How to keep track when.. weight your self once per week?

I only weigh in every 2 weeks, and measure every 2 weeks.

I think weighing every week discourages me, especially if I am retaining water. I prefer measuring because then at least I know I am losing inches if not weight.

I set different goals for myself, rather than just lose 2lbs a week I challenge myself to go to the gym X# of times per week. Right now I am challenging myself to train for a Half Marathon. My Goal is Mon, Wed and Saturday to complete my training goal for the marathon, Tuesday, Friday and Sunday doing some other form of exercise, weight lifting, classes or swimming. I challenge myself to cook my own meals, I prep easy to store food on Sundays. I watch my Sodium. I challenge myself to keep the MFP numbers either at or a bit under what they recommend (Sodium, Sugars, Carbs and Fats.) I always go over on Iron and Protien but I am less concerned about them.

I am trying for a healthier life style, rather than worrying about where my weight is. I am seeing much faster results with my current goals than with my weight loss goals. Don't get me wrong, I do need to lose weight, but the scale can really dampen my spirits and lead me to do unhealthy things. This is a complete mental overhaul for me.

I weigh myself most days, but I only count the weight I see no the scale on Tuesdays. This can be frustrating, when Monday tells me I'm a pound lighter than Tuesday, but I do it anyway.

That way, I can go a little crazy on Friday and maybe Saturday, but still have Sunday and Monday to make up for it. I like once a week counting because it's like setting short-term goals for myself every week, and the expectations aren't so high that I get discouraged like I did when I counted my weigh ins every day.

I weigh myself daily just to keep myself on track. I also attend Weight Watcher meeting and get weighed in on Tuesdays and use that number to update my weight tracker. I use this app and attend Weight Watchers and I have found them both to be pretty accurate on the calories/points.

Hey all,

I see alot of water retention with my weight... (up to 3 pounds per day). So I want to weight my self once per week.

What I would like to know is

1- Do you feel like weighting your self once per week, accelerates you weight loss?

2- My fear of doing this (weightin in once per week) is that I would lose track of myself and GAIN weight, so if you are doing this, how do you keep track of your self?


Would love your feedback!

Thanks,

When you weigh yourself will neither accelerate or decelerate your weight loss. That's done through diet (exercise surely doesn't hurt).

I weigh once a week and I don't think about it much the rest of the time unless I've changed something (like when I started exercising and when I upped my daily calorie intake). I give it several days and then check just to see if I'm on the right track. But I don't sweat what's on the scale either way, really. It's nice motivation, but like you noted, weight can fluctuate for a LOT of reasons. I just weigh at the same time of day (first thing in the morning, after I pee, and always wearing the same thing (for me, nothing)) and try to stick to just once a week. My overall goal has to do with fitness, health, and happiness with my appearance, none of which a scale can give me, so I don't worry much over what numbers pop up.