Pros and cons of weighing daily vs weekly or monthly

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  • beamer0821
    beamer0821 Posts: 488 Member
    it all depends on you. if you allow the scale to control your emotions than i don't encourage daily weighing or even weekly weighing depending on the severity.

    i.e. when the scale does not say what you want, will that make you feel bad?

    additionally you need to understand from a biological level how weight fluctuates in your body.

    personally, i don't think daily weighing is really telling you anything useful.

    i think weekly is the most effective and useful measure, id monthly is even better. but when in weightloss mode i find weekly to be the most useful
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I weigh daily and it has helped me understand my personal fluctuations and actually keeps me from getting frustrated. Like the previous poster said, it keeps me from seeing a low day one week and a high day the next week and perhaps thinking nothing has happened. I don't log my weight every day though; I just note it and move on. If I weight a new low weight three days in a row then I will log it as a loss at MFP.

    same here.
  • 19vickb87
    19vickb87 Posts: 15
    I weigh daily . its a habit and I can't shake it . I don't get hung up on the number but I couldn't do it weekly or monthly
  • whitetgr1
    whitetgr1 Posts: 1 Member
    I'm a technical person and like to see the fluctuations, so I weigh myself daily in the mornings. However, I only "officially" log my weight once per week. That official recording also occurs on Thursday (mid-weekish), which allows any spiking on the weekends to not be a factor.

    For someone who cannot handle the daily fluctuations, I would recommend weekly weigh-ins only, but this method works for me.
  • TaintedVampyre
    TaintedVampyre Posts: 1,428 Member
    I weigh-in weekly. Once I hit a certain point in achieved goals I'll be weighing myself every 2 weeks or once a month (maintenance mostly).
  • Phill2488
    Phill2488 Posts: 97 Member
    I weigh every Monday, Wednesday and Friday

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