How often should I weigh in?

Weekly is more than enough otherwise as you have discovered you will drive yourself crazy doing it more often.

Some people even do it monthly as weight can fluctuate by the week..

I guess there is no right answer..

I posted this exact thing earlier today:
I'm mostly a weekly weigher.....when i wakeup, after the bathroom, before the shower. I weigh myself until I get the exact same reading(digital) 3 times in a row. or if i weigh 4 times and 3 of them are the same...i will take that one. Sometimes I weigh myself throughout the week but just out of curiosity and I don't record it. Good luck getting off of the daily weigh-in!!


Note: not sure why I decided on 3...3rd times a charm?

Weekly is more than enough otherwise as you have discovered you will drive yourself crazy doing it more often.

Some people even do it monthly as weight can fluctuate by the week..

I guess there is no right answer..

Straight answer there man; whatever satisfies your needs!

Water retention is so stinking unpredictable that I cant do weekly.. it makes me crazy!! I will do monthly or even sometimes every couple of months...But thats just me... :happy:

I keep my scale in the middle of the floor in the bathroom. It's a bit of a reminder that this is a project I am working on. That said, I'm not someone who beats myself up over the number. It's just a number to me that measures where I'm at. I find weighing myself every day or a few times a day helps me understand how food/exercise affects my body (bloating, water retention, etc). I let go of the weekly weigh in because I found it too easy to leave the scale in the cupboard. Weighing in every day is now part of my routine.

every day.

knowledge is power.

And the geek in me likes lots of data points (they make for pretty graphs)

every day.

knowledge is power.

And the geek in me likes lots of data points (they make for pretty graphs)

LOL. Love it.

I am different than most people, I weigh myself before every meal. And while this may seem crazy to some people, hear me out. First, doing this gets you really in touch with your bodies rhythms and more importantly it makes a direct psychological link between what the scale says and what you are putting in your mouth. Believe me when I tell you, this exercise makes it easy to skip the little cheats or indulgences you might otherwise allow yourself. In my opinion this is way more effective than putting a "fat" picture on the fridge.

I've also found that this method actually helps when you plateau. If you are only weighing in once a week it might appear that nothing is happening and it might come as a surprise particularly if you are expecting to have lost weight. This is a big negative jolt to your psyche and one you'll have to live with for another week to see if you have better results. By monitoring the situation on a micro level you never expect to see big jumps and quite often you see nothing or very little at all. You'll have unexpected gains and loses throughout the week but if you're doing everything right, the trend will be downward. When the plateau occurs you'll still see things moving and changing but there will be no downward trend. Noticing a trend change is much easier to deal with than a once a week glimpse at where you are at that might leave you aggravated for another week.

Oh and one other thing, while I do monitor my weight several times a day, I have an official weigh in once a week that I actually record the weight, or at least this is how I've done it in the past. I am still very new to MyFitnessPal and I'm tracking and recording everything else on a daily basis, I will probably start trying to keep an actual daily record of my weight just for data purposes. This is more of a data mining exercise than a practical necessity. I would probably only recommend recording the weekly weigh in. But I'll let you know if I learn anything from my new tracking practices.

I used to do it daily but now that I use my Wii fit as a scale it takes too long to weigh in so I do my official recording Friday mornings.I may check at other times but don't record them. I've only done it on Friday the last few weeks.

Every single day, sometimes twice or more a day, early morning, before gym, after gym, before dinner... you name it.
It helps me to stay on course and understand better the weight fluctuations, mental note, "you cannot have a late and heavy dinner you fool"

Recently I'm kinda stuck, I'm already at a normal bmi value, I've maintained my calorie deficit but increased my weight training and I see more body definition but now the scale doesnt move

Once in a while. Some times once a week, some times once a month. I put way more emphasis on how my clothes fit and what I see in the mirror, it's much less stressful for me and I don't have to work myself up into a fenzie if the weight varies too much on a daily basis, type: 'OH MY GOD I just gained 300grams compared to yesterday! *freak out*'. No thanks. I deadlift 10kgs more this week than last week, that's good enough for me. :bigsmile: