Tempted to weigh in every day

When I'm at home (on the road at the moment), I tend to weight every morning just to check in for myself. I only log it once a week, though, and I pay a lot more attention to my weekly body measurements and body fat percentage. It's fine to check the scale, but be aware that it often doesn't tell the whole story. Weight loss takes time, so don't expect immediate results. If you haven't already, I would recommend recording your key body measurements and taking candid pictures for your eyes only. You may not notice a difference as you start to lose, but you'll see it in the pictures.

I will join the club! I weight myself every morning, but log it only once a week, every Wednesday. But as adivsed previously, I don't take the changes too hard, as sometimes I can get +6 lbs only for water retention. So as long as you stick to your macros and don't panick or get upset from these small changes ... do it

I guess that's not exactly the answer you were looking for, but you can see you're not the only one

i weigh myself every day. usually before and after the bathroom :bigsmile: what can i say, i like numbers, especially when they go down. AND i only record when i lose something. I know, just cheating myself, but I like it this way.

thus said, i am becomeing aware of loss/body changes so I am slowly but surely getting the hang of "not" being obsessed by the numbers

I weigh myself every day, but I don't freak out if it shows I've gained 2 lb in one day, while eating correctly. I know that my weight will occasionally go up for a day, then back down to what it was. I find it interesting to see the normal fluctuation in weight from day to day. As long as I see a steady loss, it doesn't concern me. I actualy find that it helps to keep me on track---if the number is good, I'm encouraged to keep on going; if it's not what I expect, I'm determined to keep working at it until it drops.

Only you know how you would react. Some people do better with weekly weigh-ins, or like the structure of predefined weigh-in times. If you're sure you won't be thrown off track by checking your weight more often, then do what you want. If you're easily discouraged or reactive to weigh-in numbers, then frequent weigh-ins might not be for you.

Also, remember that weight is not the only indicator of success. There's also noting your clothes are loose, or taking measurements. Having increased stamina, not tiring so easily when exercising, or increased strength.

I weigh every day, except sometimes now I'm maintaining, I do forget. I think weighing every day can be extremely helpful because it makes you really understand your weight and what makes it fluctuate. You have to learn not to freak out when it goes up though, because it will happen.

The whole time I was losing, during any one week I'd usually have a couple of "up" days, a couple of "down" days and a couple of "stay the same" days. What's important is to look at the overall trend - is that going down over time? It was also common for me to fluctuate up and down the same couple of pounds for maybe a week and a half, two weeks, and then suddenly drop a bigger chunk of weight. If I was only weighing weekly, I'd probably have been more stressed out because I didn't know what was happening in between.

I soon learned that eating a lot of salty or sugary food makes me jump up a couple of pounds, increasing the intensity of my workouts makes me jump up a pound or two, drinking a lot of alcohol usually makes me drop a couple of pounds due to dehydration. And sometimes, it goes up or down for reasons I can't quite figure out, but I expect it so I don't freak out about it!

Some people prefer the weekly weigh in, or monthly. Some people forget the scale altogether and just go by measurements, how their clothes fit and photos. Experiment a bit and find what works for you.

I have to stop myself from weighing myself! I used to literally do it 5-6 times a day. Then I stopped for about a year and went from underweight to almost overweight (this is now going back like 6 years). Now I try not to if I think I may have a gain for some reason as I know from experience that it demotivates me hugely to see the scale go up one week. I think it's what works for you to be honest hun, if weighing every few days works then do that, but only record once a week as the weeklies will show more of a trend whereas daily will change depending on how much exercise you did, salt intake, how much you ate yesterday that's still processing... etc etc.

Bottom line from what everyone's saying- do what's right for you!

I weight myself every day and track in on physicsdiet.com. It will even out the ups and downs and keep you from going crazy.

There is nothing wrong with weighing yourself everyday, so long as you understand that it will go up and down and you don't panic at every half pound gain!

I usually weigh in every morning and I can usually tell what its going to say based on the previous day. Lots of strength training or salty food and yep, its gone up a pound or two. I would just log it once a week though. Or even once a month. I haven't logged my weight for ages.

You can weigh in every day as long as you don't pay attention to all the little fluctuations. I weight most days plot it in excel then look at the general trend instead of the day to day.

You'll get lots of responses everywhere on the spectrum of "never- throw away your scales" to "I weigh myself several times a day". It's whatever works for you.

I weight myself 2x a day, morning and night. It keeps me mindful and reminds me that there will always be fluctuations. For some people that would get obsessive, but I find that if I forget at night and crawl into bed, I don't get back out of bed to weigh myself. Same thing in the morning - if I forget it's no big deal.

I also take my measurements on the first of the month.