Better to weigh in once a day or once a week?

I prefer to weigh once a week, your body weight fluctuates daily based on a number of things, (water, sodium) etc, so the best thing to get a more accurate result would be to do it once a week But then again, that's just me ^^
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Def once a week (of course, I'm terrible about even that) while you're losing, because weight can fluctuate so much day-to-day. Once I reach my goal (and overcome my fear of the scale) I want to weigh myself a little more often, maybe 3-4 times a week, just to make sure I'm staying on track.

Whatever you feel better about. I weigh once a week, but sometimes peek at the scale once or twice more during the week.

Since I'm just starting, I'm more comfortable to weigh everyday. I want to know and learn how water/sodium/extra calories/etc affects me day to day. Once I learn what effects my body in the best ways, I could imagine myself dropping down to once or twice a week. That's just me, but I want to learn how to do it properly first!

If you're someone who is deeply affected by the number on the scale then the more infrequently, the better. It will give you a chance to assess "real" loss.

If you're a micro-manager of your life and are aware of how your body composition changes regularly on a daily basis then weigh as often as you'd like.

Definitely I am in the latter group! :laugh: I don't let the daily fluctuations bother me. Besides if you only get weighed once a week, how to you know that you aren't seeing a wild fluctuation on THAT day???

I need to do once a week. I usually do twice a day, and I go crazy.

I weigh in once a week but I tend to step on the scale a few times thruout the week as well just to see how I am doing...

Just for an experiement Sunday night, I weighed myself every 3 hours at work (I work 12 hr shifts). At 7pm, I weighed 220.1, at 10pm I weighed 225.6, at 2am I weighed 228.0 and at 5am, I weighed 227.9

Once a week for me. I was fretting over this 8 pound weight gain in 12 hours...

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I weigh twice a day----AM and PM at the same time dressed exactly the same way and record the weight......I don't get depressed when my weight goes up or celebrate when it goes down.....the consistent weighing allows me to see the fluctuations and the trends....over time I notice my weight going down (or up during the terrible time when I went to too many restaurants )

It has worked for me......not everyone can do it this way.
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I weigh once a day and the daily fluctutions do not phase me I have got used to them and prefer to figure out how my body works.

I agree that this method is not for the feint hearted!!! :bigsmile:

Even better is twice a month.

I agree.I weigh -in every other tuesday. Every other because I feel a week isn't enough time to reflect the changes I'm hoping for.Less disappointment.Tuesday because if i'm going to have an off day it's usually on the weekend so monday would be less forgiving!!

But see, here's where my theory comes in...if you only weigh in every other week, what if that weigh day is a flukey day, when you have had high sodium intake (or have muscle soreness from exercise, which also increases water retention)? Then you are depressed because you haven't lost in two weeks. Or conversely, if you have a big loss, which we all do from time to time. You think you are doing great, let things slide a bit, and at the next weigh in two weeks later, you are up a pound or two.

I definitely agree with the "get to know your body" and "understand the fluctuations " school of thought.

I guess maybe it might depend on how much you have to lose. If you have a LOT to lose, then you would expect to see a loss every two weeks. But if you are looking for a more moderate loss, where slower is definitely better, you might not see that big of a loss in two weeks, and TRENDS are more important.

I use a sheet of graph paper (I made my own on the computer). I have it taped to the back of my bathroom door. I plot my weight every morning. About a month and a half fits across the page (landscape). My goal has been to keep using the same sheet of paper, and when I get to the end (at the right), I start over, at the left. I am at a lower weight, so the lines don't ever overlap. That's my goal. So, on August 1st, I was at about 160. By 9/20 I was at 156. I started back at the left on 9/21 at 156, and made it to about 151 by 11/10. I started back on the left on 11/11...I'll admit, I have been hovering around 150 (Thanksgiving, a wedding, a bridal shower, working overtime so less exercise, etc). BUT, I'll be happy if when I move to the left of the sheet, at the end of December, I am below the 151 mark and my lines won't overlap. Know what I mean?

It may seem like a strange way to track it, but I don't want to lose a bunch of weight to turn around and gain it right back, so this is what works for me....:happy:

Even better is twice a month.

Or once a month...I like to measure for inches and my weight after 4 weeks of exercising and eating good.

When I weight myself more often, I get too stressed about it. I mean, if I am working out and can see a difference, and my clothes fit better, then I don't even care about the scale. If I step on the evil thing more often, it becomes an obsession.

I seen alot of ppl here say they weighed once a day when they first started only.

I have been on this website for about 6-7 months and I weigh every day (minus a few when I was out of town and didn't take the scale)... I realize how my body changes and some days it's 2lbs higher than the previous! I am prepared for that however and it actually makes me feel better to weigh in so often, it gives me a chance of accomplishment and knowing.

Just me though /shrug. It's a personal opinion and option.

But weighing daily also keeps me from late night snacking and drinking pop which is where I was most vulnerable before if I stayed up late and hadn't eaten in 5-6 hours. I usually stop eating or drinking around 7 pm no matter when I go to bed or at the most 3-4 hours before bed, so it doesn't affect my weigh in.. not sure how that would go if I didn't weigh every day.. I might cheat and go over calories.... it's tempting some nights!

Either way, thought I'd put my 2 cents in.