How often do you weigh yourself? Is it motivating?

I weigh daily. Not for motivation ( in fact, it isn't motivating to me) - it's about keeping it REAL. I find that if I weigh daily I am aware of my body's fluctuations and can see trends, I tend to "freak out" less for the very natural and normal flucuations that we have. For example: seeing a 4 lb overnight increase is easier to deal with and figure out than a 4 lb increase after a week. The way I roll: Water retention isn't REAL weight gain. FAT gain is. Unless you are sleeping with the Colonel and eating a couple of buckets of his chicken, you aren't gaining 4 lbs of FAT overnight . Water retention and gain totally blows goats, but weighing daily helps me keep track of those normal ups and downs and where it's coming from.

I weigh every morning. I have to see what the number is, but I don't get obsessed over it. It just helps to keep me in check. The weight I track and record on here weekly is my Wednesday morning weigh-in.

For the first 85lb I weighed myself weekly, always on Wednesdays. I found with it being the middle of the week I got more consistent results, there just weren't as many fluctuations as on the weekends due to more or less sleep, more or less food, more or less exercise, whereas, my routine M-F is pretty steady.

Since then I'd say I weigh myself weeklyish. Sometimes a couple times a week on whatever day I feel like, and mostly out of curiosity to see the different effects that travel, food and sleeping patterns have on my body, and sometimes I go a little longer than a week, as the numbers just don't concern me as much as they did.

What I have ramped up is my body measurements, at the start in April I measured every month and a half. But since September I've done measurements about every 2-4 weeks.

In terms of motivation, my weight loss numbers were very motivating, but now that I'm pretty well where I want to be (within 10 lbs of fat roughly), a pound or two is no big deal. It's now the measurements that motivate me the most. For instance I measured yesterday and my stomach circumference dropped a inch over two and a half weeks, granted it hadn't moved the two weeks before that, so maybe it was due..lol. During the same two week period of my stomach losing an inch, my neck, chest, arms and legs were pretty well unchanged (lost a 1/4 inch off my chest, gained a 1/4 inch on my legs [thank-you squats], neck and arms were unchanged). Now that to me is awesome motivation, as it tells me that in conjunction with my weight workouts where I'm either gaining strength or static, that I'm most likely burning off fat from my body (my stomach is my last problem area, as the rest of my body is pretty lean) without sacrificing muscle or at least without sacrificing very much of it.

In the end do what works for you, but I highly encourage everyone to take body measurements. Because it's amazing what the tale of the tape shows. Since April I'm down 15 inches off my stomach, 10 off my chest, and 7 off my waist (where I wear my jeans). If I didn't have those numbers I'd never believe the change was that dramatic.

Daily. If I go 3 pounds over my threshold, I can get back to my target weight without too much effort. I have read in multiple places that people that successfully maintain their weight loss weigh themselves daily. This may be better advice for people that have reached their goal.

I weigh myself every Friday morining as soon as I wake up and right before jump in the shower. This is the ONLY time I weigh myself. I make sure I record my weight on my personal calendar wether I have gained or lost weight.

Hope this helps!

It used to be motivating, but after 6 weeks with no loss and 2 lb gain, not so much. I hate my scale right now.

I have heard many schools of thought on how often to weigh yourself. But, I'd love to hear how people use it as a motivation. Do you weigh daily and track the little ups and downs? Weekly?

I weigh every 2-3 times per week on average, but I do go through phases where I weigh daily depending on food/exercise.

I weigh myself every day and record it on a calender next to my scale, but I only report it on Wednesdays on MFP due to fluctuations.

I'd like to say once a week but I get too impatient and it ends up being every 2 or 3 days - in a way it's good though because I can see the little changes as the days go by

Looks like I'm definitely in the minority here...I weigh in multiple times daily. First thing in the morning and at least 2 more times before leaving the house the last one fully dressed... I also weigh in when I come home...I log the morning and evening weights in the food notes portion of my diary along with the 5 week prediction...this way I can have all of the information available to me easily... I regret not having started recording it sooner so that I could have a clear trend...I find the scale to be incredibly motivational...as time progresses I see definite patterns emerging... anyway it works for me...even when I get frustrated by an expected gain at least I knew it was coming

The reports section of MFP will show you trends, that way you don't have to log every teeny tiny little thing. I know it's easier for me to look back on those and see weight vs caloric intake vs exercise, etc.

I personally weigh every morning (except the day before my official weigh-in). It's motivating watching the numbers change and seeing how what I've eaten the previous day affects my body and what changes should be made.

I weigh myself every morning. It helps me watch trends with food and water consumption, as well as the amount of exercise I did that day.

I don't weigh, because as I gain muscle and lose fat, I'm not going to see much weight loss. I do my measurements, this helps me accurately see my true progress And of course how much better the clothes fit without the measurements! I may step on it every couple of months just to see where I stand.

I weigh daily. I found that I would fall off track at the beginning because I would overeat, then not weigh the next morning because I didn't want to see the damage on the scale, and this would go on for days, etc. I only record a loss in MFP when it's the same weight 3 days in a row. I don't record gains.

Sometime's it's annoying. Like yesterday I was under my calories (1400) but over my sodium because I had soup for dinner and showed a 2 lb gain on the scale this morning. I know it's water retention from the soup, but still, ugh. At least I know to cool it on the sodium and it should go back down.

ETA: I take measurements at the beginning of every month too, which means more to me than what the jerk on the floor says.

Once every morning. Keeps me focused.