Daily Weighing?

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  • rosebette
    rosebette Posts: 1,660 Member
    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.
  • girlviernes
    girlviernes Posts: 2,402 Member
    I weigh daily and find it helpful. Sometimes I predict my weight beforehand based on various factors such as TOM, water intake, exercising recently, which helps to minimize any discouragement.
  • djoalaska
    djoalaska Posts: 3
    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!
  • vamaena
    vamaena Posts: 217 Member
    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 ^ sums it up for me. I want to see those fluctuations to better understand how different foods affect me.

    When I eventually reach my goal I'll probably stop my daily weigh ins and switch to weekly or monthly instead.
  • zeal26
    zeal26 Posts: 602 Member
    Weighing daily keeps me on track.
  • stacyjh1979
    stacyjh1979 Posts: 188 Member
    I weigh daily and I don't plan to stop any time soon. I like to have the info as others have stated. It helps me to see the pattern my body follows and gives me some clue of what to expect...but if I don't get what I expect I don't let it ruin my day either. Your post kinda made me laugh though because a while back I was getting on and off the scale literally 5-10 times just in the morning before work and it would keep giving me different numbers so I did finally have to decide that whatever number it gives me first is it for the day...plus I only record once a week but I can relate to what you mean when you say you tell yourself you won't do it and then do it anyway. Do whatever you are comfortable with, there is no right or wrong.
  • Oneironaut
    Oneironaut Posts: 43 Member
    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.
  • brightsideofpink
    brightsideofpink Posts: 1,018 Member
    I weigh most days just for fun and because I'm constantly curious about how things work. I don't take it seriously and I don't get stressed even if it says 1 lb heavier despite busting my butt the day before. I do weigh once weekly every Monday though and consider that where my responsibility lies. It is the number I log here regardless of its change.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    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.
  • bumblebreezy91
    bumblebreezy91 Posts: 520 Member
    I weigh once each morning. I don't weigh throughout the day, I just pick the same time and situation (morning, after I go to the bathroom, undressed, etc) and weigh myself then. I try not to take little fluctuations seriously. I just keep myself in check better with daily weigh ins rather than weekly ones. It's purely personal.

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