Addicted to the scales!

If you can't help yourself, get rid of them.

You're setting yourself up nicely for failure or an obsession with numbers.

I personally don't have a set because of the latter, and I weigh myself every 2 weeks to 3 months depending on when I get access to a set (at a relative's house, the doctor's etc).

I weigh myself daily but record it weekly.... same time every day, first thing in the morning. It's just part of my routine. If somebody asked my directly, I'd tell them I weigh myself weekly because that's what I record, but I do it every day. My scales are ancient digital scales though, so they only show it to the nearest pound so I don't see the really small fluctuations.

If you feel like it's becoming a problem for you, I would take the scales and put them away somewhere inaccessible. Don't leave them on the floor so you see them every time you go into the bathroom or wherever and get reminded of them. Decide how often you will record your weight (weekly, monthly, whatever) and make sure you deal with it then and only then. You could even get rid of them completely or put them to a friend or relative's house.

Oh, and I'm seconding the query about whether the popcorn was salty....?

Its fine weighing yourself every day as long as the number changing doesn't freak you out. I weigh myself every day and I just find it interesting.

I weigh daily just to see what's going on. I only record once a week.

Nothing wrong with weighing once in the morning, any more than that is getting ocd though..

I don't own scales. I go to the doctor's office and use their BMI machine to weigh myself every 6 weeks or so. Doing it that way has been a major key to my success, I think.

I have the same problem. Knowing I have that problem I have avoided my scale and only get weighed at the doctor's office each month and half when I have my scheduled appointments. I have been so tempted to get on the scale and weigh myself but I know that once I do I'll be on the scale more than 10 times a day, get fed up and quit just like I have with every other attempt and there have been many. Hide the scale, have someone else hide the scale if you can't break your habit. Please don't make yourself crazy like I did and derail.

It is very easy to become obsessed with weighing yourself multiple times per day...

Try weighing yourself once a week and taking measurements at the same time...

Often times (especially when regiment includes exercise and or weightlifting) your scale will document little change, however a measurement of specific areas of your body will show a drastic change... The measurements never lie...

Stick to your diet and let the day of measurements be the thing you look forward to each day...

"Eating things with a high or moderate sodium content, will lead to your body retaining water... This will lead to an increase at the scale, especially if you consume large amounts of water..."

I weigh myself daily. The under 5 pound fluctuations don't bother me but the 10 pound ones irk me slightly

Like some of the others, I weigh daily and record weekly. It isn't a problem as long as you understand that fluctuations from day to day and week to week are normal and it is the long term trend that you should really take seriously.

To your specific point... yes, it is impossible to gain 1.5 pounds of fat in a day while eating 1400 calories. Utterly ridiculous in its impossibility.

Just like it is ridiculously impossible to gain a pound of muscle in a day after having a good aerobics class (I hear that kind of nonsense occasionally).

Here's what's quite normal: Water weight swings of up to several pounds in either direction in response to muscles healing from exercise, hormonal fluctuations, water intake, eating more/less sodium than usual, eating more/fewer calories than usual (carbs seem to especially affect my water weight), taking meds that make you bloat (or diuretics), plus a lot of other random factors that I can't always explain. It isn't a big deal to gain or lose this weight, as it is just your body's normal water levels going up and down as your body needs more or less water to carry out daily functions.

We also see variation in what I call "colon weight", based on the weight of the food that I ate in previous days that is still "in the hopper" being digested... and also how long it has been since a bowel movement. Again, this weight doesn't matter. It goes up and down from day to day based on the routine actions of your digestive system.

Fat loss is what you care about, and that isn't going to dramatically happen day by day. It is a slow steady burn that shows up over time, with the other kinds of weight creating "noise" in your data. Which is why some people only measure longer term weight changes (weekly, monthly, etc.) . I happen to enjoy watching/studying what is going on with my body weight daily, but I don't stress random ups and downs.

You understand yourself that the readings are not meaningful in the way you're using them. There is a lot of spurious precision, that is the figure on the display isn't necessarily your exact weight. Plus a lot of the factors that influence your weight are down to things like water.

You know these things yourself. So why give them any power inside your head? I don't believe it sets you up to have a problem, but I don't think it is particularly useful. So if it's worrying you, by all means move them to your parents.

Hi, It's true, weighing every day is a disaster waiting to happen: I have just started and really want to hit those scales myself after just 2 days, but I wont, and will wait until the 7th day: That way I will get a wonderful surprise and some incentive....

It's also harder for women, we gain and drop so my fluid every couple of days:

My advice, weigh yourself naked at the same time every 7 days Good luck