Have you decided not to weigh yourself daily? Please share:)

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  • JG762
    JG762 Posts: 571 Member
    I like to see where I am. I weigh everyday. I look for trends. And hopefully, the trend is maintaining or going down. But it is a trend. And without that, I would give myself license to gain. I have to look at that number every single day. It is about being accountable - not really the specific number.

    BTW, I also don't beat myself up over it. I know it is one day and that I have the power to change it.

    THIS THIS THIS ^^^
    I weigh everyday for these exact reasons and it keeps me honest with myself.
  • scrocke
    scrocke Posts: 39 Member
    I weigh myself once a week, however I am more concerned with my measurements and how my clothes fit. If the scale reads the same for two weeks but my measurements say I lost an inch then that's progress!
  • mackemom
    mackemom Posts: 277 Member
    Yes, daily for me works--I realize the weight will fluctuate but I am really enjoying weighing daily so I can look at the chart in reports and see the line go down...sometimes it will probably go up, but as long as there is a downward trend, all is good ;)
  • amandakev88
    amandakev88 Posts: 328 Member
    once a week, first thing i wake up, after i pee, before eating or drinking. small fluctuations in a day can be very discouraging.
  • xkimberlee007
    xkimberlee007 Posts: 44 Member
    small fluctuations in a day can be very discouraging.
    I agree this is why I totally gave up a few months ago . But this time I'm not giving up no matter what I just want to make it more enjoyable :)
  • MissGamerGirl
    MissGamerGirl Posts: 187 Member
    I would never weigh myself daily. Your weight changes daily - hell, hourly, even. It all relates to chemistry in some shape or form - water retention, sodium levels, if you're on your period, if you ate or didn't eat before you weighed yourself, etc.

    I weigh myself every Saturday morning under the same exact conditions: I wake up, go to the bathroom, then weigh.

    I like to kind of see what my body is thinking as the weeks go by, so that's why I weigh at all. I like to see patterns and correlations.
  • knra_grl
    knra_grl Posts: 1,566 Member
    once a week, first thing i wake up, after i pee, before eating or drinking. small fluctuations in a day can be very discouraging.

    Yes once a week is good for me too. I started on a Wednesday so that is my weigh day.
  • aniqa109
    aniqa109 Posts: 364 Member
    I tried to do it once a week but found myself weighing every other day..especially when i was getting small losses..but after reading that post ..it just cleared everything..and my clothes are looser ..yet scales are showing no loss!
    Ive decided to weigh myself after a few weeks or 2 weeks ..i think that would be better for me
    I regret throwing out my old dial scale and buying a pricey digital one.
    I realised now numbers on the scale arent everything!
  • MissJazzie14
    MissJazzie14 Posts: 60 Member
    I weight myself once a month and this is for my sanity. When I first started dieting, I will weigh myself before I work out and after. It was at the point where I will basically starve myself just to see pounds drops. I don't know if any other females have this problem but around my menstrual cycle, I tend to gain some weight from the bloating and that is another reason why i decided to weigh myself on the last day of the month because if we drink a lot of water the scale will say you gain some ounces or even having layers of clothes will add extra pounds to the scale. I knew weighing everyday will set myself up for failure so I started again with my diet on December 16 and I had my first weigh in December 31 and was down 16 lbs. I know its a lot of weight in a short period of time but starting off over 400 lbs and eating healthy, I thought it was normal. I have my second weigh in Jan. 31 and I can't wait =)

    I wish everyone luck on their journey =)
  • venus_blue
    venus_blue Posts: 103 Member
    I "officially" weigh myself once a month and chart that weight. I might step on the scale once a week to see where I stand in the interim. It helps keep me focused on eating in a way so that I don't get bloated and gives me a nudge if my resolve is slipping but I don't feel tied to the scale and that weekly weigh-in isn't written in stone, as far as I am concerned.

    As a sort of experiment, I have weighed myself a few times over the course of two days. Mostly just to remind myself that weight fluctuations are normal and can be insane, even in the space of just a few hours and that I should not let it mess with my head. (My husband and I both thought the differences were just too funny, how could I have gained 3 pounds since breakfast?! Did I really lose 2 pounds just from going to the toilet!? Swimming in the pool made me weigh in almost 1.5 pounds more?!) It worked. I don't obsess daily over the number on the scale anymore and it's nice to have one less stress.
  • fallenoaks50
    fallenoaks50 Posts: 84
    I weigh myself on the 1st of every month. In the past I have been discouraged when the scale doesn't show what I think it should, so I'm trying to stop focusing on it too much.
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    I weigh myself once every couple of months. An honest look in the mirror will tell you if you are progressing. Or taking measurements is a better indicator of progress and also how you're clothes fit.
  • mlauraa
    mlauraa Posts: 166 Member
    Hell no. Every time i gained weight backwas because i stopped weighing myself. It leads to not weighing your food, and eventually stop exercising. Dont stop, trust me.
    Im not goIng to stop logging food and exercising I'm just thinking I should weigh myself once a week on the weekends at someone else's house :)

    I totally get where he is coming from, i also stopped weigh in every other day and as a result of not keeping tracK of my weight i GAINED! The scale was a form of motivation for me, if i gained a pound i would go hard at the gym to make sure i lost it again.

    But i guess it depends on the person, not everyone will agree with me.
  • SadieRose07
    SadieRose07 Posts: 104 Member
    I weigh myself once per week, on Saturday morning.
  • Smashley1947
    Smashley1947 Posts: 129
    I am much more obsessed over inches.

    I want to track my measurements over how much I weigh.

    I also know I am going to lose weight so I plan on weighing myself one or twice a month. Just don't get too focused on the numbers, your weight can fluctuate. The important thing is how much better you look and feel.

    I meant to weigh myself on Tuesday at the scale at the gym, but forgot. so I will wait until Friday when I go again.
  • dittmarml
    dittmarml Posts: 351 Member
    Have noticed it's sometimes a trigger for overeating for me no matter which way it moves so have put it away. Plan to weigh once or twice a month because I do want the accountability.
  • airdiva1
    airdiva1 Posts: 198 Member
    When I started, never had a true idea of what my weight was. I knew it was over 300,but ashamed.
    I finally got on the scale a few weeks later and was 291. I didn't get back on until weeks later on Thanksgiving afternoon and was 17lbs lighter!
    I try to weight once a week,but alot of times it's every other week.
    If I did weight everyday, would get depress
  • mariaborden37
    mariaborden37 Posts: 11
    I decided to weigh myself once a week on Mondays. Monday this week was the day I started. I am one of those people that gets hung up on the number and I need ti stick with this. Why put myself through the torture of water fluctuations etc...
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Most people probably shouldn't weigh themselves daily. Most people simply don't understand how this works...don't understand natural weight fluctuations, etc. To boot, most people are overly obsessed with that number on the scale and don't even really know what that number means.

    I myself weigh in pretty much every day...at least 3-5 days per week at any rate. I like data and analyzing data and I understand how all of this works and I understand daily fluctuations and I know that my weight isn't static...fluctuations do not bother me in the least and I am far more interested in long term trend analysis. But most people on MFP aren't there and should really be doing once per week at the most...same time and under roughly the same conditions.
  • NCchar130
    NCchar130 Posts: 955 Member
    Started out weighing only once a month because I was worried I would get too obsessed over the number. I also take pics and measurements. But eventually I went to daily weighing because I found that I wasn't obsessed and didn't melt down if I was up 2 pounds from the day before. I find it kind of fascinating actually, seeing how different things affected the number via water weight. I 'gain' the day after strength training, after several doses of ibuprofen, from eating too much salt, from hormonal fluctuations. Interestingly, I 'lose' the day after HIIT workouts. All that is basically meaningless as far as fat loss goes, but it does help me keep my head on straight, strangely enough.

    My all time record was a 7 pound 'gain' 'after two free days one holiday including two huge meals with family at home and then a second day where I ate pizza and Chinese food with no restrictions. It was gone in 4 days (and another pound with it).
  • nessa2BFit
    nessa2BFit Posts: 155 Member
    for me weighing dailly even once in morning and once before bed works... i don't freak if it goes up or down i just know when it is time to be honest with myself and stop being lazy and get up and work out instead of staying in bed... i also measure once a month and take pictures so if the scales don't move but the measurments go down i know it is working... i think it depends on the person if you obsess over every little tenth then it is probably not a good thing...
  • Fitnin6280
    Fitnin6280 Posts: 618 Member
    I weigh myself daily. I am obsessed, I will admit it, but I am okay with it.
  • episcopal
    episcopal Posts: 1
    I struggle with this whenever I go through periods when I've been off my regular exercise routine. This happens when there are long days at work and when the "unexpected" happens and I have to shift my schedule. But as someone else has said, weight does fluctuate. There will be ups and downs no matter how well we eat and how much exercise we accomplish.
  • Foodiethinking
    Foodiethinking Posts: 240 Member
    I weigh myself less frequently than before on other diets and fads- maybe that's my 'dealbreaker' this time.. I'm less inclined to give up or get down if I'm not relying on a number. Everyone has a hopeful number in mind when they step on the scales or where they think they are only to sometimes be disappointed. I haven't weighed myself in 2 weeks and won't do until next weekend. I don't have personal scales but since coming round to the idea of long-term, maybe it's best. I just intend to weigh myself at my mum's instead. I KNOW I would become obsessed with it anyway if I did!
  • AppleGrapeMSTK
    AppleGrapeMSTK Posts: 16 Member
    I totally weigh every day. It's part of my morning routine. I like to see the small changes. I am down .2 of a pound from yesterday. It keeps me motivated, like I must be doing something right, so I better keep at it! I know that the scale can change a whole lot in the course of a day, so I give myself some leeway. I just get pumped when it goes down, no matter how small.
  • MorgueBabe
    MorgueBabe Posts: 1,188 Member
    I don't even weight myself monthly.
  • jeffpettis
    jeffpettis Posts: 865 Member
    If you're the type of person that will obsess over the number then you shouldn't do it every day. If you are the type that can use it as a tool no matter what it says then do it every day.

    I weigh myself everyday, at the same time, and keep track of it. I only log my weight on MFP once every week or so. It's a good tool to see trends and correct problems before they get too far out of hand but it is just that, a tool.

    I couldn't imagine going a month and not weighing myself. For me, 30 days is a long time to stay at maintenance or ,even worse, gain a few pounds while blissfully doing the same thing day in and day out without knowing what is happening. If I maintain my weight for more than 7 or 8 days then I know that something isn't right and I can fix it. I would hate to jump on the scale at the end of the month and realize that I hadn't done anything different but had time to fix it and didn't...

    But that's just me... :drinker:
  • Followingsea
    Followingsea Posts: 407 Member
    I am a ridiculous data nerd* so I weigh myself daily, sometimes multiple times a day. I like having a better handle on the correlation between how I feel physically vs how much I weigh vs my recent diet vs what I see in the mirror.

    This works for me only because I don't assign any value to the number on the scale, though. I expect it to go up and down, so I don't get upset when it ticks upward and stays there for a couple days. This wasn't true when I was younger -- a few years ago, when I did tie self-worth to that number, weighing at night after dinner would have been incredibly emotionally destructive. These days, though, the emotion involved is curiosity and not anxious trepidation.


    *There's a spreadsheet. It's bad.
  • 32sami
    32sami Posts: 380 Member
    I rarely weigh myself because I think scales are a culprit. I go by how I feel and how my clothes fit.
  • Sunitagt
    Sunitagt Posts: 486 Member
    I weigh myself daily and record it daily. I weigh myself in the same conditions at the same time of day in the same point of my routine, and if I can't be there at that time then I don't weigh in that day. I think this is the most accurate picture of my progress, and it helps me keep on track to see the graph with the more detailed data points. I still keep a log of the change for each week, but this way I can calculate that change for any two points in a week or month, and correlate it with my average calories. I think it will be most helpful when I (someday very, very far away) get to my UGW.

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