How often do YOU weigh in?

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  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I weigh myself every morning when I wake up (unless I'm traveling or wake up very late).

    Once I've maintained any amount of weight loss for more than 4 or 5 days, I log it into MFP. This means I usually update my weight on MFP a couple of times per month, and on any given morning I probably weigh 1-2 lb less than I've logged here but I'd always rather feel ahead of the game.

    So silly...but for some reason I feel like saying I'm at 232 on MFP when I MAY still be 235 would somehow jinx everything LOL
  • Mario_Az
    Mario_Az Posts: 1,331 Member
    once a week every sunday morning when i wake up
  • doc2zombie
    doc2zombie Posts: 16
    My dietician at the VA clinic recommended this site to me so I could get a better hold on exactly what I eat, and also give me some motivation to keep on track by weighing myself.

    Her suggestion was to weigh only once a week upon rising in the morning and before breakfast. I have chosen Saturday morning.

    :glasses:
  • lea123e
    lea123e Posts: 16 Member
    I was going to ask the same question!

    I'm a compulsive weigher! I'm thinking of ditching my scales and just use the ones at the gym every fortnight. My theory being that if I know I have a calorie deficit every day I should be losi g weight. The scales are only one way to measure success, I've often been disappointed with the scale reading and ended up comfort eating!! So for me, it's best to weigh less regularly I think :)
  • gogojodee
    gogojodee Posts: 1,243 Member
    Every freakin' day!
  • iwantodance
    iwantodance Posts: 28 Member
    I told myself I was going to wait 2 weeks from my starting point but, at 5 days today and feeling so good, I couldn't resist. I've lost 2 lbs! I'm so motivated and excited about that!
  • yamsteroo
    yamsteroo Posts: 480 Member
    I weigh myself every morning when I wake up (unless I'm traveling or wake up very late).

    Once I've maintained any amount of weight loss for more than 4 or 5 days, I log it into MFP. This means I usually update my weight on MFP a couple of times per month, and on any given morning I probably weigh 1-2 lb less than I've logged here but I'd always rather feel ahead of the game.

    So silly...but for some reason I feel like saying I'm at 232 on MFP when I MAY still be 235 would somehow jinx everything LOL

    ^^This! I hop on every morning for a look-see but I don't get worry if its up a lb or so. When it drops below my last logged weight though, I have a three day rule and if it's still off on day three that's logged.

    It works for me but I think the important thing is not to obsess about it - if you find yourself getting upset because you've gone up a few lb without rationalising it could just be water then maybe leave the scales in a cupboard for a while.
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    I weigh myself daily but I take the long-term picture into account. I got into the habit of daily weighing in 2001-2002. During that weight loss I took a weekly average...

    I do the same, though I've only been recording my Monday morning weights on MFP.

    I recommend daily weigh-ins, with a huge caveat: you need to do some math to find the difference between your actual weight loss and the daily fluctuations, which are much larger. My weight fluctuates as much as 4 lbs. over the course of a day, while my goal of losing a pound a week means that I'll lose only a little more than 2 oz. every day, just 3% of my daily fluctuation.

    Your weight fluctuates depending on water, salt, and fiber intake, and other factors having nothing to do with calories. Using an exponentially weighted average can help you filter out the noise and focus on the trend, as John Walker explains in "The Hacker's Diet" (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/). The chapter on "The Rubber Bag" explains, briefly, the source of these fluctuations. The chapter on "Signal and Noise" explains how some simple math can filter them out. Walker explains how to do the math, but you can also set up a free account on his server to do it for you, or use a service like Beeminder.

    If you want to see how this works in practice, look at my Beeminder weight loss graph: https://www.beeminder.com/brianogilvie/goals/weigh

    The dots are my actual morning weight for the last 5+ months (except when I was traveling and didn't have a scale). The skinny purple line is my exponentially smoothed weighted average. Notice how there are periods such as late March/early April where my daily weigh-ins didn't seem to go down (the rose-colored dots are Beeminder's "optimistic" view of progress, and it's flat then. However, the weights were still all below the skinny purple line, so I could be pretty sure that I was still losing weight.

    Meanwhile, if I just looked at my Monday morning weights, I would have had three plateaus of 3-5 weeks each, just due to the vagaries of water and solid retention.
  • jpolinisse
    jpolinisse Posts: 149 Member
    Every Sat. or Sun. I skip the weekly weigh during TOM.
  • ZozoMonster
    ZozoMonster Posts: 270 Member
    I weigh weekly. And every fortnight I record body fat, water and BMI too.
  • amandzor
    amandzor Posts: 386 Member
    Every once in a while in the morning, right after my shower. But i give myself a 2lb coushin either way.
  • Pulka_Dot
    Pulka_Dot Posts: 87 Member
    Never because it is just a number. I go by how I feel and how my clothes fit.
  • Zina1963
    Zina1963 Posts: 9 Member
    The scale is my emotional enemy. If I don't think I'm losing fast enough, then I just want to give up. Before my dietician told me to stop weighing at home I was weighing once a week, first thing in the morning on Friday. Now, my plan is to weigh once month at the dr. office, and just do my thing and forget the scale till the next visit.
  • theoriginaljayne
    theoriginaljayne Posts: 559 Member
    Daily, but after I plot that weight on a graph, I don't really worry about it. Every few days/weeks I pull out the graph and make sure that I haven't slowly been gaining over time.
  • TheMMan
    TheMMan Posts: 124 Member
    I weigh in daily and then plot my weight using a control chart. I have a quality control background and am trained in Six Sigma. The theory behind that is to accept that every system has inherent variation, and measure the variation of the system. In this case the system is the body and scale. My recent measurements have been "out of control" which means that my weight loss is statistically significant.

    I know, I'm a geek but it works for me.
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    Yearly, my trouser belt serves as daily feedback.

    I can't link it to anything via wifi but it seems to do the job.
  • anewlily
    anewlily Posts: 5
    Daily for me.. I just can't help myself!! >_< my scale is in the bathroom, so every time I go in there it haunts me. Perhaps I should move it somewhere where I'll notice it less.
  • tmm_0127
    tmm_0127 Posts: 545 Member
    Only when I feel like it. Most days I know I'm going to disappoint myself, so I just don't even bother.
  • HeyGoRun
    HeyGoRun Posts: 550 Member
    on sunday mornings to see weekly progress or non progress, but no weigh in during my time of the month :wink:
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
    Yearly, my trouser belt serves as daily feedback.

    I can't link it to anything via wifi but it seems to do the job.

    When my shorts button too tightly, or I go to the doctors. I weigh 101.2 now, a few more and I can't wear my shorts comfortably so I eat a few less treats. :)

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