How Often Do You Weigh-In?

my vote is once a week. resist the urge to do it daily. resist the urge to do it several times a day. These only lead to disapointment if you stay the same or do not lose. so once a week. Anyway it takes a 3500 calorie defecit to lose a pound and you cannot do that in one day.

I think it depends on how well you can handle the natural fluctuations of weight loss. I weigh quite often (up to twice a day when I am curious), but only record net losses. I like to watch the weight go up and down normally, so that when I see a strange jump either way I can try to think about why.

I think weighing often (twice a day at most) helps you to realize how your body naturally gains weight throughout a day, week, or during periods of stress. Knowing the natural cycles will help you pick out plateaus faster, and you will also be less "freaked out" by a 1 or 2 pound gain, than if you only weigh once a week (this usually only happens if you weigh at very different times, like morning vs evening, or after a large meal, etc).

I'm not against weighing once a week... I think it is the best way to go. But if you can handle watching your weight naturally fluctuate then I think it would be a valuable experience to weigh twice a day and make little mental notes on what you see.

Edit: I wanted to mention that I have been losing consistently for 4 weeks (6 lbs) but often will see gains of 1 to 2 lb within a day, which will gradually go down overnight). It feels normal, I'm definitely losing, and doesn't stay with me, so I don't fret over it.

I weigh and track daily. Even have a spreadsheet that I log into and graph from. But it doesn't bother me to see fluctuations. My charts show lots of ups and downs, but as long as the overall trend is moving in the right direction, I don't stress over it. One thing daily tracking did really help was figuring out food intollerances. I can gain up to 5lbs overnight in water retention if I eat something that my system doesn't like.

Usually every two weeks. I do not own a pair of scales because if I did, I'd be on them every five minutes!

I used to ALWAYS be on the scale. Now I weight myself once a week/every two weeks. Good luck!

When I began I weighed up to three times each day - I felt like I needed to know what my body's natural weight rythym was and discovered I would fluctuatue up to 4.5 pounds over the course of one day. Knowing this helped me stress less over those natural fluctuations. At the beginning, I lost rapidly and weighed frequently. Recently, however, since I have less than 10 pounds to go, I weigh once a month only.

I weigh daily so I can see a trend and it gives me more motivation when you see it going down. Even if it is only 0.1lbs

You can weigh as often as you like, however, choose one day a week (the same day and time every week) that you count. For instance, I weigh on Friday mornings before I have anything to eat/drink, after I got to the restroom and just before I step in the tub. I may step on the scale intermittently during the week but I only count my Friday to Friday weights.

I weigh daily after I wake up in the mornings, but I only have an official weigh in day on Friday mornings.

i do the same exact thing! :happy:

I try to weigh myself once a week. If I weigh more than that, I start to get obsessive with the scale ... This varies from person to person ...

Daily, first thing in the morning.

I usually weigh myself every day. The fluctuation doesn't bother me much, especially when my clothes are telling a different story. But the official one is always Saturday mornings when I get up. Then I also have time to take measurements too.

I weigh in like 3 times a day, lol I know it's bad but the scale is in my bathroom & it's so hard to walk by it!

I weigh myself twice a day, once in the morning post bathroom and once at night before bed. There are several reason for this, most people will disagree with my approach.

First and foremost, the numbers on the scale do not make me depressed, sad, angry, unmotivated. If the numbers make other people feel this way, my approach may not be best for them, but , it might also relieve a lot of scale anxiety too. To each their own...

I like weighing myself this way because it gives me solid daily examples of how my body reacts to what I eat and how I exercise. I know how much I can expect my weight to go up at the end of the day and a 16 hour five pound weight gain doesn't freak me out because I know that when I weigh myself in the morning it will be gone. I understand very well how my body is going to gain and lose water weight and I have been able to quickly identify things that will stall me - even if all my macros and my calorie intake are perfect.

I only "keep" my morning weight and that is what I use for tracking. This number goes up and goes down, as long as it trends downward over time, I know I'm on the right track. I don't feel that waiting a week or two (or four...) for that information is helpful for me. I like the data and the more data I have, the better I can predict my future outcomes. My weight loss has increased dramatically since I gave up once weekly weighing - and the number doesn't make me crazy, now I look forward to hopping on the scale in the morning because it is a tool that is helping me reach my goals.

I weigh whenever I feel like it, but only log it every 3-4 days. My scale is next to my computer desk, so it serves both to motivate me not to sit on my butt looking at the internet for hours, and to sate my curiosity about what the numbers are.