How do you prepare for a weigh-in?

I agree that there's no point doing anything differently than normal, as if you try and manipulate anything you're only kidding yourself.

The important thing is to do it at the same time of day, on the same scales and wearing the same clothes.

For me it's a Tuesday morning, after toilet and shower and always stark naked.

But I confess I'm always slightly disappointed if I haven't needed a poo on weigh-in day!

I just get on the scale and weigh myself.....clothes and all since my doctors office frowns on people stripping down naked to get weighed. :laugh:

I eat as normal as any other day the day before my weigh in.I weigh in on Monday mornings after I use the loo and shower.

I weigh monday mornings. Since I have started losing weight I have had some irregularity here and there. I am still (16 months later) adjusting the way I eat to make my body happy all the time. On sunday I have my usual shake for breakfast, a light lunch (I do not workout so I can restrict a little more) and then a liquid dinner. I do this before 4pm. In my shake for dinner I always add apples or other natural ingrediants that helps keep natural processes. Normally I am able to have a movement that night then weigh in the morning. I still drink water and I stop eating after 4pm because I am normally in bed by 8. I feel cleaner when I have allowed my body a chance to clean out the waste. Might be TMI but I always feel less bloated monday morning and have a good weigh in.

Does anybody find that drinking alcohol the night before a weigh-in seems to make the scale unhappy? I don't drink much (a glass of wine or two or a hard cider) but I try to not drink any the night before a weigh-in because I think it's going to have an effect.

I know that alcohol in general is not a great plan while trying to lose weight, but it helps me calm down. And that's important sometimes.

My weigh-in routine is to walk across the street and the parking lot from my building at work to the building with the nurse's office, go in, stand on the scale, and walk out. I've really got to buy a scale for at home some day soon.

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I try not to get too anxious about weighing in ( i still eat, drink tons of water as usual). I get a good nights rest, and I weigh myself naked every saturday morning after I use the bathroom.
THat day, I start over eating healthy and counting my calories

-- Question though. Do you all decrease your caloric intake weekly?

-Get up
-Pee
-Poo
-Pee again just in case
-Get naked
-Get ride of nipples rings
-Pee.....everydrop count
-Move my scale to the perfect place where it give me 0.1 pounds less everytime
-Consider removing IUD
-Step on the scale
-Stand as tall as possible
-Put my arms in the air
-Exale air in lungs
-Weigh-in












Not really I just don't step on the evil thing

I would like to know what others do the day before and the day of a weigh in. Do you stop eating at a certain time the day before? DO you still drink water? Whats the best way to get an accurate reading?

do not weigh after a work out. its not accurate cuz you lose water weight.
weigh yourself first thing in the morning after you pee.
bowel movements do not shed weight suprisingly. just pee first.

Use the restroom, get naked, stand on scale.

Manipulating your meal timing outside of your normal behavior patterns seems silly. You'd only be fooling yourself and providing less than accurate data.

this is exactly how i do it and how i feel about it. as long as you're consistent with your weigh-ins, including when/how, you should be okay.

I close my eyes and jump on.

You should weigh the morning... as soon as you gget up, pee, get naked and weigh....same way everytime...

I dont do anything different than I would any other day. But maybe that's because I weigh myself every day but only report my losses on Monday.

Monday is my day!!!

Every Friday night after work and a workout I eat a light meal and weigh in. Then I post to myfitnesspal.

But I still weigh in each day.

I dont do much the day before but the day of the weigh in I make sure im naked lol...dont need any extra weight