How often should you weigh yourself?

Depends who you are. I weigh daily. When I was losing, it helped me see patterns (up 2 after sushi/soy sauce), up 2 before ToM....

And in maintenance, it holds me accountable.

But if it makes you nuts, weigh weekly.

If you do weigh daily, only "weigh IN" once a week on the same day at the same time, in the same week, every day.

I weigh myself weekly. Keeps me from getting too obsessive about the scale.

I try every day...sometimes 2 times a day. Just to see trends. I DON'T weigh every day during that TOM. No way.

I weigh daily but only record on Mondays. I use to weigh daily and track it on my calendar and I'm SO glad I did. It really helped me to see trends and not freak out. An example is that I learned that not only do I tend to retain almost FIVE pounds during my cycle, but I also tend to retain when I ovulate. Gotta love those lady hormones! But once I learned the trends, I just record once a week.

bro you gotta weigh yourself 8, 10, more times a day, after every activity you do. you gotta know what activities cause weight loss. so maybe you made a powerpoint presentation, weigh yourself before and after...you gained 0.1 lbs? no more powerpoint for you, that's a fat magnet. pretty soon you got a list of all the stuff that makes you lose weight and you just do that stuff forever ya feel me

Hello. Once a week. Before I eat or drink anything in the morning.

weekly.

I'm going to go back to weighing myself weekly now because then I see more of a clear drop (hopefully at least!) My weight fluctuates so much that weighing myself every day involved being elated one day and feeling defeated the next.

I think I'm gonna start weighing myself daily and recording weekly because lately how I feel I've done that week is not translating on the scale! This should help me track where I go wrong as well as keep me honest.


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I step on the scale periodically throughout the day because the fluctuations fascinate me. I can wake up weighing 147, drink a large glass of water and be down 2 pounds by lunch. Crazy.. I only log it when I hit a new low weight, which (knock on wood) should be soon judging by the latest downward trend. I'm excited about that because I've been fluctuating the same 4 pounds for the last 4 months. I should probably count calories but I don't want to.

I weigh daily and graph the weights in order to observe the trend. This works as long as you're not freaked out by daily fluctuations. Daily weighing helps keep me accountable and on track.

My vote is for once a week. Smooths out any daily fluctuations, allows you to focus on overall trend.

There's no "should." Do it when you feel like doing it. Several times a day, once a month, whatever.

I didn't even have a scale for the first thirty or forty pounds and only got weighed at the doctor.

It comes off no matter how little or how often you look at the numbers.

I will be the lone voice arguing against weighing yourself even as often as every week. If you really want to see a trend line without exposure to fluctuations limit your weighing to once a month or every two months. People with eating disorders (I am one of them) can become obsessed with the scale and use a "good" number as a reason to cheat and a "bad" number as a reason to get depressed and then cheat. Better to faithfully log your food on MFP and watch for changes in the fit of your clothing - or in your measurements. These are a much better gauge of progress than a number on a scale which, as everyone notes, is kind of random anyway.

I weigh myself about once a day, just whenever I'm in the bathroom and think about it.
I only "officially" weigh in once a week, Sunday mornings. The daily ones help me keep track of weight fluctuations, but I think only logging weekly and at the same time helps me keep it accurate. So bloating or how recently I've eaten doesn't throw it off.