How often should you weigh yourself?

How often do you weigh yourself on your weight loss journey?

I have been eating better and exercising for around a week now. I am 149 lbs., 5'6'' tall, and want to lose around 10-15 pounds. I honestly don't know how fast the weight will come off, so I don't want to weigh myself too often because I know that if the numbers aren't low enough, I will get discouraged and go back to the way I was before this past week. I am consuming around 1,200 calories a day and walking 4 miles in an hour (around 300-350 calories burned) each day. So how often do you think I should weigh myself? How often do you weigh yourself?

Some do it every day.
Some once a week.
Some once every 2 weeks.

Whenever you want really.

One thing you DO want to follow though is to always do so in the same fashion. Same clothes, or buck naked, same time of day, etc.

I go one step further and make sure I dont have any food or drink for 12 hours and eat light the day before.
Just do it the same each time to get the most accurate you can.

I like to weigh daily, but I will admit those fluctuations can drive a person crazy. I read somewhere about keeping a weight trend spreadsheet, and ever since I started doing that, I've been able to see more of the big picture and I don't get discouraged as easily if the scale shows a higher number for one or two days. As long as the trend is still going downward overall, that's what's most important.

I also take measurements once per month. It's just another way to measure progress. And definitely pay attention to how your clothes are fitting too. I've lost 11 pounds in 13 weeks (May was terrible. It has waaaay too many holidays) but I can already see a difference in how my pants fit.

I weigh myself before I go to bed and when I wake up. I just like to see how my numbers fluctuate through out the week.

i have my "official" weigh-in once a week, first thing after waking and going to the bathroom - with no clothes, btw, as different clothes can have different weights, and that can confuse the weight issue.

but to answer your question, i weigh myself almost every time i walk by the scale for entertainment value. my scale is pretty sensitive, and it shows the gain after drinking water or having something to eat, and i've discovered my workout shorts weigh a pound and my light-weight tshirt weighs .2 of a pound. for some reason seeing this stuff amuses me ;-)

I weigh daily after using the restroom in the morning, and i know from experience that I can get a couple of pounds variability on a daily basis. But if I see 3 consecutive days of increase I consider it 'real' and take corrective action.

A week is too long between weighings for me. I tend to cheat too much if I don't check daily.

I think the answer depends on your own psychology. What level of self-scrutiny keeps you motivated vs. what stresses you out?

I weigh morning and night. Much easier to see trends this way versus 1x a week. It use the Aria fitbit scale so it sends it to the website and graphs it without need to use a spreadsheet.

As often as you like.

The first forty pounds or so, I never weighed myself. I had no idea what I weighed, so I popped into the doctor's office and asked to use their scale. I was so happy that I bought one.

For a while, I'd be on it all the time, seeing what I weighed before and after I ate or pooped.

Some days I weigh once, some days more.

It's a little disheartening when you get on and you gained three pounds from the day before. All the fluctuations! I'm glad I didn't use it when I started losing. I'd have been dejected, I think.

Do what works for you! But don't flip out when there are fluctuations, especially around period time.

I weight myself whenever I'm near a scale (which is why I don't keep one at home .
I use Trendweight.com synced through my fitbit account (lets me do manual logs) so I can see the trend downward even when different scales give me different readings at different times of day.

I used to be so sad/annoyed when I'd weigh myself in the morning & be down, then the next day at the Doctors be up 3-5lb because it was midday with clothes on. Seeing how the weight can vary from day to day, but knowing I'm heading in the right direction, really helps.

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daily as soon as i wake up and gone to the bathroom.

At your weight don't expect to lose it fast. Remember a pound equals 3500 calories, so cutting that much out of your intake during a week is going to be difficult. Burning it off thru exercise would probably work faster, since we have to consume 1200 calories a day anyway.

As far as the scale once a week is fine. Albeit I am the same height as you and weigh in at 146, going to 140, and I weigh myself every other day, first thing in the morning. Anyway it's up to you.