How often do you weigh yourself?

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.

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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.

every morning after I use the bathroom and before I eat anything

Daily, and log when there is a new low.

Every day, first thing in the morning, but I only log on Fridays gain or loss.

It's really a personal decision and depends on how well you can handle seeing normal fluctuations in weight. If you aren't going to get upset and let an increase ruin your day and you are curious daily then weigh daily. If it is going to bother you the entire day then I'd say don't weigh daily. What I do is get on once in the morning and if my weight is less I record it and go on with my day. If it is the same or higher I don't record it and still go on with my day. If it was consistently higher and I knew it was a real gain I would record it but the normal fluctuations I don't bother with. For tracking purposes I only write down my weight once a week. Weighing daily has helped me learn what kind of pattern my weight comes off in and I'm a bit of a numbers geek so I like that.

I saw someone posted a suggestion before of writing down weight every day and then making an average of the 7 days and recording that so you can look at the trending instead of caught up on each individual weight.

I just started a challenge on here that has Friday weigh-ins, so I will now be weighing weekly. Before it was pretty haphazard.

Daily for me, but I record it weekly

Like Kommodo (whose English is fine) said...

Let me tell you a story: Back in my pre-menopausal days, my weight would fluctuate wildly from day to day. I was attending TOPS, and one week I had a 5-pound gain. Yuck, right? Well, the next week I had an astounding 11-pound loss that everybody freaked out about. I think you can guess what's coming next... The following week I gained 5-1/2 pounds, for a net loss over three weeks of 1/2 pound. One week I was holding water, and the following week I was dehydrated -- 11 pounds difference in water weight alone. Nothing to do with gaining or losing fat mass.

I absolutely weigh daily. It is my motivation and it keeps me accountable. If I've lost, then it means I'm on track. If I've gained, it's a warning that perhaps I need to be more careful. And if there are gains over several days, then I definitely need to assess what's going on. And if one day I'm one weight and the next day I'm 5 pounds heavier, I know it isn't fat gain!

Monthly weigh-ins would be a disaster for me. All the little cheats would start to add up... I need the accountability.

I'm doing IF so I weigh after each fast day. However, I only use my Sunday morning weigh-in to log progress on here. I usually fast on Sunday and Wednesday so logically I should be at my 'heaviest' on Sunday morning.

I go in cycles, Sometimes I weight twice a day, morning and night just because I find it interesting to see the fluctuations and correlation to what food, exercise, water and other factors play into the slight osolations in weight.

Then I'll forget about it for weeks or a month at a time before I get back on a scale kick again and monitor it daily for awhile.
The longest I went was a year and a half because the battery in my digital scale died and I was to lazy to change it.
I finally weighed in at my doctors and I was a few pounds heavier then the year before.

There's nothing wrong with weighing yourself daily if you understand it's just data with no emotional attachment.
Stepping on the scales in the morning is just part of my routine the same as brushing my teeth.

It's the emotional attachment or lack of understanding of normal weight fluctuations that can be the problem not the frequency of weighing.

Agree! Feedback are signals of what you are doing. Like feelings are signals about what is happening with you, not a testament to who you are.

As many above posters, I weigh myself daily to keep myself accountable to what I eat. If there are errors in intake and honesty, it's easier to adjust this with a weigh-in that is more often than seldom, in my opinion. I recently discovered that I had wrongly calculated intake of rice and pasta due to a misunderstanding (favourable direction).

Thx to above poster about myotape, that sounded very interesting.

Also take into account that scales are different and scales can be incorrect. They are only a tool to see your trend. Best thing would be to test your weight with same clothes, time of day on other scales too.

I recently tested the scale at my gym and discovered to my horror that my bathroom scale was lying to me, 2 kg (4 lbs) too little.
The new digital scale is very inconsistent. I weighed myself right out of bed first. But after I drank my morning lemon detox tea of 4 dl ( 2 cups) the scale correctly adjusted my weight up. But funnily enough it registered the tea as fat not liquid, my bodyfat jumped up 2%, water content went down.

I agree with many above posters to not only weigh yourself as you prefer, but also to measure your most important places like belly, bust, butt at the same time. Try on clothes you haven't been able to get into. If your weight is the same and you do strength too, measuring and your clothes will tell you the truth.