how often should one weight themselbes???

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  • Chain_Ring
    Chain_Ring Posts: 753 Member
    Yeah, I'm w/ Bama......I weight myself w/ different kinds of weights a couple times a week as well.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Depends. I record almost daily, then plot it in excel. The plots reveal the long term trends so I can ignore the daily variations.
  • endermako
    endermako Posts: 785 Member
    I weigh daily but don't record until Friday. It was originally on Sunday but I have more salt and less water on the weekend so I tend to have water weight on me through the first part of the week.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Given that the average person really doesn't understand natural body weight fluctuations and the propensity to vascillate over these natural body weight fluctuations, I'd advice no more than once per week.

    If you're an individual who has a better understanding of the inner-workings of the human body and understand that, for example, if you go eat something and then you go weigh yourself immediately afterwards that you are going to weigh more...because you consumed mass then you can probably weigh in more often.

    But really, it doesn't matter...it's all up to you and what you want in RE to data points for trend analysis...
  • KylaDenay
    KylaDenay Posts: 1,585 Member
    It is all up to your and your preference. I personally weigh myself once a week or every 2 weeks. I go by a weekly deficit, so I know as long as I stuck to my deficit that week, I should see a change on the scale the day after my week ends. Just how I look at it.
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    I recommend daily weigh-ins, with a huge caveat: you need to do some math to find the difference between your actual weight loss and the daily fluctuations, which are much larger.

    Your weight fluctuates depending on water, salt, and fiber intake, and other factors having nothing to do with calories. Using an exponentially smoothed weighted average can help you filter out the noise and focus on the trend, as John Walker explains in "The Hacker's Diet" (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/). The chapter on "The Rubber Bag" explains, briefly, the source of these fluctuations. The chapter on "Signal and Noise" explains how some simple math can filter them out. Walker explains how to do the math, but you can also set up a free account on his server to do it for you, or use a service like Beeminder or TrendWeight.com.

    If you're going to be all "OMG! I'm bloated!" if you see the number go up by 2 lbs. from one day to the next, then daily weigh-ins aren't for you. Personally, I'm not bothered, because it's the trend that matters. It's actually liberating to me to see how much my weight fluctuates from day to day.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    It really depends on you and your emotional investment in what the scale says. I weigh weekly because if I weigh daily the normal fluctuations can make me depressed, and when I am depressed, I eat.
  • SLMartucci
    SLMartucci Posts: 4 Member
    Not sure if anyone has said it..

    Weigh every morning at the same time and take a weekly average.
  • woofer00
    woofer00 Posts: 123 Member
    I weigh daily during my morning routine. It's not stressful, it keeps me honest with myself about where I am, what I ate, and the effect that had. If anything it helps me keep an eye and stop that behavior. Going up or down for a day is meaningless. The only time to get stressed is when it stays up there for a week or more.
  • SingRunTing
    SingRunTing Posts: 2,604 Member
    Not sure if anyone has said it..

    Weigh every morning at the same time and take a weekly average.

    I do this too.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Not sure if anyone has said it..

    Weigh every morning at the same time and take a weekly average.

    I do this too.

    Ditto. Dat data.

    When you weigh or if you weigh at all is personal preference OP, one way is not "better" than another other than one thing and that is if you are going to weigh yourself to compare one weight to another you should be consistent in your method. Same time of day, same or at least similar clothes etc.
  • amandzor
    amandzor Posts: 386 Member
    I'll weight myself first thing in the morning whenever I remember to. Sometimes a few days a week?

    I try not to overweigh because weight fluctuates. So once a week is probably best.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Totally personal preference. I weigh most days but I only count Friday. Then I log it no matter what it says, same, up or down.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    As a personal preference daily weight in the morning + 7 day interval moving average = very predictable, linear, easy to follow weight loss. Use said trend to make adjustments as needed to stay on track. The way you get hard to predict weight fluctuations is from having not enough data not from having to much data.

    I'm sort of a data junky though so its personal preference and I wouldn't tell someone who weighed themselves once a week or not at all that they were somehow doing it wrong.

    I do feel for myself though that the daily weigh-in really helps me to keep a hold of it and stay on track and keep at that steady 1.4 pound loss per week.

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  • FitnessLover001
    FitnessLover001 Posts: 188 Member
    I weigh first thing in the morning, every morning, but I only record my weight every Sunday. I know my weight fluctuates daily but I just like making sure it's about the same everyday
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    Daily. I spike and drop a lot, so it helps keep me sane to see a solid trend.
  • btsinmd
    btsinmd Posts: 921 Member
    I weigh myself when I remember in the morning, so sometimes it's daily, sometimes twice a week. I keep track of it with my smartphone app and I update MFP when I've stayed that way for a week or so.

    I don't consider it a 'real' weight for MFP if it's just after I've done a run in the morning or immediately after I've been on vacation, although I do put those weights in my smartphone app. Last month I went on vacation for a week, I came back and had gained 4 lbs, despite not eating badly at all. I weighed myself daily that week and dropped about a lb a day until 6 days later I was down 5 lbs from that first just back from vacation weight, and 1 lb from what I had been two weeks before. Since then I've continued to (much more slowly now) drop in weight. That sort of thing happens all the time.

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