Do you weight yourself?

Sounds like a good plan to me. Lots of people on here just go off of measurements. The scale can definitely be deceiving.

No I don't anymore...I think it can be very discouraging when you feel like you're working hard and then you step on and hardly see a difference.

The numbers never go down fast enough, do they? There's a lot of people who go by how they look as far as deciding when to stop dieting. And, a lot of them have rocking avatar pics (a bunch of recompers in this category). If you need a more objective measurement, fitting into a smaller size feels great (and can can give you more choices and be easier on the wallet).

I think some of it has to do with personality. I need to be obsessive to lose weight, so I'll weigh myself up to 5 times a day on insecure days, and measure myself a few times. For me it's having more data points and seeing trends that makes it easier to not get upset over the numbers ie. my weight doesn't go down as much the week before my period, but goes down more when I start, I tend to be 2-3 pounds heavier before bed than first thing in the morning, my measurements are bigger after exercise, and I can gain 2 inches in my my waist just from bloating (easy come, easy go).

I really enjoy the scale victories, though. I've figured out all the 10% weight losses down to my goal (there's health advantages to losing 10% of original weight even if you aren't at goal weight yet). I consider every 5 pounds a victory. I'm about to hit 100 pounds (20 before joining MFP), 10 pounds in December, just went under 200 pounds for Christmas, and have almost lost 1/3 my original body weight. Seeing that weight loss is accountabilty, motivation, and a way of knowing how far you've come (even if sometimes it's just cyclical water weight).

The best approach to losing fat is what works for you. Congratulations on deciding to make healthy changes in your life, and best of luck to you

All good plans. This is another case of "know thyself" (like keeping your favorite junk food in the house or not). I weigh daily for the most part. I am at maintenance, but I also weighed daily when I was losing. I was starting diet/nutrition from scratch, then, and weighing daily was good information for me. I could see what a sushi (soy sauce) dinner did for the scale. I could see what ovulation did (that was a surprise). I could see what PMS and ToM did...
Now, in maintenance, weighing daily lets me see if my maintenance strategies are working. When the scale goes up a few and stays there, then I look at how I'm eating. If it goes down and stays there, I look at how I'm eating. Data. Data. Data.

I weigh myself once a week. It's nice to track the progress. Any more often than that and it can be misleading (for me anyway). How my clothes fit seems to be the best way to measure progress.

I do but not very often. Maybe once a month.

There's an old saying "what gets measured gets done" and I believe it. I don't think it matters, in this case, weather you're measuring your body size or your weight but I do think it's important to have some data to measure. I find weighing once a week, and recording it, helps keep me motivated. If I have a week where the needle isn't moving in the right direction it just pushes me to be more digilent.

seltzermint wrote: »

This may work great for some, but for me it's all about the numbers whether weighing daily or tracking every bite of food. For many years I refused to even own a scale & always went off how I felt, and unfortunately (?) I felt pretty great and could still stuff myself into the same clothing even though I gained a LOT of weight. So I guess I am sort of the opposite, I think of the number on the scale as a reassuring friend.

^^this
I lost 60 pounds in 2011 and decided to stop logging calories.
2013 I stopped weighing myself.
I found out that I can gain 15 pounds and still fit into my clothes comfortably.
I need to weigh every day, or every week at least.

tuesday and fridays are my days, they work perfect for me

I weigh myself everyday to stay in check. I am not losing as quickly as I want to but I am losing inches so it is all good. I am only a few months into this so maybe down the road I will weigh and measure less often.

I grew up wrestling and always weighing in everyday, after 25 years away from the sport I haven't been able to break that habit. Its second nature for me.

*weigh

I've decided not to weigh myself more than once every 2 weeks, if not less. I think the best motivation is when a friend/acquaintance asks me if I've lost weight. Sometimes, the number on the scale tells me that I weigh the same, but this helps me know that my weight is shifting and that exercise and diet are working in their own way! The best thing to focus on is how you feel about yourself and how you feel physically.

I recently made the decision to stop weighing myself too. I found myself getting too obsessed with the number and getting disappointed when it didn't go the way I wanted it too. My only goals right now are to eat healthy, exercise regularly, log everything, and occasionally do measurements. I'm trying to focus on how I'm feeling rather than seeing a specific number on the scale and I'm feeling a lot better.