How often do you weigh yourself?

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  • NoelFigart1
    NoelFigart1 Posts: 1,276 Member
    Daily. I track it on this gut-wrenchingly complicated spreadsheet. (I wouldn't bother, but I teach Excel, and practicing data analysis scenarios is important to keeping my skill sharp).
  • Woodspoon
    Woodspoon Posts: 223 Member
    _SandShoveller_ wrote: »
    Weigh Daily - track weekly average changes to spread out fluctuation impact.

    ^^ this
    Weigh and log daily but track weekly, because weight fluctuates during the week
  • MelanieRBrace
    MelanieRBrace Posts: 245 Member
    Daily - keeps me accountable.
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    I weight once weekly at the same time of day
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    I've been diagnosed with ocd for years. It could easily become an obsession if I weighed myself daily. I don't know. I am the type of person who gets down if I don't see a loss each month. I am 140lb 163cm/5'4. I still have some weight to lose.
  • gringo43
    gringo43 Posts: 16 Member
    I weigh daily because of doctors orders...need to keep track of fluid changes.(heart failure)
  • Angierae75
    Angierae75 Posts: 417 Member
    Weekly, although since I've noticed that my weight drops go in two week cycles anyway, I am thinking about switching to every other week.

  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Until recently weekly because my team insists I do. I do not like my mood following the scale up and down. But I want to get to the bottom of my fluctuations, so I've been logging daily for a few days now.

    Someone here suggested http://www.weightgrapher.com/graphs/ and I love it.

    It smooths out the readings and shows the trend. Much more satisfying.
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    Every day, first thing in the morning. Trendweight.com calculates an exponentially smoothed moving average for me. The principle behind the average is explained by John Walker in the chapter "Signal and Noise" in his free online book The Hacker's Diet (google it if you want to read it).

    I also weigh before and after a major cardio workout (more than 45 minutes running or 90 minutes biking), to keep tabs on whether I'm hydrating enough.
  • kclay1021
    kclay1021 Posts: 56 Member
    I don't do it daily or monthly. . . just when I feel like I can. I am a reformed ED sufferer and have gone in waves. When I was deep in my ED I would weigh every few HOURS. Although I'd consider myself recovered, I went through a period of time a couple months ago where I would weigh myself daily and my mood for the day would hinge solely on what the scale said. Now that I am consistently eating healthy, doing strength training and cardio in reasonable amounts I don't EVER weigh more than once a week to avoid being obsessed - but that's me - clearly I previously had an unhealthy relationship with the scale though.
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    kclay1021 wrote: »
    I don't do it daily or monthly. . . just when I feel like I can. I am a reformed ED sufferer and have gone in waves. When I was deep in my ED I would weigh every few HOURS. Although I'd consider myself recovered, I went through a period of time a couple months ago where I would weigh myself daily and my mood for the day would hinge solely on what the scale said. Now that I am consistently eating healthy, doing strength training and cardio in reasonable amounts I don't EVER weigh more than once a week to avoid being obsessed - but that's me - clearly I previously had an unhealthy relationship with the scale though.

    Good on you.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Daily, recording it into HappyScale (as I just realized I forgot to do the past three days!) and recording my Wednesday weight to MFP
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    randomtai wrote: »
    rossinator63 wrote: »
    Daily. My personal trainer also recommends it daily. How else to you create the association of what and how much you eat and exercise with whether it results in weight gain or loss. Weighing in once a month is like driving your car only looking in the rear view mirror.

    Because weight loss is not linear and daily fluctuations sometimes mess with a person's head. As long as there is a consistent trend how often you weigh in is inconsequential.

    but what if you happen to be on an upward fluctuation that one time you weigh yourself in the month? If I had a water/poop weight fluctuation of several pounds up THAT would mess with my head more than daily weighing which would give you more of the ability to see an actual trend than weighing yourself only 12 times in a year. I do it more on a weekly basis, myself. Unless i'm curious, then it might be more often
  • Ribena145
    Ribena145 Posts: 201 Member
    Luckie519 wrote: »
    I also weigh in daily, but I only log once a week. I do it to see how my activity and what I ate during the previous day effects my weight. Obviously, if I put on 2 lbs, I need to change something from the previous day.

    Ditto for me....
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    I was a daily. I got irritated. Now I do it once a week (not logged) to see if I am on track, but write down measurements and weight every two weeks.

    I had to put the scales up high on a shelf!
  • mightygirlruns
    mightygirlruns Posts: 18
    Monthly. I'm focused on consistency with my eating and exercise right now and trying not to focus on the scale.
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    edited December 2014
    gabrielleelliott90 wrote: »
    I've been diagnosed with ocd for years. It could easily become an obsession if I weighed myself daily. I don't know. I am the type of person who gets down if I don't see a loss each month. I am 140lb 163cm/5'4. I still have some weight to lose.

    Then do it weekly or get an app like libra so it does all the hard work and records what it is which is just data. Understanding the data is the key to prevent it from annoying you. If you accept fluctuations and dont get freaked by them then its possible to weigh daily. If you dont know what the figures mean, then its possible you will get freaked and not really appreciate the quirks that go with daily weighing, which would make a difference to your understanding. there would be little sense in getting down over a 2lb weight gain which just happened to be water retention and a daily fluctuation.

    If you diet properly with a sufficient accurate deficit, you hot calorie targets, weigh your food and do the exercise you have in your plan then you will see a loss each month. Pick the method that best suits your needs, there is no right or wrong.
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    gabrielleelliott90 wrote: »
    Just wondering. I am thinking of only weighing myself once a month, straight after that thing has ended (sorry, tmi)- that's the only time I get a loss.....the rest I gain waterweight

    I weigh myself once a month. I hate seeing the scale bounce. But I log daily.
  • skinny0000
    skinny0000 Posts: 90 Member
    once a week.
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