Why can't I resist hopping on the scales EVERY morning?

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  • losing_it_2013
    losing_it_2013 Posts: 128 Member
    I weigh most days too. The daily changes don't upset me but it makes me feel in control knowing I am going to check my weight everyday. Whatever the scale says on Thursday morning is the weight I enter into MFP.


    ^This for me too :)
  • ImRemko
    ImRemko Posts: 34 Member
    I weigh myself every day, but I never compare my weight with the day before. I always compare my weight with the data from the same day of the previous week. Every day of the week is my 'once a week' measurement like that ;)
  • JacquiKerzman
    JacquiKerzman Posts: 25
    I see my clients do this and I try real hard to teach them different because water weight can cause such changes on the scale and make you feel bad or can make you feel a false confidence. The scale number depends a lot on your carb intake as well, for every gram of carbohydrate you eat your body needs 3-4gms of water to process it, that will make the scale fluctuate. YOu could eat the same amount of calories but more carbohydrates and wonder what happened??

    I tell my clients (and myself) if you and I do our best every single day and we are not cheating the plan we have for ourselves, (sometimes by pushing nibbles here and there to see what I can eat and get away with on the scale, as if the scale with give me some sort of affirmation :-O) we should feel ok and not be drawn to the scale. Sometimes it is just breaking a habit. have your husband/roomate hide the batteries and./or the scale.
  • SouthernCountryGirl
    SouthernCountryGirl Posts: 195 Member
    I weigh every day also. I only count what's on the scale come Tuesday morning though. As long as you know you're body is going to fluctuate from day to day according to whatever you're eating and drinking, and you're ok with that, then it's not a problem. It helps keep me in line and it helps my determination. It also helps me judge a little better when I want to 'splurge' from time to time. The numbers used to bother me. Since I've found a madness (plan) that works for me and I'm losing, I'm more comfortable with what I'm doing, the numbers don't matter as much because I know I have the power to change them :happy:
  • wheels6030
    wheels6030 Posts: 26 Member
    I weigh every morning as well! I track it in an app that tracks my cycles and I like seeing how my weight changes depending on what time of the month is etc. Nothing wrong with it as long as you don't get obsessed. I actually don't really have a weigh-in day...I just track my weight daily on my app and then log it in mfp if it's less than my last weigh-in. Works for me.
  • queencat3
    queencat3 Posts: 30
    I weigh every single day. This is my motivation, accountability, and reality check all rolled up into one. I have been doing this long enough to not feel too anxious when I see the same three pounds come and go as I fluctuate from day to day. This may not work for everyone, but it works well for me!
  • sazrina
    sazrina Posts: 99 Member
    I weigh every morning but I only log on my weigh in day - Monday. The daily fluctuations do annoy me but I try to ignore them as long as weigh in day is ok.
  • Giovanna_Isabella_Santarelli
    Giovanna_Isabella_Santarelli Posts: 50 Member
    bump for later
  • BethAnnC448
    BethAnnC448 Posts: 45 Member
    I used to weigh myself daily but my dr discouraged me so it is back to once a week.
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    scales?
    How many do you have?
  • Justjoshin
    Justjoshin Posts: 999 Member
    If by scale, you mean 5'8" redhead.. I have that jumping on every morning problem too.
  • palmerb2
    palmerb2 Posts: 48 Member
    I have two scales in my bathroom. One is an old digital one that I get on daily to monitor my ups and downs looking for trends. The other is my Withings scale I got for Christmas last year. I only use it for official weigh ins as I have it set to automatically update this site.
  • palmerb2
    palmerb2 Posts: 48 Member
    If by scale, you mean 5'8" redhead.. I have that jumping on every morning problem too.


    lol
  • Cindyinpg
    Cindyinpg Posts: 3,902 Member
    I feel like weighing myself every day helps me stay accountable. I weigh myself in the morning before I hop in the shower and in the evening before I go to bed. .
    Me too. I ignore the variances (even the huge TOM ones) and look for the downward trend and weigh in 'officially' on Saturdays.
  • IouliaN
    IouliaN Posts: 16
    I weigh in every day - it helps me gage how I am doing and identify things that are working vs. not.
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    I do it quite intentionally. I've never understood why "experts" say not to do it, when studies show that people who have lost weight and successfully keep if off weigh every day. (To me those are the real experts.)

    My guess is because some people freak out when they see a .4 lb gain and either decide that they can't lose weight or decide they're eating too much and slash calories further and further.

    If you're the type of person where seeing a small gain will upset you, don't weigh daily. Otherwise, feel free.
  • Wantingslim
    Wantingslim Posts: 37
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  • lilbearzmom
    lilbearzmom Posts: 600 Member
    It's only a problem if it affects you mentally for the rest of the day. I am still in losing mode and these last 10 lbs seem to be taking forever to go away, so weighing every day is not good for me. I understand the science behind daily fluctuations, but it still frustrates me a little, therefore, not worth the daily weigh in. I put my scale away in the closet where it's not easily accessible. I have made a vow not to weigh in until Nov. 1. But feel free to weigh in everyday if you like to and it doesn't affect your whole day or feel like you want to give up. Just my 2 cents.

    BTW, I am planning on switching to daily weighing once I reach GW.
  • Iwishyouwell
    Iwishyouwell Posts: 1,888 Member
    For the first time in my life I got into daily weighing this past summer. That was never a problem; previously I always had the opposite issue, almost never weighing. I was losing fast, and it was exciting to watch the poundage melting off.

    After about two months I got sick of it though; it was becoming an obsession. I asked my wife to hide the scale TWICE (I found it accidentally). It broke the habit. I've known where the scale is for while now, but I've not stepped on it since mid August. I'm tracking my weight currently through visual changes and clothing. I've decided not to get back on the scale again until a certain pair of old jeans I have fit loosely.
  • kuger4119
    kuger4119 Posts: 213 Member
    I weigh every day too. I know people say you shouldn't, but I can't help it either. It eats at me all morning until I get on the scale and check.

    There is nothing wrong with checking the scales every day as long as you maintain perspective about it.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Move the scale.

    I also was weighing myself every day and coming up disappointed and obsessive, so I decided to not weigh for a whole month. It was very liberating.

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