How often do you weigh in
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I weigh usually once a week, same time same day.... and i only ever use the analog manual scales (where you move the weighed thing in front of you) at the gym, mid afternoon before a workout ... i hardly ever use my home scales - i dont know why but i dont trust them! haha.0
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Daily, first thing after I get up and have been to the bathroom. I can deal with the daily ups and downs, I (don't like but) understand them.. but for me, weighing in once a week would drive me crazy due to potentially retaining water on my weigh in day, having eaten a lot of food the night before, whatever.
Daily keeps me sane, and on track and that's what it's about.0 -
I just do it on bank holidays.....0
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Everyday, my weight fluctuates too much with water retention and if I had a 'heavy' day on my weigh in I would be down hearted.
If I weigh and record every day I can see the trend.0 -
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every morning before my shower. I do not take it to heart though. I have seen as much as a 7lb swing in 24hrs in both directions. Its mostly habit.0
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I weigh myself 1-4 times a day and I officially 'check in' on MFP on the 15th of each month.
That's a bit excessive lol - do you mean a week?!
Weight varies quite a bit day to day due to many factors including water retention, glycogen and what's in your belly at the time of weighing.
Best thing to do is pick a setting and replicate that once a week then record. So for instance a setting would be your living room first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. You then have to replicate that every time you weigh. Ideally weigh without any clothes to get real accurate.
To see accurate trends use something like hack diet.
Good luck.
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I weigh myself daily and log it on fitbit (which I have synced up with trendweight). With that I'm able to see the daily fluctuations to look at what foods to cut down on. I weigh myself first thing in the morning right after using the bathroom.0
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Since starting T25 I've swapped from monthly to weekly (STATurday) and I prefer it, losing weight always motivates me to continue and a month was just too much of a gap.0
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I weigh myself 1-4 times a day and I officially 'check in' on MFP on the 15th of each month.
That's a bit excessive lol - do you mean a week?!
Weight varies quite a bit day to day due to many factors including water retention, glycogen and what's in your belly at the time of weighing.
Best thing to do is pick a setting and replicate that once a week then record. So for instance a setting would be your living room first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. You then have to replicate that every time you weigh. Ideally weigh without any clothes to get real accurate.
To see accurate trends use something like hack diet.
Good luck.
Actually I weigh 1-3 times a day as well. It was a really great way for me to learn the way my body fluctuated throughout the day and to find the most accurate reading. I learned that if I weighed my self even 2 hours earlier every day it would read that I lost no weight or gained water weight, it wouldn't show a single loss, but at my IDEAL weigh time 2 hours later it shows steady decline. I never would have known that if I had randomly picked a weigh in time.
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I used to reply to these with "every day" or " a few times a week". Now...3 times a month probably. That's mostly because I KNOW when I screw up and I know how long it will take to patch it up again, then I weight myself so I don't feel too bad!
But knowing these trends comes from weighing myself a lot at one point.0 -
Once a week.0
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I weigh in everyday at the same time (morning, when I wake up, after bathroom). I like to keep track of the daily fluctuations and see the trend go down overall, otherwise I feel like I wouldn't be getting the full picture.0
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »I weigh daily, record weekly.
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once a week as i find i can get disheartened if i go up and put me in a bad mood all day
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1 or 2 times a month
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Every day, first thing. Log it on MFP, enter it into my Excel spreadsheet, check out the long-term trend and forget about it.0
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It's all personal preference.
I weigh daily. Then I average it weekly. The weekly average helps me see the trend within the daily fluctuations.
See my neat graph:
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When I lived at home it was daily, and probably to an unhealthy extent as I'm likely to freak out if the figures don't tell me what I want. But now I'm at uni it's become more of a case of whenever I go home, which means I have periods of months where I'm not finding out if what I'm doing is working and that's driving me equally crazy.0
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I'm a daily weigher. I log if it goes down. The only reason I weigh so often is because I am still having a block "seeing" the way I look now. To me, I still look like I did when I started, even though I'm 56 pounds lighter now. So I weight daily, which lets me see that I have made progress and it keeps me motivated. Even the fluctuations are okay with me because it's so much less than where I started. Now if only my perception of the reflection in the mirror would catch up with the scale....0
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johnnylakis wrote: »
same hereLiftng4Lis wrote: »I weigh daily, record weekly.
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Once a week when I wake up after using the bathroom 0
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About once per month or so.0
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MsHarryWinston wrote: »I weigh myself 1-4 times a day and I officially 'check in' on MFP on the 15th of each month.
That's a bit excessive lol - do you mean a week?!
Weight varies quite a bit day to day due to many factors including water retention, glycogen and what's in your belly at the time of weighing.
Best thing to do is pick a setting and replicate that once a week then record. So for instance a setting would be your living room first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. You then have to replicate that every time you weigh. Ideally weigh without any clothes to get real accurate.
To see accurate trends use something like hack diet.
Good luck.
Actually I weigh 1-3 times a day as well. It was a really great way for me to learn the way my body fluctuated throughout the day and to find the most accurate reading. I learned that if I weighed my self even 2 hours earlier every day it would read that I lost no weight or gained water weight, it wouldn't show a single loss, but at my IDEAL weigh time 2 hours later it shows steady decline. I never would have known that if I had randomly picked a weigh in time.
I don't get that logic. If the point is to track weight loss, then you have to pick a reference point, pick a setting and replicate over time to see change. It doesn't matter that at some other point you might be 10g lighter, your main interest should be the weight loss amount.
I'm not judging, to each his own, but honestly there are too many factors that change a person's weight every day. Just pick a reference and stick to it...0
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