How often do you weigh yourself?

I weigh-in every week at the same time, after the same activities, in similar clothes... Previously I've weighed-in everyday and I've tried it once a month. 1x/week works the best for me as I just become a little obsessed with the number if I do it daily (and once a month is too long a wait... a weight... haha, I crack myself up).

As someone else said, if you can handle the fluctuations that daily weigh-ins bring, it's very interesting to see the effect "little" things have on you!

Hardly ever. I use to weigh myself once a week but now I go by look and feel.

Everyday. Buttttttt, I only log it on days that have gone down, or if it stays elevated a few days I put those numbers in too. I know my weight changes in both directions due to life. But that is the good part of this app, when you do go up in weight, you will know why. It's not a bad thing, it happens. Understanding why it happened is the key to long term success.

I found that understanding why my weight changed was important to me. I also found that by not being on a diet, but holding myself accountable for what happens increased my awareness, which in turn allowed me to lose weight.

So bottom line, weigh yourself as often as you want, or not.... Just hold yourself accountable

Everyday. Buttttttt, I only log it on days that have gone down, or if it stays elevated a few days I put those numbers in too. I know my weight changes in both directions due to life. But that is the good part of this app, when you do go up in weight, you will know why. It's not a bad thing, it happens. Understanding why it happened is the key to long term success.

I found that understanding why my weight changed was important to me. I also found that by not being on a diet, but holding myself accountable for what happens increased my awareness, which in turn allowed me to lose weight.

So bottom line, weigh yourself as often as you want, or not.... Just hold yourself accountable

THIS!

I weigh daily. I'm basically just logging my weight on days when I first record another pound of weight loss, and tracking the average over time (easy with MFP reports). I do not record the daily fluctuations.

With the MFP calorie/exercise tracking, I can almost predict when I should see another pound lost, but even that can be off by a few days in some cases. Still though, the trend shoudl be downwards for what I'm doing and the daily recording is how I keep track of that.

But that is the good part of this app, when you do go up in weight, you will know why. It's not a bad thing, it happens. Understanding why it happened is the key to long term success.

I found that understanding why my weight changed was important to me. I also found that by not being on a diet, but holding myself accountable for what happens increased my awareness, which in turn allowed me to lose weight.

So bottom line, weigh yourself as often as you want, or not....

This part of your post is exactly what I try and reply to posts and forums where people are saying weighing yourself everyday is bad. For me, it's good because it helps in the same way you explain here. Thank you for this

I use the Happy Scale app to record daily weigh-ins but I weigh in for updates here on a Friday (and do measurements once a month).

I find my Wii Fit to be wildly off from my scales but then again it's on a rug in front of my TV so I don't pay it that much heed! I go on the measurements from my bathroom scales when I get up.

I weigh myself every morning when I wake up. If you're the type who gets discouraged by seeing weight fluctuations then don't do it. For me, I find that it keeps me accountable.

Weighing yourself everyday is not good mentally (personal preference), and weight will fluctuate so much due to water retention, the amounts of carbs you eat, woman's cycle and a whole host of other factors.

I weight myself once a week, and take pictures every 4 weeks for comparisons. I also have something called a Myotape, with which i measure myself once a week in 9 places (chest, top belly, belly button, bottom belly, hips, arms, thighs) for absolute accuracy and progress. Simple to use, so accurate.

I also always weigh myself in the morning, after going to to the toilet, and before eating or drinking so this does not skew the scale results. Keep it consistent and the same each time.

I like to weigh myself every morning after loo and before intake; I then enter my weight into fitbit, and it syncs with MFP and trendweight. Easy! It eliminates the fretting over normal fluctuations.

+1

I do exactly the same thing, except I have a Withings Wi-Fi scale and it uploads to their site automatically, which then syncs with MFP. I'm able to look at the graph in the Withings app and see a) the normal little 1-2% fluctuations over time, but also b) the very clear downward trendline. When I hit a plateau for a few days or longer, I look at the graph and am reminded of previous plateaus and the significant weight loss that followed them.

It's not for everyone, though. I'm a bit of a quant when it comes to things like this, so it works for me. But it doesn't work for some people. My nutritionist has some patients who only weigh themselves once a month, and a few who never weigh themselves except during appointments, which might be eight weeks or more apart. There's no single right answer—it really depends on one's personality.