Weighing Myself

I have that problem well had that problem. There's really no real advice anyone can give u except to just weigh urself once a week. It may be hard but u gotta just fight the urge n have the will power to do so.

I used to weigh myself a couple times a week and it was just a downer on me. Personally, I couldn't handle it. Then I made myself a promise to weigh myself once a week and I noticed how much less stressful I actually felt (no matter the result) So I just kept the promise to myself.

Sometimes it's tempting to get on it more than once a week. But I don't. Remember, we are bigger than *any* kind of temptation.

I have the same problem. I told myself Monday that I wasn't going to weigh myself until Friday morning but I've been on the scale the last 2 mornings! *argh*

You could always put the numbers in a spreadsheet and make a line graph of it and add a trendline. Then you can feel comforted that its trending down and you could keep track of the upward flux causes. TOM? Sodium? Muscle recovery? Big dinner the night before? Dehydrated? Constipated? (Seriously) They all flux your weight so keeping track of what might impact you can help you realize what caused today's gain or tomorrow's loss.

Personally I know I weigh a good 2 lbs less weekend mornings because I sleep 12 hours instead of 6. That's a lot longer to digest yesterday's food and fast. I sweat in my sleep so I likely lose a bunch of water weight too. Monday morning is a bit of a bummer when it jumps back up but it's still less than the previous Monday.

Put the scale in an incovient location after your weigh in. It's not nearly as tempting to weigh yourself when you have to go get a step stool to get the scale off a high shelf in the closet.

Miralax. Keeps you regular.

Don't stress the little weight gains. Sometimes if you consume foods high in sodium, you can have a weight gain of 5lbs. It's not a big deal. That goes away. You can also gain 5 lbs and look it during your period. Again, your regular weight will return. You should focus on where you are today compared to when you started your diet, rather than comparing what your number is on any particular day. Personally, I weigh myself everyday and I know that I make healthy decisions and that's what matters. I do eat really bad sometimes but it's okay because I am never going back to what I was and I trust myself that I will not allow that to happen. Keep doing what you're doing right and weigh yourself as often as you wish. Just don't get upset about fluctuations.

I have trust issues with scales - is it right? Is it calibrated? Why do 5 scales tell me 5 different numbers?

So I use my drs scale...when I'm in for an appt, I weigh. And THAT'S it. I use a tape measure and how my clothes fit to tell me I'm moving in the right direction.

Also, no matter how much I work out or how little I eat, I don't lose weight. I'm some weird freak of nature. And it's depressing. So I had to break up with my scale. :-)

I think she was trying to say your daily weight is very dependent on how much water you have drank and how much food you actually have in your stomach and digestive system. I weight myself 2x a day, once before bed after I get undressed and go to the bathroom and once after i wake up and use the bathroom but I usually only pay attention to the morning amount. I also only log my weight once a week even though I check it every day.

I weigh myself every morning except weekends. Just the way I do it. My weight fluctuates, but there is a steady downward trend. You have to look at the long haul...not the day to day. Are you losing over a weeks time? If you are working out and dieting you absolutely MUST drink a lot of water or constipation is a real risk. And all of those things affect your weight. Don't sweat the day to day...just ignore the fluctuation and keep at it. Also, if it is bothering you, work out in the evening after supper and only drink some water afterwards...no food. Its a "false loss" but in my experience i usually show the biggest gains when I do that. Its really more psychological than logical.

I weigh myself twice a day - once right before I hop in bed (literally from the scale into bed) and once in the morning after I've showered and done all my other morning activities, especially before I've dressing and eaten. I'll gain 1-3 pounds from morning to night and will lose 1-2 pound from night to morning. The really odd thing is that if I weigh myself right when I wake up, before I do anything, I will weigh the sames as when I went to bed. But after I've been up for an hour I will have lost the 1-2 pounds. This happens whether or not I urinate or have a bowel movement so those seem to be only partial factors.

I only log my weight in to MFP once a week (Tuesdays), but log all my weight into a spreadsheet and calculate 3day and 7day averages so I can get a better sense of a trend. I'm probably going to start logging the 7day average into MFP because I tend to weight less on Mondays than Tuesdays, which gets annoying. If I take the average, then it doesn't matter on which day I weighed the least.

You have to convince yourself of the reality - as long as you are in a deficit state, you will yield only a false gain in fat mass regardless of what you eat. Our bodies fluctuate noticeably throughout the week when making even minor changes in sodium and carb intake despite sustaining the same caloric amount.