When do you weigh yourself??

When I was in full "weight loss" mode, I would weigh myself once a week, the same time of the day, same day of the week, every week, wearing basically the same thing (gym clothes) at the gym, with my trainer. Sort of provided that other eye and documented I was doing what I said I was doing.

That was the "official" weigh-in. But I weighed my self every day. Just don't sweat the day-to-day deviations. Your body can easily fluctuate a few pounds of water so don't sweat any perceived daily weight gain/loss. Intra-day my weight can move 5 pounds or more. I know I'll weigh a few pounds less first thing in the morning than when I go to bed.

But for a real read on how you are doing, once a week is more than enough. And just look at the trend. Sometimes it will be more, sometimes less, but average it out and if the trend is going in the right direction, you are good.

I weigh daily now; for a long time I was only weighing once a week but I recently decided I want to weigh daily and track trends so now I weigh every morning first thing. I only record my weight here on MFP on Fridays though, the rest of the time I use app on my phone.

I weigh daily, first thing in the morning, before I drink or eat, and after I use the restroom.

That way, what I'm eating throughout the day doesn't really impact my measurement.

I "officially" weigh in first thing on a Monday morning, as soon as I get up (after I've had a pee, but that may be TMI). However, I tend to actually weigh myself daily when I get up, and sometimes later in the day too. I'm fascinated by how my weight can fluctuate over the course of a day or two, and relating that to what foods I've eaten. The trick is though to not get hung up on the numbers, and instead concentrate on the overall trend.

I think everyone (or at least most people) go through that too where they weigh themselves several times a week and maybe even several times a day. I know I did that when I first started! But you don't want it to become an obsession... So I only weigh myself on Sunday mornings right when I wake up. Like you said, it can be very discouraging especially if the scale is going up, up, and up! Your weight fluctuates throughout the day and you'll end up with five different numbers if you weigh yourself several times throughout the day. So stick with one day a week in the mornings and you'll have a more accurate number!

The 1st and 15th of every month. It's the only way I don't become obsessive.

I record weight every morning, and sometimes weigh at night to look. Pretty interesting.

Sunday morning I was 2 pounds heavier than Monday morning. Fewer data points may lead to confusion, or increase satisfaction.

*For me, it's whenever I go to the Dr's office. I go by tape measurements and how my clothes fit. That scale drives me nutso and to see it jumping around due to natural body fluctuations would.....ugh, just ugh. I started at size 16 in January, and now some of my 10's are getting loose....that's all I need to know! :happy:

Right now I am obsessed with my new digital scale so I weigh every morning before breakfast. It fluctuates everyday, depending on how I did the day before! After I read a few of the posts, I will only go by Friday mornings from now on to record losses on MFP:) At this point I have to know every day what that scale registers but I know I will get over that as I go along (I Hope)!