How often to do you weigh yourself?

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  • MsKeelah919
    MsKeelah919 Posts: 332 Member
    Daily. (multiple times) I record it on Mondays!
  • Wanderson1311
    Wanderson1311 Posts: 17 Member
    I weigh myself everyday just because it keeps me on track... But I record only about once a week.
  • LavenderBouquet
    LavenderBouquet Posts: 736 Member
    Once a week, every Monday morning :)
  • tomg33
    tomg33 Posts: 305 Member
    Most days, after waking, then I average it out over the week. This helps to eliminate some of the jitter that occurs due to weight fluctuations. Actually even on a weekly time scale funny stuff happens, such as losing no weight one week then twice as much the next week.

    It's really just for my amusement and motivation. Since I track everything I eat and I know that I am in a caloric deficit, I know that I am consistently losing weight over time and I don't need to worry at all about what the scale says.
  • funsteps
    funsteps Posts: 74 Member
    Pretty much every morning. I write it down. I weigh at night sometimes as well, just out of sheer curiosity, but I don't track that. I'm torn about whether to cut back on it or not... I'm still in the early stages with a lot of weight to lose so most days I do see a loss and it's very motivating! But other days I see a gain, and as much as I know it's probably water retention and not actual weight gain, it bums me out to see the number go up after a few days of it going down :(
  • SlimDown4Good
    SlimDown4Good Posts: 26
    I weigh myself every morning at 6:30 - keeps me accountable and on track.
  • CariS001
    CariS001 Posts: 169 Member
    I am far too much a slave to the scale. I usually step on every few days. It records automatically, so that helps restrict me from doing it more. I would love to get to the point where I weigh in every 2 weeks or every month.
  • spirytwynd
    spirytwynd Posts: 141 Member
    I tend to weigh daily in the morning after I get up and use the latrine. I sometimes weigh in the evening after my workout, just out of curiosity. I am generally not pleased to see the number bounce up, but it keeps me mindful of what I am doing and it hasn't become discouraging yet. I actually lost a noticeable amount of weight before I got on this program. This is helping me follow through to reach my goal. I am close to my intermediate goal. The final goal is another ten pounds after that. I haven't done the other measurements, though I probably should have been. I have noticed the jeans are getting loose around the waist. And I think it might be significant that the spandex shorts are starting to look baggy and loose as well. Whether you weigh, measure or track your progress some other way, keep it up! What you are doing is making a difference in your life - even when you hit a plateau for a bit.
  • happyandhealthy65
    happyandhealthy65 Posts: 11
    I've only been on here 10 days and have pretty much stayed on track with food and exercise, but I'm too scared to weigh myself. I know if I don't see a downward change then I'll get discouraged. So I think I will only weigh myself once a fortnight and take other measurements as well.

    If I'm sticking to my food and exercise plan then surely I'm heading in the right direction.
  • Leadfoot_Lewis
    Leadfoot_Lewis Posts: 1,623 Member
    I'm not looking to lose weight so I weigh myself out of curiosity maybe once a month. How clothing fits is the best judge of weight loss IMO.
  • karrielynn80
    karrielynn80 Posts: 395 Member
    every wednesday right after i get up & go to the bathroom :)
  • LadyMustard
    LadyMustard Posts: 104 Member
    I try to weigh in on the wii fit every morning after waking up and after the toilet. If I miss a day, I don't really care since I officially record on Thursday mornings.

    Fluctuations don't bother me so much, since the WiiFit keeps a little chart with all the dots of the weigh ins. If I go up a pound or two, I just zoom out the chart by a week, or a month or a year and you can see the overall picture. All those little dots are forming a cluster of data points that is headed in the general "down" direction. You can look at it like a scatter chart and imagine a trend line along the center of the sample data points and get a better general idea of the actual weight loss. If there's anything that I've learned from being a bio major, generally the more samples that you have, the better chance that you can avoid skewed data due to outliers from random super heavy or super light days.

    OMG My nerd is showing, sorry... I'll stop now lol.

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