How often should i weigh?

I think weighing daily can be very discouraging. I believe to be truly successful in a weight loss journey you have to be fixated on goals not numbers on the scales. I have been on this journey too many times. Every other time I have always been fixated on the scale and the my discouragement was always high. This time I am setting monthly goals of 8 pounds hoping to average 2 pounds a week. I have found this much more encouraging. I am at week 7 and am down 19 pounds. There was a week and a half where I hovered at the same weight. I have felt much more successful not worrying about the scale.

It's definitely personal preference. Some people like to weigh once a week, some once a day. I'm somewhere in between. I don't actually remember to weigh daily, but I like to weigh daily. I use a separate app to track weight, and I log my weight every time I weigh. It shows a linear trend, and I actually like more data points. I know that it's going to fluctuate, so the pound or two up or down doesn't phase me. What I like to see is the trend over, say, a month. If it's going down, I'm happy. I think once a week can be discouraging (personally), because I might happen to weigh on one of those "up" days, and then miss seeing that the next day I'm back down. So for me, I'd rather either weigh daily or just monthly. If the daily fluctuations get you down, weighing daily may not be for you.

Might be a better question for the general loss forum instead of the success stories forum.