising and eating right and I have lost zero pounds this month!" and then give up. Now that I record my weight every day (and graph it in excel), I can see that I am actually losing around 5 pounds a month, even though there are some days when my scale weight is higher.

      I weigh daily for the same reasons. If I weighed weekly and I went up, I'd be devastated, whereas if I can see the ups and downs and know that overall the number is going down, I'm a happy camper.
    • Posts: 242 Member
      I officially "log" my Saturday morning weight. However, I tend to weigh daily but only to see if I am maintaining the weight from the previous weigh in. I have found that I don't see movement on the scales till Thursdays for a Saturday weigh in. For some reason it works that way for me.
      You could have written this for me because the exact same thing happens to me. The same WI day, monitoring daily to see if I maintain the loss and not seeing a scale movement til Thursday.
    • Posts: 1,188 Member
      This time around - once per month on a day I know I'm not retaining fluid or constipated.

      I used to get myself into so much trouble with the scales. If I lost weight, I relaxed and celebrated with a food treat.
      If I gained, I consoled myself with a food treat.

      Now I'm keeping my focus on my meals and my nutrition and only checking the scales occasionally. I'm considering weight loss a good side effect of changing my eating habits.
    • Posts: 13,247 Member
      Never daily!!! That is nothing but disappointing and discouraging!! You weight can fluctuate daily, bloat, water weight, etc. Personally I go every 2 weeks or even a month, then I am sure to always see results.

      I weigh daily especially BECAUSE of the fluctuations. I understand them now. High sodium? I'm going to weigh more. Heavy lifting? I'm going to weigh more. TOM? I'm going to weigh more.

      If I only weighed once every few weeks, Murphy's Law would dictate that I would weigh on the the one day out of 14 that my weight was up 4 pounds from one of the above. :laugh:

      BUT... I also don't put a lot of stock in the scale.
    • Posts: 622 Member
      Weekly for me, my weight fluctuates too much on a daily basis.
    • Posts: 28
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      ALWAYS daily!!! For almost exactly the same reason!

      Your weight fluctuates every day. I know mine goes up by as much as 5 pounds sometimes. If you weigh yourself daily AND record it daily (that second part is key) you will be able to pull the signal from the noise, i.e. to see if you weight is going down over time despite a few days where your weight is way up.

      If you only weigh weekly or monthly, and you happen to do it on a high water weight day, you might think you aren't losing when you really are and get discouraged. That is what happened to me. I used to think "I am exercising and eating right and I have lost zero pounds this month!" and then give up. Now that I record my weight every day (and graph it in excel), I can see that I am actually losing around 5 pounds a month, even though there are some days when my scale weight is higher.

      I think I'm going to try this out~! I've been SO discouraged lately b/c I usually weigh in on Saturday mornings and after a week of hard work seeing that number go up a few pounds is terrible! Weighing every day will hopefully help me see the little ups and downs and which way im heading overall!

      Thanks for the great ideas!!!
    • Posts: 115 Member
      I have put myself on a schedule of weigh in on a Friday after I work out!! This way I kind of know how I did for the week. I used to weigh in every day, but I have learned that I become to depressed, and I am doing weight watchers online and was told just to do one weigh in per week!! And so far it has helped me out dropping twenty five pounds!!
    • Posts: 1,722 Member
      once every few days... if I don't feel bloated, it's not TOM, etc...
    • Posts: 3,542 Member
      I weigh myself every morning but I only report losses once a week on Monday's. I like to see what my body is up to during the time in between.
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