Weighing myself everyday

I, too, weigh myself every day. However, for health reasons, I am on a low fat, low sodium diet so the scale is my friend. Since salt is my poison, If I gain 2 lbs in one day, it means I had too much salt and I need to cut back on the salt. This diet has helped me lose at least a pound a week so far. So, weighing yourself daily is not a bad thing. It can be used to your advantage.

I like weighing weekly...I used to weigh whenever I wanted to, often more than once a day, but I decide to make myself try something new. I made only weighing weekly one of my weight loss goals and that helped me change my attitude about it very quickly. Here's why I've grown to like it better:
1. I feel it's a more realistic habit to form long term
2. I think more about how I feel, how my clothes fit, what I see in the mirror and just feel more tuned in to all of those changes rather than what the scale says.
3. I feel more motivated...every weekly weigh-in is like a finishline that I'm working towards.
4. Whatever happens on the scale that week fuels me...I feel motivated to push myself harder, or I feel thrilled at a success and want to keep it going.

It look a few weeks for me to lose the itch to weigh, but I haven't looked back since.

blondieluv2shop wrote: »

miqisha wrote: »

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

Exactly! I'm working on it!

Also have someone take the scale and only return once a week. Choose a designated day and keep at it.

blondieluv2shop wrote: »

judi43 wrote: »

I, too, weigh myself every day. However, for health reasons, I am on a low fat, low sodium diet so the scale is my friend. Since salt is my poison, If I gain 2 lbs in one day, it means I had too much salt and I need to cut back on the salt. This diet has helped me lose at least a pound a week so far. So, weighing yourself daily is not a bad thing. It can be used to your advantage.

So I'm learning. I just have to learn to adjust my additude with the daily weighing.

Good idea! Before stepping on the scale, remind yourself that the number simply tells you the weight of your body, NOT the value of your self-worth, nor should it influence your mood for the day! Just practice. You'll get there.

SkinnyBubbaGaar wrote: »

It's all about the moving average and, if you can look at the scale readings as simply more data, then I think the daily weighing actually works out best. Here's another site that helps track that info... www.weightchart.com .

I use that one and like to weigh in daily. Don't let yourself get discouraged about the days where the number is higher than the previous day, that is normal as you will see fluctuations daily with water weight and whether or not you've had a BM resently.

As long as the moving average continues to trend downward, you are in good shape.

Good luck!

Thanks!

Recently got Withings and do my weight and BF% every day. I love seeing how my prior day nutrition and exercise decisions affect my weight the following day. I used to weigh myself once per week, and then once per month, since I wasn't see the progress I wanted. Now that I am weighing everyday, I actually don't dwell on "the scale" anymore. As many people do, my real measurement is how my clothing fits. I have clothes for current weight, and clothes I used to fit in. When I can fit in those clothes again, I know I have reached my true goal.