Daily weighing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Totally Frustrated!!!!!!!!

Go back to weighing weekly then! Weight can fluctuate by a couple of pounds from day to day, or stay static for a while before dropping, so if you're finding daily weighing stressful and frustrating, stop doing it!

Yeah the scale has driven me crazy over the last year. I started My Fitness Pal in December of last year (2011) and have lost around 127 pounds over the last 10 months. There were times where I steadily lost weight but those times were very rare for me. My body likes to stay at a weight for a long time and sometimes even put on more water weight which is even more frustrating and then all of a sudden dump a bunch of the weight all at once. It is frustrating because I would like to have more day to day instant gratification but I have come to the conclusion that my body just won't lose weight that way. I have stuck to the program no matter what the scale has told me and if things continue like they have I should reach my target weight in December. That will be 150 lbs lost in one year by simply trusting the program. I also want to mention that I have a very inactive lifestyle and I do not exercise at all. This is going to change in 2012 but it goes to show that My Fitness Pal works great. You can do it! Trust the program and you WILL lose the weight.

I dunno, I started weighing myself daily and at first it was stressful, but there is a pattern that happens with weight fluctuation that you will get the hang of recognizing (if you continue). But, if you feel that seeing it every day really brings you down, go back to weekly weighing.

If you weigh yourself every day and are not losing and it depresses you, then weighing yourself less often makes the depression happen less often. But you still will not be losing weight.

If someone tells you that your weight goes up and down and the scales do not tell the whole story- this is true. But if you weigh yourself less often then the chances of weighing on the day your weight drops is less.

Better to weight everyday and if you are not losing weight - you find out sooner, weigh yourself once a month and it will be months before you face the reality that you have not been losing and something needs to change in your lifestyle.

BTW the first month I was on MFP I gained weight.

I weigh myself everyday before dressing and eating.

IF you want some help to get rid of ups and downs in weight try http://physicsdiet.com/

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Throughout the day as you eat, drink, breathe, sweat, and use the restroom your weight varies. In fact, from one day to the next your weight can vary by as much as 13 1/2 pounds.

That is why most people recommend that you don't weigh yourself every day. It is emotionally draining to look at the scale one day and see that you've lost 3 pounds, only to look at it the next day to see that you've gained 5 pounds. Most people, including me, can't take that kind of emotional abuse.

That was the genius of John Walker's The Hacker's Diet. He knew that those random variations are just noise. To really understand how you are doing on a diet you need to filter out that noise. And there are plenty of tools in the mathematical toolbox to filter out such noise. After a bit of trial and error John Walker settled on using an exponentially smoothed moving average. And that is what the PhysicsDiet.com uses too.

I'm kind of a data nerd...the more the better. I weigh every day and log it in a spreadsheet along with calories consumed, exercise calories, and net calories. Every week I average the weight and net calories. I don't obsess over the daily weighings because I am more concerned over how I'm trending on a weekly basis with respect to the net calories. If trending in a direction I like, I don't change anything. If trending in a direction I don't like, I do nothing for one week and reassess. If the results are still trending wrong then I adjust the calorie levels.

It's certainly not a rapid process, but it allows me to make decisions based on rigor instead of emotion. Also, if I weighed only once a week it may be on a day where I'm fluctuating high/low - thus causing me to make a calorie decision based on erroneous info.

Good luck.