Daily Weighing?

I check weight twice a day. In the morning and when I get home from work. It usually fluctuates half a pound

Phrick wrote: »

I weigh pretty much daily, but then I don't have a "problem" with it. I want the data. I want see and learn to understand the fluctuations and be able to correlate them with previous days' sodium intake or exercise levels, etc. It's only a problem if you can't understand and work with seeing daily fluctuations, otherwise "only weigh once a week" is just a SUGGESTION and one you don't HAVE to follow.

THIS. Nothing wrong with weighing daily.

Nope, I'm weighing once a month. I want to actually seem some change when I weigh.

Whenever I have weighed daily it became a negative obsession with the number on the scale. I am more positive if my focus is on my overall health and fitness level. Weighing once a week is enough information for me.

If you understand that your weight is going to fluctuate from day to day...sometimes substantially...and that doesn't bother you, then there's nothing wrong with daily weigh ins.

I don't weigh in daily, but I do weigh in about 3-4 days per week just for data points and trend analysis. That said, I understand natural body weight fluctuations and they don't bother me. I understand that while the scale told me I was 190 on Monday morning (after a weeks long vacation) that I didn't actually gain 8-10 Lbs of fat (my maintenance weight is around 180 - 182ish)...because math is your friend and mathematically, that's pretty much impossible. I understand that I did indulge more than usual and thus have more waste in my system...plus I ate out a lot and my sodium intake was higher than usual...thus fluid retention...to boot, I ate more carbs than usual which also cause fluid retention.

These things do not bother me...I don't get all stressed out an manic about it...I don't go on some crazy exercise binge or crash diet for a week...I just get back to my usual and voila...I'm back down to 183 as of this morning.

I don't weigh every day -- about twice a week or so. If I have a cheat day or a week-end that I went over, I can't see weighing myself on Monday morning and then getting all depressed about it. I usually weigh mid-week and end of the week to see if the current weight is holding.

It's so easy to forget that when you are replacing fat with muscle, you are replacing flab with dense material. It weighs a bit more and takes up a bit less space. It can take awhile to see FAT LOSS on the scale. I don't care about the scale nearly as much as I care about getting into the next size down. And I've been known to do THAT with little indication from the scale that it should be happening! So I always keep the next size down handy to try and squeeze into periodically. I do weigh daily, but I ONLY LOG LOSSES. What I need to see is PROGRESS, not FLUCTUATIONS (due to what I just ate, my cycle, or one bad day). So when I see a number that's less than I've seen before, I log THAT as REAL loss, and watch my little line go DOWN (not UP and DOWN). But stepping on the scale once a day, even seeing a bit of a gain for whatever reason, is a really good reminder that I need to be MINDFUL of what I'm eating and that not being so WILL cost me!

Weighing daily keeps me on track.

I like weighing daily or at least a few times a week. I like lots of data and stats, but it definitely wouldn't be advisable for someone who worries about the daily fluctuations that are inevitable.

You could weigh daily on a wifi scale and not look at the display. Use trendweight.com to just check in on the trend occasionally or even just later in the day when you're feeling more analytical and less vulnerable.

I didn't like what I saw on the scale this morning but then when I checked trendweight I realized I was doing ok. I want to start with the 'blind weighing'. Maybe tomorrow.