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HELP! What weight should I use on scale?

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  • KikoAlonsoGal
    KikoAlonsoGal Posts: 88 Member
    Yes, daily weighing drives me a little nuts but I can't stop! Haha
  • Dewymorning
    Dewymorning Posts: 762 Member
    Maybe I just need my husband to hide the scale? Because I can't not weigh myself when the scale is right there. LOL

    We have two bathrooms, and one has the scale in it, so I only use that bathroom when it is weigh in time and use the other bathroom the rest of the time (unless someone else is using it).
  • KikoAlonsoGal
    KikoAlonsoGal Posts: 88 Member
    We have one bathroom, so I guess I have to play "hide the scale". LOL My hubby always yells at me for weighing myself that much but it's like an itch waiting to be scratched!
  • scubasuenc
    scubasuenc Posts: 626 Member
    I can't deal with the daily weight fluctuations. I prefer weekly, first thing in the morning. That said, I may get on the scale another day during the week, but only my Monday morning weight counts for loss.

    I agree there are many factors that influence the variation, but I have found the weekly weigh ins pretty close. I track my calories in and calories burned and can 'predict' my weight loss. Most weeks my weight on the scale is within .5 lbs of what my deficit would predict. I have also been able to use my calorie and weight data to calculate my personal TDEE. I have found I've become numbers obsessed, but the number on the scale is the one I least worry about. I am far more concerned with accurately logging my calories and figuring out my exercise burns. At the end of the day, it is a sustained calorie deficit that moves the scale.
  • KikoAlonsoGal
    KikoAlonsoGal Posts: 88 Member
    I can't deal with the daily weight fluctuations. I prefer weekly, first thing in the morning. That said, I may get on the scale another day during the week, but only my Monday morning weight counts for loss.

    I agree there are many factors that influence the variation, but I have found the weekly weigh ins pretty close. I track my calories in and calories burned and can 'predict' my weight loss. Most weeks my weight on the scale is within .5 lbs of what my deficit would predict. I have also been able to use my calorie and weight data to calculate my personal TDEE. I have found I've become numbers obsessed, but the number on the scale is the one I least worry about. I am far more concerned with accurately logging my calories and figuring out my exercise burns. At the end of the day, it is a sustained calorie deficit that moves the scale.

    Yep, I know better. If I'm eating my calorie goal or less and exercising, I know I'll lose the weight. It just gets frustrating when you want to tell someone how much weight you've lost and you really don't know!
  • David_AUS
    David_AUS Posts: 298 Member
    I get obsessive with weighing as well - Everyone is different and I find for me a weekly weigh in just not give me enough "bulk data" to monitor progress. Even when I know I have a "system" that is working - Currently I only weigh once per day that I log - I may weigh myself at night but I never log it - I know that I generally "lose" 0.08 - 0.10 kg per hour of sleep.
  • missomgitsica
    missomgitsica Posts: 496 Member
    They are trivial. IMO you need to stop weighing yourself so often. Obsession is very rarely good or helpful.
  • Anonycatgirl
    Anonycatgirl Posts: 502 Member
    My husband laughs...but I get so peeved if I weigh less the day after "official weigh-in day" than I do the "official" day and I look back and realize I'd had a lot of sodium or something the day before the official day. So I feel your pain. I try to restrict the weigh-ins to once a week, but I get curious!
  • KikoAlonsoGal
    KikoAlonsoGal Posts: 88 Member
    My husband laughs...but I get so peeved if I weigh less the day after "official weigh-in day" than I do the "official" day and I look back and realize I'd had a lot of sodium or something the day before the official day. So I feel your pain. I try to restrict the weigh-ins to once a week, but I get curious!

    This!! Hahaha I always weigh more on weigh-in day! Darn you gravity!
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