My case for weighing yourself every day.

I weigh myself once a week after being 'cleared out' if you know what I mean :P This way when I weigh myself I get an accurate reading. For me, there is no need to weigh in everyday because my diary reflects my weight loss accurately. After a week of following my diary strictly, I know that I have lost weight - I don't even have to weigh in, but I do obviously!

Same. My scale makes a handy chart that shows my ups & downs all the way back from March, and it's been super helpful and it keeps me motivated. (I have the fitbit aria scale)

Even if I get a freak day where it seems like I've lost 3lbs and I really haven't - it pushes me because I know I can get there. It's attainable :-)

Honestly, I just look at it as data. It can't hurt me...I know I won't step on it and be right back where I started. Maybe where I was last week, but that just pushes me to look at what I've been doing between then and now and I go from there. It doesn't work for everyone, but it definitely does for me.

I agree with you Marty! I like to weigh daily. I find when I go off track I ignore the scale because I am in denial and don't wanna know, but when I am on track I am excited to see if I went down a little each day. But I know that it fluctuates so I don't get discouraged if it is up one day.

Dawn

I totally agree with your thinking. I weigh every day because I don't want my one certain day to be the day that it's the highest.

This is why my scale now resides in the very back of the linen closet. I have not weighed in 3 weeks. I will not weigh again until 01-01-13. I am seeing great losses of inches from lifting heavy - but not a lot of pounds. I want to abolish the mindset that the scale is the be all. It's just too discouraging. :sad:

I used to weigh once a week, then it became every day, and finally several times a day. I have had enough. Nobody sees the number on the scale, but everybody notices when you lose inches! :noway:

Just me

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I have fluctuated between 57.2 & 60.5 for the past 5 months. If I were to go by scale weight it doesn't show what has been really happening. August 4th I got to 57.2 & right now Im in the 60's. I'm thinner than I was 5 months ago. I'm getting my measurements & skin folds taken on Wednesday. I'll post my update. My clothes are getting looser, people keep saying I've lost more weight & my regular photos are showing a difference. I can see arm definition now, as my fat has stripped away. The muscles can be seen.

It's funny because they say you can't put on muscle when in a calorie deficit but I swear my boy must be going through some kind of a slow recomp. It surely can't be all fluid retention weight. I think my muscles, bones must be getting slightly heavier (also the muscle will be retaining fluid as it repairs. So I'm in fact replacing fat with all the factors mentioned.

I'm 5, 2 & 60 & I'll be lucky to reach 57 kg I reckon with the amount of LBM I have. I've lost 32 kg since April 2010 & the last 2 years have been a slow recomp eating between 1700-2200 depending on activity levels. I exercise intensely and lift very heavy.

I have often heard that you shouldn't weigh yourself every day because your weight will fluctuate and you may be discouraged. Well if you weigh in once a week and that happens to be the day you fluctuate up, tell me that is not discouraging having no weight loss in a week.

Ok getting to my point, I weigh in every day and today just happened to be a new low and that is encouraging. If I am up a pound tomorrow big whoop, I am fluctuating but if I reach another new low in a few days or a week from now, hey that shows real progress and makes me want to hit another new low. Maybe it's a case of "whatever works for you" but to me it just makes more sense of tracking real progress.

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Marty

I do exactly the same and agree.

At first, I weighed every day. Then twice a day. Then I found myself hopping on the scale every chance I got. Surely, losing weight would not work like watching a pot of hot water just about to boil, right?! It'd just magically come off, right?!

Now, I drove myself crazy. I knew I didn't want to do a weekly weigh in (I tried to wait a day and couldn't even get that far), but for me, I decided that *once* was just fine. Once a day. First thing in the morning.

At first, before I got my FitBit Aria scale that told me the fat %, I was aiming just for a number. Now, though, weighing every day gives me so much data. And there's nothing I like more than pretty charts full of numbers that I can calculate into a programmable display. (Little too much of my software engineering comes to play here... >.>)

1) It shows me how what I ate the night before has affected my body.
2) It shows me a way more accurate way to predict when my monthly cycle is about to come. (which, until now, has been largely based on just time).
3) It shows me that over time, my weight is trending down, as is my body fat. That my lean muscle tends to stay about even with a slight loss.
4) It also allows me to "guestimate" about when I might start shedding pounds. Because when I stay steady at X% body fat, and then suddenly shoot up, I know that likely as I've lost the fat, I've retained some water. And sure enough, a few days later, I'll have dropped two or so pounds.

(Boy would I LOVE it if my body actually just magically dropped two pounds each week like MFP and FitBit tells me I should be! Instead, it's an overall average, and having historical data also tells me about when I'll be losing the weight -- though it's not entirely predictable, obviously, as the body is about as predictable as the weather.)

Now, weighing every day is not for everyone. A friend weighs once a week, but I'd die if I weighed on the day that I had that 2-3 pound water weight increase, thinking I was not moving at all. So, each person needs to choose what's best for them.

So long as it's going in the right direction, that's what matters!

I weigh around twice a week. When I know I didn't have a ton of sodium the day before and after I've went to the bathroom. I don't have a bowel movement every day in the morning so I weigh myself on days I do in the morning...

I find that whenever I weigh myself more than once a week, I'm obsessing.

Just saying. :flowerforyou: My personal take.

I completely agree. I also think it's important to record your weight. If you record it and graph it you will see that even though your weight goes up and down all the time, the trend will be obvious whether you are losing/gaining/maintaining. If everyone did it this way it might cut down on a lot of the "I lost/gained blank pounds in 1 week/day/night" posts too.

I weigh in everyday too. I'm a numbers junkie. I graph my weight on hackersdietonline.

If I don't weigh every day its because I've slacked off on eating, logging and exercising and I don't want to hear what the scale has to say. Otherwise, I weigh daily, first thing in the morning, nekkid! That really is the best way for me to stay accountable.

I like weighing every day because I think it desensitizes me to the million little weight fluctuations you can have. This actually helps to keep me from freaking out about a weight gain and helps me recognize trends.

For instance, right now the scale shows that I've gained 3 pounds. Is that actual 3 pounds of fat or something else? Well I've been working out really hard for the last week plus I'm not getting enough sleep and just got through some really stressful shifts at work. I'm pretty sure it's just a result of being stressed, tired, and water weight. If I just weighed in once a week or less, I'd be more upset about the weight gain. However, since I weigh in daily I'm not too worried about it right now and will continue on my journey.

I weigh myself every day or at least every other day, but I only record it here if I dropped at least 1 lb. I would be so disappointed if I waited all week, working hard to not go over my calories, thinking I was doing really good and anxious to see my reward of the scale number registering lower than it was, only to find out that I had not budged or even gained. That could possibly destroy my motivation to even try, so weighing daily or every other day works best for me.

I try not to weigh in daily, preferring weekly. Daily fluctuates too much and, whilst initially weight loss was my goal, my goal now is changing to be the size of my waist. For this, which hole I'm using in my belt is a fantastic measure!

I'm same like most of you, I weight in first thing in the morning and before bed, so far I have lost 5 kg in 45+ days on mfp, and I'm gona keep doing what I do now, even some people think its unhealthy to be upsets with scale but I don't care it works for me.