How often do you weigh in?

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  • soze
    soze Posts: 604 Member
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    I weigh every day until I find a day I like.

    Only do that if you can abide by the rule of not letting the scale dictate how you eat.
  • reneeot
    reneeot Posts: 773 Member
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    Heads up with daily weigh ins - can become obsessive and many tend to let it rule their mood!:grumble:

    I weigh in weekly or 2x a week.

    :-)
  • life1979_24
    life1979_24 Posts: 147 Member
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    i weigh in on my wii every day when i wake up, in the group i joind we weigh in in fridays and i up date here randomly
  • tlp8rb
    tlp8rb Posts: 556 Member
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    My hubby is recovering from open heart surgery and he weighs every morning. We also do pulse, heart rate and blood oxygen levels twice a day.

    The weigh in is to guard against a sudden and unexplained weight gain which would indicate he is retaining water (a symptom of heart failure). The fluctuations you see when you weigh every day are generally an increase/decrease of fluid in your body. Try eating something (once) with a high sodium content and then weighing the next day. I can almost guarantee that you'll see a gain. Doesn't mean you've actually gained body fat - just that your body is retaining more fluid.

    In the long run I don't think it's important if you weigh yourself once a day, twice a day, once a week or once a month - it's what you're doing between the weigh ins that's important. Trust me when I tell you that you don't want to EVER be in the position my husband was eight weeks ago. He was flat-lined (twice) before going up to surgery. Flat-lined basically means dead.
  • Nargistsheikh
    Nargistsheikh Posts: 26
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    Hi,You have lost 50 lbs .That is awesome.Tell me you did it.
    Thanks
  • CupCaque
    CupCaque Posts: 4
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    I just started yesterday and I was tempted to weigh in today, but the number on the scale was the same so I decided I will do it once a week but weigh myself at home everyother day.
  • rrand85
    rrand85 Posts: 9
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    Every Saturday in the morning, Just because everyday would probably bring me down with wieght going up and down! So many things can change our wieght from day to day- water, TOM, muscle At the end of the week I can see what my hard work has done.
    I know people that only do it once a month! :)
  • shreddingit
    shreddingit Posts: 1,133 Member
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    I weigh every month, everyday/everyweek would be too tough on my mind!....
  • cbbecky
    cbbecky Posts: 17
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    Thanks for the replies everyone! I will try weighing in daily first thing in the morning, and see how it goes. If it starts to get me down from normal fluctuations, I might reconsider. If I'm sticking to my nutrition goals and exercise, then I should be proud of myself regardless of what the scale might say.
  • edorice
    edorice Posts: 4,519 Member
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  • ajbeans
    ajbeans Posts: 2,857 Member
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    I weigh in every time I use my Wii Fit, which varies according to what our day looks like and sometimes I use it more than others. But the only time I "count" it is once a week, on Tuesdays. On those days, I hop on at the same time of day, wearing the same outfit. If I work out with the Wii on another day, it makes me weigh in before I can play, but I don't log it or pay much attention to it.
  • Kendyl10
    Kendyl10 Posts: 9
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    I weigh myself every day. In the mornings, after my workout, before my shower (so my hair isn't full of water). I also log it every day, because that is the habit I got in when I did the initial weight loss stuff. I try not to let the fluctuation get to me, because at first, I totally let the scale run my diet. That is why I started counting the calories, and paying attention to that, not just the # on the scale

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