Weighing oneself; how often?

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  • WisheeNY
    WisheeNY Posts: 72 Member
    I weigh every Monday morning
  • AHack3
    AHack3 Posts: 173 Member
    I weigh in every Wednesday morning at the same time of day and wearing about the same amount of clothes.
  • ahancock90
    ahancock90 Posts: 3
    LOL! good idea. but I only go about once a week, which is a real problem for me that I'm trying to fix
  • AtticWindow
    AtticWindow Posts: 295 Member
    I weigh myself every morning and night, but I only record it twice a week, just because. I like weighing a couple of times every day because I can see how certain foods, behaviors, etc. are affecting my weight, but I don't like recording every day because the number can change so dramatically. (Read "dramatically" as up to 4lbs in either direction throughout the day.) (I don't have an emotional/motivational problem with the data points going up and down, I just prefer the twice-weekly record.)
  • ahancock90
    ahancock90 Posts: 3
    Good job with your progress!
  • AtticWindow
    AtticWindow Posts: 295 Member
    Good job with your progress!

    Thanks! :flowerforyou:
  • crissi725
    crissi725 Posts: 82
    A couple times a week. But mostly just out of curiosity. The fluctuations are interesting but nothing more than just fluctuations. I prefer to measure the parts of myself that I am self conscious about. That gives me a better idea of how I'm progressing.
  • _KitKat_
    _KitKat_ Posts: 1,066 Member
    I weigh daily or even multiple times daily. I do this to understand my bodies fluctuations, I do not get upset by an individual number... the trend and range are what is important. I started doing this after watching people freak about 2 lbs up from last week and maybe they just had to pee and had a lot of salt, I needed to know how my body worked and it made the individual weigh ins easier to handle.
  • alexuh
    alexuh Posts: 108 Member
    Usually once every 1-2 weeks - on a Wed/Thurs or Fri (before my weekend treat and never ever immediately after it!) to ensure I'm not dropping much more weight due to having hit my final goal!
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,472 Member
    I find the opposite: if I weigh myself daily, I KNOW my weight is going to fluctuate, so I don't get discouraged when I gain from day to day. If I weighed once a week, I'd be disappointed if my weight went up.

    The other thing I like about daily weighing is that it's easier to see trends in weight (using the "reports" section, which gives you a nice graph). It also just keeps me on track, by reminding me that I'm watching my weight (and also keeps up my days logged on MFP, because I log in every day to enter my weight).

    What you could do if you want to weigh daily is change your scales to weigh in a format that isn't so familiar to you. For instance, I "think" in stones, but I weigh myself in pounds. The weight in pounds doesn't mean much to me - it's just a number. I've done this before by weighing in kg as well. It means I can accurately track the numbers, but I have less emotional attachment to them, if you know what I mean!
  • chari182
    chari182 Posts: 24 Member
    I weigh myself every morning. I write down my weight once a week (usually Mondays) and that's the only time it really "counts" to me.
  • GreatDepression
    GreatDepression Posts: 347 Member
    I started weighing myself every day this week. It's kind of emotionally difficult to log it in MFP when the scale goes up. It sucks to see that graph suddenly go up. I'm trying to get over this and just see the scale number as data.
  • golferd
    golferd Posts: 400 Member
    3 times daily on average or every time I walk by. My weight can fluctuate lbs between meals, I record lows. Works for me
  • kikityme
    kikityme Posts: 472 Member
    I don't obsess about it, I just find it entertaining.

    I'm the same. Every day, completely naked, after I've peed :tongue:
    I look at it as another tracking/motivational tool. If I've gone up, I work harder that day, even though I know it could be anything. And if I go up a couple days in a row, I know it's a monthly beyond my control thing.
  • feliscatus84
    feliscatus84 Posts: 80 Member
    Well I'll admit that I'm quite the scale *kitten*. I weigh myself daily and I do it because it helps me in check. I do expect fluctuations here and there but anything over 1-2lbs has me saying "why?!" and that's typically because I try to follow a diet lower in carbs and salt as much as I possibly can. Also if you haven't gone numero 2 it can also change your weight. I try not to be a slave to the number though. Just as long as I'm seeing consistent weight loss I'm happy.
  • sealionwoman23
    sealionwoman23 Posts: 42
    I also weigh daily for the datapoint but don't pay much attention to the actual number. I use an app called WeightTrend+ and input the weight there. It then calculates a "moving average" for me -- this is a 7-day average of my daily weights. So even though there are ups and downs, my trend weight is always going down, which is what I pay attention to.

    I then record my trend weight in MFP once a week. So in my ticker where it says 10 lbs lost, that's based on my trend weight for Wednesday. If I had told MFP my actual scale weight that day, it would have been 12 lbs down from my start, but my trend weight is always a little higher because it is factoring in the seven previous (and slightly heavier) days. I am okay with this because I'd rather acknowledge that I haven't actually lost the weight until it doesn't "come back" the next day.

    There are other apps that calculate a moving average -- I've seen other MFPers use Happy Scale, I think it's called. I know other folks also just use an Excel doc.

    So many fantastic ideas here!!! I think I'm going to try what Nedra said above; as several of you said, the daily numbers are great feedback but I need a way to remove the emotional attachment to them. I'm a data junkie with other aspects of my life, so I'm excited to start looking at weight loss this way, too!
  • sealionwoman23
    sealionwoman23 Posts: 42
    I generally only weigh myself if I poop in the morning, lol

    And this kills me... :laugh:
  • karencercone1
    karencercone1 Posts: 29 Member
    I try not to weigh myself everyday, for the possiblities of fluctuations. Once a week. I started measurements every 2 months, that is more gratifying then the weight loss! Feel free to friend me! Karen
  • LovelyBones1901
    LovelyBones1901 Posts: 2
    I weigh myself 3 times a day.
    At 8 am.
    At 5:30 pm.
    And at 11 pm.

    A little obsessive but I feel okay with it.
  • Radioactive_Starfish
    Radioactive_Starfish Posts: 7 Member
    I weigh weekly and do monthly measurements. :)
  • Guinness80
    Guinness80 Posts: 39 Member
    I weigh multiple times a day but only log it twice a week.
  • Flutterloo
    Flutterloo Posts: 122 Member
    I weigh daily. I don't have scale anxiety or anything. It's just to see what it says. More of a habit than anything. I only record what I lost/gained every week or so.
  • 257_Lag
    257_Lag Posts: 1,249 Member
    Wake, pee, weigh, record it every day. Make a cool chart with a phone app and if I am feeling down (rarely) I just zoom out and look at the big picture rather than the last few days or even weeks.

    My issue with once a week is we all know there are fluctuations and what if your weekly weigh in is on one of those spikes? Glad it works for some but not me.
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    I don't own a scale. I go to the doctor's office and use their BMI machine every 4-6 weeks. It keeps me from getting preoccupied by the numbers, and also makes this feel more like a lifestyle change rather than a short-term condition that I'm closely monitoring. Also, seeing 4-12 lb losses each time I step on a scale are motivating as hell.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    I weigh myself weekiy. I have to make sure I do not lose to much weight in a week.

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