Anyone Weigh in Every Day?

I AGREE!!!! With everything she said! Yep, weighing in daily shows you rather its a consistent loss or gain in order to change something up and make the numbers keep going down.. Its better than weighing in on a specific day and then seeing weight gain on that day will make you feel bad >

I weigh everyday because otherwise you could end up being a lot more depressed in my opinion if your weigh in day happens to be on some horrible upwards fluctuation day. I don't stress if it bounces up as long as it doesn't stay up, and since I weigh everyday I can see whether it goes down the next day or not, and if it's still up several days later then I know that maybe I need to look at what I'm doing and make a change.

Yes, but not for weight!

I take a dry weight (after waking up and using the bathroom, but before drinking anything) every morning to help manage my water balance. I know I usually vary about 3.5lbs over the course of the day, and that my scale, as precise as the electronic ones seem, is actually randomly off by about a half pound. So my "weight" can change by almost five pounds without it actually representing any real change.

The way I *use* the weight is pretty simple though. It's right there in the bathroom, so I just take my weight whenever later in the day, and if it's *lower* than the morning dry weight, I can be pretty certain that I should drink another pint of water.

Why? Because I wake up a pint or two short, and since a pint's a pound, I know that my "hydrated" weight is a couple of pounds over my morning dry weight, so even if I burn a half pound during the day, and the scale is off a half pound the other way on the next reading, any time I reach the morning dry weight is pretty likely to mean "need water".

For my weight change measurements, I use a trend line through the last weeks dry weights. That might just be a mathematician thing though.

I weigh everyday, by doing so it helps me to diet on a "daily" basis. That means that I refocus on what I need to do "that day", not tomorrow or when I feel like doing it. If I stick to my diet on a daily basis I am being consistent which means no yo yo dieting. A few times when the scale showed a gain instead of a loss it was usually due to water weight so I focus on eating low sodium and low carb to get rid of that water weight. I am starting to work out more so I know that I will gain muscle which weights more than fat so I will have to adjust my weight loss expectations for that as well.

I do too, just to make sure I am on track and not gaining again. I used to ignore the scale and the pounds crept up.

I am currently. It's been really interesting to watch my weight go up and down like a yo-yo.

Since I have a background in quality control and Six Sigma, I weigh every day and plot it using control chart techniques. Periodically, I re-adjust the chart by eliminating the first several days that are out-of-control on the high end to bring everything back in control. This forces me to lose weight and "bring the process back out of control".

Nerdy? Yes, but it works for me.

Hi All! So when I first started I weighed once a week, but then someone had made a good point that daily make the graph look cool. LOL! So, I started daily. At first I would get down on myself because depending on my water retention I would "gain"3 lbs in one day or lose 5. I've decided to go back to once a week. It would seem more accurate that way.

I used to weigh every day but not anymore. I would get frustrated and would complain to my husband about it. He took my scale away for a month and told me there were more important things than that number on the scale and you know what? He was right. I weigh for sure once a week...I may climb on another day midweek if I'm feelin " fluffy " or something. There are so many factors that can affect your numbers daily -water and just building muscle - and getting caught up in a number when you see changes in your body whether the scale moves or not can get a little obsessive IMO. Of course I'm just a minion LOL. I just track it for sure once a week and roll with the punches the rest of the time.

I weigh every morning before I drink any water.
I get up and go to the bathroom and weigh.

I do not get stressed about it.
I just want to know if I gained 1/2 pound, then I look at my Diary to see what occurred.
Like maybe taking in too much sodium

I try to do it every other day at the same time in the morning before I eat or shower. I don't weigh myself on mornings after the day I have lifted weights because I always weigh more. Sometimes I do just out of habit though.
Remember, if the numbers go down it's great positive reinforcement, if they go up it just means you gotta try harder! Don't give up either way.