Weighing myself everyday

Weighing daily isn't a bad habit unless you let the number on the scale bother you. I'm the scientific type so I weigh daily, note the number and go on with my day. I also use a measuring tape every few weeks to gauge progress and put more stock in those numbers than the scale. Body weight fluctuates daily due to water retention, food ate, etc. Just drinking a 16 ounce glass of water makes you weigh one pound more! Also, I lift weights so my weight loss progress has been slow but the inches keep decreasing on the measuring tape so I know I'm making great progress.

I can't weight everyday, it would drive me crazy. If it affects your emotional state then I would work on minimizing to maybe once a week

I dislike weighing myself to the other end of the extreme where I've gone months without knowing. Currently I am trying once aweek or every few days even. My scale is in its box under the sink. I pull it out, quickly check and then put it back. Hope this helps. Want to be friends?

I've actually begun to like weighing daily. I weigh as soon as I wake up before I head to the gym in the mornings.

There's an app called Libra which records your weight loss and plots it on a graph to smooth out the dips and bumps which happen naturally regarding weight fluctuation. It's very handy for seeing what your general trend is and can make weighing in higher than yesterday easier to take.

I've also found I find weighing daily is a neat way to figure out how certain foods or habits impact my weight and water weight. For example, Sunday I ate a whole bunch of desserts and didn't bother counting. Monday and Tuesday I stuck to my regular diet. I went from 130lbs (ish, can't remember) to 128.6lbs this morning. No way in all hell did I burn 4,900cal (the 1.4 difference) between then and now, so it must've been other weight that I dropped - likely, water weight from the carbs in the dessert and other... less pleasant... bodily functions.

One thing I love doing is monitoring my weight multiple times a day after a big occasion with food, such as after Christmas Day. Last year, my weight fluctuated a total of 6 lbs in the two days after Christmas. Crazy to see those numbers, ha ha!

When you look at weighing daily as a game or a scientific-esque experiment, it's easier to remove the emotional attachment you have to the number on the scale. From there, weighing becomes less difficult and less scary and more just another measure by which to track your successes and errors.

Ishii19 wrote: »

Well good luck on breaking the habit - but if you want another option - I use an app called Happyscale. I weigh every day and enter it and the app trends it for me, so even if the recorded weight goes up a random day usually the "predicted" weight continues its downward slope

yeh, I weigh daily and plot the trend too. personally, if I weighed myself once a week and it hadn't changed/had gone up then I'd get discouraged, but weighing myself daily means I know what my daily fluctuations are like. so even if the scale does go up, I know it's just water retention or needing a BM lmao. it's all preference!

if you find that weighing daily discourages you, then do it every 2/3 days or once a week. or maybe try plotting the trend and see if that helps. it means I no longer ~celebrate~ a weight on the scale because a low or high can easily just be a fluctuation. as long as the trend is pointing down, I'm happy.

,amy people measure daily. There is no right or wrong, just be consistent and understand the weaknesses.
Make sure you are consistent, same time, after you have been to the loo, same amount of clothes, before eating next meal etc.

Understand about fluctuations.
If you are unable to deal with fluctuations, which are really just the way it is and natural, then weigh less frequently and use other measures.

You may find it helps to chart it so you cna see the fluctuations.

Id also suggest you also look at how you react to adversity and figure out how you will deal with some of the bumps that are going to happen along the way, so the discouragement doesnt have the impact you are letting it have (notwithstanding its just a natural fluctuation).

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

It's not a horrible habit - it's a great one if you understand what the data are saying. Plot your weight, and keep a 7-10 day moving average. This moving average will give you a trend line that is more an indicator of your "real" weight than any single snapshot in time.

What the scale says on any given day can vary wildly based on a variety of factors - but it mostly comes down to hydration state - if you drink your 8 cups of water a day, you are moving (minimally) 4 lbs of water through your body. Showing a scale weight that is a couple pounds up or down from yesterday's scale weight is a meaningless piece of information on its own.

If you weigh every day, do the data analysis so the variations don't freak you out. If you don't want to take the time to do that, then don't weigh every day. Whichever works for you is the right answer ...

If i see the scale I want to weigh myself. Right now I only allow myself to weigh once per week because I get too obssesive about it and my water weight fluctuates too much for a daily weigh to be correct or encouraging. I've even heard some people weigh only once per month so that they remained focused and spend their attention on making improvements. Friend or Foe? In my opinion you shouldn't attach too much emotion to the scale, you are bound to experience uneeded frustration and wasted energy. Good luck!

kn7hqq wrote: »

I too weigh everyday at the same time, I want to know that I'm on the right track, if I gain then there is something that I'm not doing right and I take a look at my previous eating diary. I feel so good even if I'm down one ounce that's better than gaining.

see this isn't a good attitude to have! you can have a "perfect" day and still gain because of normal fluctuations so getting down about it is only going to cause problems. it can lead to restricting your intake even more when you were doing fine already, and make it more likely that you'll stop because you aren't getting immediate results every day.

if you did have a bad day, it would take 2-3 days for your weight to settle before you'd even know if you've put on fat and not just water/food weight.

I weighed myself as little as I could get away with because my emotions ride the numbers. But I just finished weighing myself daily for about four weeks to get to the bottom of my fluctuating weight. I've confirmed that I lose on a monthly cycle that is closely tied to my...cycle. I have the Fitbit Aria that posts the numbers as soon as I stand on the scale, and I have it synced with WeightGrapher. The trend line is much more satisfying to me. WeightGrapher estimates I will have reached my goal weight by May of this year.



My weight can fluctuate up to three pounds in a single day. An odd consequence of the Aria and MFP is that MFP will report the loss but not the gain (thanks, pal!). My friends congratulate me nearly every day as MFP reports another pound lost. But...it's the same pound. Up, down. Up, down.

This little project has confirmed to me not to take the scale too seriously. I focus on behavior change instead.

I weigh everyday it keeps me motivated even if I don't lose it. Ales me try even harder.