Do you weigh yourself every day or once a week?

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  • mikedean441
    mikedean441 Posts: 9
    every day and it needs to stop
  • Coffeeholic8
    Coffeeholic8 Posts: 272 Member
    Once a month.
  • jessilyn76
    jessilyn76 Posts: 532 Member
    Once a week.......sometimes once every two. Our success can't be judged on one day or week's, weight loss.
  • Pasukaru2
    Pasukaru2 Posts: 39 Member
    About once a week. Since body wieght flucuates a lot in one week, I feel more discouraged when I weight myself more than that.
  • mjcjones
    mjcjones Posts: 7 Member
    I weigh twice a day: once in the morning and once in the evening. That way I have an idea of where I stand. However, my 'official' weigh in day is Wednesday. That is the weight that I record.
  • heald_uk
    heald_uk Posts: 7 Member
    Every day as I have an app on my iphone that I log it in. However, my 'official' day is Wednesday evening when I get weighed at my Rosemary Conley Class. This can be a couple of lbs out from my own scales but I don't stress too much about that - I'm just glad to see the scales going down a tiny bit at a time!
  • Kittenopolis
    Kittenopolis Posts: 26 Member
    I weigh myself like... every time I see a scale. I'm obsessed. If I don't go down every day or if I fluctuate more than just a lb or so, I get really irritated.

    I know, I know... I should NOT be so hung up on the scale... but I am.

    Currently I'm staying with relatives & access to a scale isn't as readily available (I'm used to weighing EVERY time I go to the bathroom at home & the only scale in the house now is in my aunt/uncle's private bathroom so I try not to intrude in their space).

    However, I work at a doctor's office so I weigh myself on the "legit" scale almost every day, sometimes a couple of times a day (as often as I can get away with without coworkers questioning me). This also allows me to see the variations between my home scale & the office scale, so I know if I'm really staying on track or not.

    The good news is, since I haven't had much access to an in-home scale, I'm paying more attention to the physician's scale (which is always a lb or two higher than the in-home which I felt to be more accurate) so when it says I've lost more, I get really excited which is fun. It also doesn't allow for the tenths of a lb to stress me out bc you just adjust the scale to as close to a half lb as possible & I think that has helped me obsess a little less as well. Before, sometimes seeing even 6/10ths of an increase would stress me out. That doesn't happen now since I'm FORCED to limit my weigh ins.

    Sorry, this was totally a TL; DR post for absolutely no reason. Hah!
  • ColleenRep
    ColleenRep Posts: 12 Member
    I was weighing myself everyday but it was stressing me out so this week I am trying to Just weight my self on Friday.
  • JMfan
    JMfan Posts: 20 Member
    i don't know how weighing everyday keeps anyone on track. i heard someone else say they do that too. it's not an accurate reading as far as goal setting so "how" exactly does it keep anyone on track? I weigh once a week, if that. I go by the way clothes fit and how I look and feel. It keep frustration low. Besides, if you build any muscle, you will GAIN weight sometimes. I see people feeling all low because they are gaining weight and losing fat and don't even realize it's a good thing.
  • girlfromOklahoma
    girlfromOklahoma Posts: 129 Member
    Everyday for me. It helps me to stay on track. :)
  • iBreatheMusic88
    iBreatheMusic88 Posts: 115
    Once a month... THE SCALE IS THE DEVIL!
  • nygrl4evr
    nygrl4evr Posts: 196 Member
    Once a week and always on Friday mornings before I have had anything to eat or drink. Anymore then that and I think the fluctuations would stress me out but that is just me.
  • size08
    size08 Posts: 101 Member
    I understand you should weigh your self once a week. weighing every day will show your fluctations. and yeh, you can accept that. I felt blotted one particular sunday morn, and it showed on the scales, I weighed again on monday, feeling great! and yeh, that showed on the scales.

    Once a week weigh in girl I am!
  • ItsVJ
    ItsVJ Posts: 107 Member
    I weigh myself once a month. I was so obsessed with the scale that I was experiencing disappointment and frustration because I wasn't losing as fast as I thought I should. I knew I needed to adjust my motivation to getting healthy and fit instead of losing weight. So, I've committed to weighing once a month, and that did the trick. Now, I really look forward to my weigh-in, which is almost ALWAYS a loss!
  • tinak33
    tinak33 Posts: 9,883 Member
    I weigh myself everyday, because I like to have an idea how I'm doing. I know that daily fluctuations are normal, so it doesn't stress me out. I "officially" weigh in on Fridays.


    ^^^same.
    Except my "offical" days are Wednesdays. And I log the weight whether it's a gain or a loss.
  • isa412
    isa412 Posts: 1
    I weigh myself once a week before having breakfast.
  • evolution143
    evolution143 Posts: 14 Member
    I weigh almost every morning (if I think about it) and record losses. I only record a gain if it's still showing up after 2-3 days but thus far that hasn't happened. I'll record a gain thinking that's that -- then the next day I weigh and I've lost that gain and then some. Weighing most days doesn't bother me. I know my weight will fluctuate daily and even hourly but as long as the scale keeps going down I'm happy.
  • RonandDi
    RonandDi Posts: 120 Member
    Everyday. And if I see a loss for two days in a row, I log it. This has always worked for me.

    This is me also....
  • RunWinterGarden
    RunWinterGarden Posts: 428 Member
    I weigh daily and plug in to a spreadsheet and look at the 15 day moving average, that's the weight I use when I factor in meeting my goals.
  • WonTaunTaun
    WonTaunTaun Posts: 87 Member
    I tell myself every week that I'm not going to check the scale until Friday. However, I have a hard time doing that because I just really like to see the progress I've made. I may have only lost 7lbs so far, but I've worked hard for it and like to see the results. So I cave pretty much every day and step on the scale. Lol. I don't officially log the results until I'm about 2lbs down and I see no fluctuation between numbers for a couple days. Then I know it's not water weight and actual weight loss.
  • _DaniD_
    _DaniD_ Posts: 2,186 Member
    About once every 6 months
  • newwoman99
    newwoman99 Posts: 2 Member
    I weigh daily in the morning. Keeps me on track. Although my official weigh in is every Monday morning. That way I know I can't mess myself up on the weekends. Weighing daily doesn't stress me out. It just keeps me motivated. I have lost 50 lbs in the past year. 30 since Jan 1st! Alot more work to do but I know I can do it.
  • devil_in_a_blue_dress
    devil_in_a_blue_dress Posts: 5,214 Member
    Once a month
  • dwh77tx
    dwh77tx Posts: 513 Member
    I used to weigh every day but stopped because it was determining how I felt about myself that day. Now, I weigh on on Sat mornings and I"m paying attention to how my clothes fit.
  • PhearlessPhreaks
    PhearlessPhreaks Posts: 890 Member
    I weigh myself every day because I'm neurotic and I like to keep the "fluctuation" in check. Being pregnant, sometimes the scale goes up, sometimes it goes down, so I haven't been tracking too closely, but I find that weighing myself every morning helps me to be aware of how food affects me, particularly how it relates to water retention.
  • trhops
    trhops Posts: 295 Member
    I weigh everyday, because it helps me to stay accountable. I do realize there are fluctuations so I log once I hit a pound or more gone.
  • araromi2
    araromi2 Posts: 111 Member
    I put my scale in the trunk because I was getting on 2 times a day...I started driving myself crazy...so I will only weigh myself once a month or if I happen to go to the doctor
  • unapologetically_crystal
    unapologetically_crystal Posts: 278 Member
    i weigh myself every day simply because i need a routine where i weighed myself once in a while to keep it logged and tracked but when i tried to do it once a week i would forget to do it or did it at different times of day so i had major fluctuations in my tracking. so then i decided i should do it every morning before i get dressed. and then it actually became routine. i dont think everyone should do this. it can mess with your head. scales are bad like that. you have to remember to not let it get to you. if u see it becoming a problem then please just step away from the scale for a little while.
  • crowlg94
    crowlg94 Posts: 41
    Every Saturday morning. Before I weighted in once a month but that was not enough, and daily only discourage me because I did not seem to meet my desires. Now once a week on Saturday mornings and sometimes on Wednesday mornings to keep myself in check. If the Wednesday is less than a pound I make adjustments for the rest of the week.
  • SinomenJen
    SinomenJen Posts: 262 Member
    Every morning, if I didnt i would be bonkers by now, I have learned that sodium will make me gain upwards of 5lbs, that the TOM will make me ballooon, that my weight is like a rollercoaster, that goes up and down and up and down, that being said, when I look it the over-all picture in a months time it always goes down. If I weighed once a week, and had an "up" day it would of discourgaed me before I learned how my body works, and that my weight loss is one huge amusement ride :happy:

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