How Often do you Weight Yourself?

Once a week, either on Monday but usually I forget so Tuesday morning first thing.

Once a week..it's too stressful for me if I don't see a loss!! Lol

I"m going into public health and worked on a weight-loss study that showed significance if a person weight themselves almost everyday compared to once or twice a week. The study showed that people took note of what they did right or wrong the previous day based on how their weight fluctuated and made corrections the next day. While this was relatively small (about 90 participants), it is significant. But I know weighing yourself everyday isn't for everybody (it is for me!) You just have to focus on the positives and not get bogged down by day to day fluctuations.

I use the mirror and measurements for real progress.

Once a week. I totally agree that you shouldn't judge progress on the number you see on the scale. That can be affected by so much. Count how you feel, how your clothes feel. The numbers on a tape measure over-ride the numbers you see on a scale, for me.

Here's what I've heard, and it makes a lot of sense to me: While you're losing weight, weigh once a week (same day of week and time of day). This allows you seven days of effort that will give you more of a payoff when you do weigh in. And, by the way, one pound a week is good weight loss.

When you are maintaining your weight (most agree this is harder than losing weight), you should weigh every day (same time of day). This builds the habit of weighing regularly and gives you immediate feedback if you're slipping into weight gain. I've struggled with my weight forever, and for the most part I would avoid weighing at all -- only to find out I'd gained back 30-40 lbs. Had I been weighing every day, I might not have had to much to lose. If you're a very petite small person with very little fat, you will usually feel weight gain in your clothing and may not need to get on the scale every day to know that you need to cut back. For a large person like myself in past years, my clothes were usually quite roomy and elasticized, so weight gain would not necessarily be detected so soon in my clothes.

once a week- Monday morning

Weight can fluctuate wildly day to day, so I try and normalize the changes by weighing about every two weeks. It seems to be a good period in which you can really see encouraging progress, and yet not so long that your'e not still keeping relatively current and measuring accurately.

I weigh myself every chance I get, but at least every night and every morning...and anytime there's a scale around. I don't use the scale as a way to track progress, I'm just interested in the numbers and how they fluctuate. I do use the scale for long term trending, but for actual progress I use how my clothes fit and mirror and occasionally do some measurements.

I know when I started out last year I set up a spreadsheet and tracked night and morning weight for about a month and a half, and it really let me know how much the scale jumps up and down...sometimes for stupid reasons. I have seen it jump up a pound after brushing my teeth.

ETA: I only log a new low.

I used to weigh myself everytime I went to the bathroom. Now I don't care much about the weight anymore but the way I actually look. I might lose fat, but then I might gain muscle from working out so the number doesn't tell me anything... I'd say I weight myself once a week?

I weigh myself whenever I happen upon a scale. It could be 3 times a week or once in 3 months. I DO NOT keep a scale in my home. It would be torture. I however, do keep lots of mirrors and look at myself a billion times a day to make sure my sexy hasn't runaway.

2-3x/week

if ive been good every 2 days, if ive been bad i might wait as long as four days.

Every day, whenever I am naked or near naked in the bathroomas as there resides the scale.
I find it fascanates me how much it can fluctuate, once I git reallydesponded though as my weight was going up, but I was actually working out harder and watching what I ate.
I figured out tough that it had been the diuretics (on prescription for an ailment) I was on for 10 days, which first made me loose weight fast and then when I stopped I gained a lot back.

I weigh my self daily.
It's become an addiction.

Apparently it's also a form of bulimia.

What?
I weigh myself daily just to keep myself accountable.

Ok hear me out people. Before you read any further, know that I only recommend this method for people who take the number on the scale with a grain of salt, realizing how much body weight can fluctuate.

That being said, I weigh every day. Why do I do this? To get more data. To put it simply, if you weigh once a week, you don't see fluctuation within a week and may be more put off at the fact that you didn't lose or gained one week. Perhaps you weigh in at a low point of a fluctuation, but the next week, you end up weighing in at a high point for whatever reason. It is much easier to see a general trend and account for natural fluctuation when you weigh more frequently. The more points you have on your graph, the easier it is to tell your weight loss trend apart from daily/weekly/monthy fluctuations.

I hope that made some bit of sense. I am very bad at explaining things.