How Often Should you weigh yourself?

It depends. I weigh almost every day but I also don't let scale fluctuations bother me. You weight can fluctuate 5-10 lbs every day. If it's going to freak you out to see your weight changing that much then you should probably stick with once a week.

I weigh myself a couple of times a week... usually when I get home from work just before dinner... Dinner is my big meal so I figure I am at my furthest point from it at that point... its worked for me..

I weigh myself every morning. I am trying to maintain a healthy weight, so I just want to make sure that there are no changes (up or down) or surprises When I was losing weight, I only hit the scale once or twice per week, otherwise I would get frustrated and not see progress quickly enough.

I weigh myself about 3 times a week. In the morning. I don't get too concerned with small fluctuations.

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If you are able to remain focused and not get distracted (unmotivated or overly confident) by the fluctuations you can weigh yourself as often as you like. The average person would do once per week. That is because it is in line with what is typically agreed on as the acceptable weight loss goal of a pound per week. But we are all different colors of the rainbow, so each their own.

I weigh every day, every other day, but I only log weekly.

I weigh daily, first thing in the morning. There have been days when my morning weight was nearly 3 lbs. more than the previous day. But the overall trend is downward. John Walker explains how to use weighted moving averages to filter out the noise in his free online book "The Hacker's Diet" (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/) - not, however, for people who don't like math (though Walker's website lets you set up a free account to track your weight online and do the math for you). If you use such an average, you can see how even a daily increase fits into an overall downward trend.

I used to weigh myself weekly, which sometimes resulted in one week's number being higher than the previous week--which was really discouraging. With daily measurements, I can see the trend more clearly.

But my approach doesn't work for everyone. As long as you're honest about what you eat, measure exercise accurately, and have configured MFP correctly, you shouldn't need to weigh yourself except occasionally, to check your progress.

whenever you damned well please. I do it once a week. Sunday morning.

I weigh in once a week. Every Friday morning at around the same time wearing the same thing to get the most accurate number possible.

A friend once told me she weighs herself every other day? Is that too much? How many times should you weigh yourself?

Help please!

That completely depends on you. If you can't handle and/or don't understand natural body weight fluctuations and have panic attacks because you're up a pound from yesterday because you haven't dropped your morning deuce yet, then frequently weighing yourself is probably a bad idea.

I weigh daily because I understand natural body weight fluctuations and the non-linear nature of weight loss and non-static nature of maintenance...so those fluctuations don't bother me and I like have numerous statistical data points to work with.

I also put a lot of stock in measurements. In RE to scale weight, you have to understand that number represents a whole lot of different things, not just fat...the scale only tells about 1/4 of the story.