Why do people weigh themselves so much?

I weigh every morning and I like seeing the fluctuations. It lets me know how my body reacts to certain eating patterns and TOM. It doesn't matter if I had a bad day of eating or a good day---any time you weigh yourself after eating, you will see a gain from the volume of food.

Also, I mentioned to my friends today how the scale LIES! I weighed myself as soon as I woke today and was a certain weight, then after the shower (dry hair, dry body, no food still) and gained a pound and a half in that 20 minutes :laugh: It reminds me that I shouldn't trust the scale and pay attention to my inches and my clothes


ETA: I don't usually weigh myself multiple times in a short period but I saw a number today I hadn't seen in a long time and wanted to see it again.....which didn't happen haha!

People think the weight will drop after 1 day of eating correctly and exercising, only to realize it varies based on a ton of different factors.. They want to see instant results from their sacrifice.

I enjoy the science behind the fluctuations. I like seeing an overall trend. But then, I'm a total nerd. Also helps that FINALLY, the number on the scale doesn't really mean all that much to me.

data collection. I know how my weight fluctuates during my cycle. How my birth control affected my weight when I first started taking it. How, what types of foods, and sodium intake, etc will affect it...

I weigh daily as well. Mainly so then the scale goes up or down, I have enough data to see if it is real or not. Simply having one datapoint for a relatively inaccurate measurement is pretty useless.

I weigh every single morning right after my shower before drinking or eating anything. I track it in a spread sheet with a line for each week where I compute the maximum, minimum, and average for the week. While the trend for me has been steadily declining over time, there are bumps back up on particular days and they seem to often occur TWO days after a less than ideal eating day. But as long as my weekly average is consistently decreasing a bit, I'm happy.

If weighing themselves helps them stay motivated, more power to them. I measure my waist every few days. It fluctuates too, but has the advantage of not tricking me into thinking that muscle mass means I'm gaining body fat.

So far, weighing frequently motivates me especially when it reads less than my weigh in weight. I do weigh in and track my weight once a week and measure and track once a month.:blushing: ::bigsmile:

I weigh daily because seeing the fluctuations really helps me stay grounded in regards to the changes on the scale. I know that I can be spot on with calories and macros, but way over in sodium, and I’ll have an increase from the sodium. Or I can eat over my calories, but have it not be a sodium blowout, and still go down the next day. I know that I can “gain” 10 pounds in three days of constant bad eating, but that over half of that will drop back off in the following three days. I gain about.2 to .4 pounds every day leading up to TOM and then drop it after it starts.

Most importantly, when I originally started weighing every day, it helped me break the cycle of having a cheat every week. I’d thought that I was basically maintaining and was trying to use the cheat each week to break through that plateau. What I discovered when I started weighing daily is that I would lose a little bit of weight almost every single day of the day of the week, then my cheat meal would add it all back on, and then I’d spend the next week losing that same jump on the scale all over again. So I stopped the weekly cheat and saw a more steady overall decrease from week to week.

I don’t log it here every day, I only log every other Saturday. But I do keep track of my daily weight in a spreadsheet where I also track my calories and macros. When I eat too low on carbs and too high on fat for many days in a row, my weight starts to increase. Drop the fat and increase the carbs back up, the weight starts going back down. I know that, and all of the stuff I listed above because I weigh myself daily.

Is it for everyone? No. But has it helped me? Definitely.

Once you weigh yourself every day for a few weeks you understand the fluctuations that naturally happen.
The number means less and less, the more I weigh myself.

I don't get it. I don't want to see the flucuations. They drive me crazy. Also, I would never weigh myself immediately after a bad day of eating. Why would you want to see a gain????? Your body has to have time to adjust. Maybe it's motivation for others but it seems insane to me.

What's insane to you is cool to someone else! I'm a data and science nerd. Love it. The fluctuations don't bother me. It's fun for me to look back and see the trends and learn how my body responds to food, exercise, sleep, stress, tom... everything. I'm like a giant science experiment! As far as seeing a gain, I know it's not a fat gain, knowledge is power!

I agree with many people here. Weighing each morning keeps me focused, I have a long way still to go and I want to harness all the drive and focus I can to keep me committed.

I like to because I'm always amazed that I gain three lbs from morning to night.

I cannot walk past the scale,,,, It is in control,,, and it laughs at me. One day I will resist ,,, maybe tomorrow !

I had to put the scales in the children's bathroom so I actually have to go out of my way to go in and weigh myself.
I get that other people use the daily weight for data gathering but for me it is a semi-obsessive thing so I am only weighing once a week now.

I weigh daily in order to have enough data points to truly get a good estimate of where I am. Plus, I'm currently losing very slowly @ roughly 1/2 Lb per week...I need those data points to give me a more accurate picture of where I am. Natural weight fluctuations don't bother me...I understand them and understand what they are, so they just don't bother me.