Do you record weight gains?

Sometimes I do, if my water weight doesn't come off in about 3 days, I'll decide to record my gain and go from there, but usually the next day, my weight plummets back to where it was orginally, then I feel like such a dumbo.

As long as your doing the right things, no need to record your water weight.

Nah, because honestly I always float between 1-3lbs difference in my weight range.

I'll record the lowest number, say if I weight 257 and the next day I weight 258.5 I don't record that because I know numbers change daily.

Usually after a week or so though I'll be down a little further than the lowest number recorded and I can remind myself that it's working.

Everyone is different.

Yes, I record my weight every Monday no matter the result. Did when I was losing and still doing it in maintenance. I personally need this kind of accountability to stay on the wagon.

I only used to if I'd gone a couple of weeks and it was up, ie I knew it was more than just water weight. Now I've started carb cycling I weigh and log daily.

I basically do the same thing as you. I only ever record my losses on MFP. I "record" those normal, pesky 2lb fluctuations in my mind, and I use them to motivate me to exercise harder and pay a little more attention to my macros - specifically sodium.

I don't record the loses because it feels self defeating and serves no purpose towards my goal. I know I'm steadily losing and that's where I put my focus.

Now, if I go off the deep end and binge for a week or gain a legitimate 5/10 lbs on vacation, I will log that as a reality check!

I only record losses.

If you record a gain, nothing gets posted on your news feed, but when you re-lose that pound you just gained, it gets posted. It bothers me when my MFP friends congratulate me on the same pound they congratulated me on last time.

I suppose I could just adjust my settings to not post any weight change, but I kinda like the atta girls for legitimate losses.

If I really fall of the wagon and gain an amount that stays there for a while, I fess up and record the gain.

In short, YES, I record gains. However, I stopped frequent weigh ins because I can gain 5-8 lbs over a holiday/weekend and its all gone by Tuesday/Wed. In the beginning I felt funny about getting acknowledgments for losing water weight gains so I stopped recording.

Currently, I am weighing myself weekly as an effort to publicly be more accountable. I am happy around 200, crept up to 210 .... but thinking I should recommit myself to me original goal of 190 and see how I feel there. I will probably go back to less frequent weigh ins in April or 190. :-)

I only record loses because if I see a gain it's usually only a pound or 2 and just due to the time of day I weighed or temporary water weight from too much salt. If I were to have gained say 3 lbs or more, I would log that.

I logged a gain once. I hated it so much, I didn't log it again. Heck, I earned my weight loss. Gaining a little back doesn't negate it.

I do not like to record weight gains *on this site* on the days they happen, I have found that it makes my mood suffer that day. But I do record my weight in my desk calendar every morning whether it is up or down and this doesn't bug me as much.

After a week or so, I go back and record each day's weigh-in in MFP. This way I can still have the graph that shows me all the ups and downs without having to deal with the emotional ups and downs of recording it on MFP each day (you can do this through "Edit Previous Entries"). I don't know why it bothers me so much to record it online even though logically I *know* there will be fluctuations, but it does, and so I avoid the mental/emotional stress and just log days when I have a loss and log all the other days retroactively.

This works for me for now.

If it's period gains, I don't log it. I know it'll be gone in two weeks, and it's not "real" weight to me.

That being said, if I gain weight outside my normal period fluctuations, and it stays there for more than three days, I log it. Three days is long enough to know I didn't just eat a ton of salt or something and I'm actually going to have to work that weight back off.

Depends. If it's water weight or my TOM gain, I don't record it. If it's because I'm retaining food, I'll record it.

I only record what I feel is a real weight gain. E.g. I took three weeks off from weighing both my body and my food and didn't track (I was on a vacation/cruise) so when I got back I weighed in and had gained something like 9lbs. I recorded the weight gain. But last week I was away in Vancouver for 4 days and gained 3 lbs but I know I didn't eat enough to have put that much weight on so I didn't record the gain, I'll wait until my weigh in on Friday and if it's still up then I'll record the gain.

I do the same....

I was feeling philosophical about my weight loss earlier and realised that I never record weight gains. If I go up a few pounds I'll feel frustrated but I never log it on MFP. I wait until my weight inevitably drops back down to what it says on MFP and then if I lose another lb I will log that. So sometimes I might be losing/gaining weight due to normal fluctuations, but overall if I've lost say 10 lbs then I can be sure I have definitely lost weight from my starting point. If every time I went up a lb I recorded it, I'd end up losing motivation. Knowing yourself that you need to get back to MFP weight before you can log a loss gives you more motivation to work harder. That's just how I've been thinking; what do you do?

I did, but this week I decided I'm only going to weigh myself on Monday. That will be a realistic view.