How often do you step on the scale?

Once per day. First thing in the morning. But it's not about motivation, it's only about data.

i was doing it every Friday morning but have changed to every 10 days now. I don't know why but when I was doing it weekly didn't seem to move much where doing it every 10, I can see the weight going down.

daily. sometimes twice a day! it is actually alittle obsessive but i cant seem to stop. i record only on wednesdays though

Officially once a week, but I do also step on it at random times during the week

I do better when I weigh every morning. Keeps me on track and I like the weight tracker app that graphs all my weights and shows me a trend line.

Daily, however I'm going to try and hold off and see what happens after about a week.

I usually weigh 2-3 days a week and log once. Sometimes I only weigh once and that's my weigh in day. The number will drive you insane...

There's no point in weighing daily unless you're using an app like trend weight (IMO). Your weight is going to fluctuate due to what you eat, salt intake, water and waste retention, medication (which threw me for a loop recently), etc. Pick a day and make it your weigh in day. Put the scale away so you don't step on it every day. Just isn't worth it to get yourself worked up over it when - if you're eating and exercising properly - you're going to lose.

weight fluctuates daily for reasons other than fat loss (water weight, how much food is in your bowels, and many other reasons).

I weigh daily and my weight can go up by several pounds in one day only to go down by several the next (or maybe 2 days later). Although I'm sure there are medical / scientific reasons for the fluctuations to my eyes it follows no logic.

I generally weigh myself daily.

If I weighed weekly it could be a 'higher' day or it could be a 'lower' day and I wouldn't know. I could be happy or disappointed for all the wrong reasons.

If you are not going to get stressed by the day to day fluctuations then I would recommend weighing daily as it is the most accurate method. Also now if I go a few days without weighing and then I get on the scale I know from a lot of experience not to take the number to be too exact.

this next bit is just how I like to do it...
I enter my weight each day into the withings website (would love to buy their scale so that it is entered automatically but haven't got the funds). My withings account is synced with MFP so that MFP is automatically updated each day. I also have some apps which sync automatically with Withings ('libra' and 'Monitor your Weight') The apps display my weight data in different graphs forms (actually I just like seeing that line go down in lots of different ways). So when I enter the data into withings it automatically updates MFP and my 2 apps. the last thing I did was tell MFP not to post my weight losses onto my feed. since my weight goes down every second day or so, I felt like I was being congratulated for the same few pounds several times over.

I weigh daily, then record the average weight of each week on mfp.

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Everyday, first thing in the morning. It is an obsession.

jaymikhail69 wrote: »

So I see most people choose to track it daily. But if the body fluctuates daily, why track it daily? Is it just compulsive?

Its precisely because the body fluctuates daily. You average out all the amounts and you get a (reasonably) accurate number. If you just do it once, then you won't know if its above or below your current 'average.'

If you average out 7 consecutive day's values then you get a weekly average, Once you have a weekly average for several weeks in a row then you know how much you are losing per week. Its useful to know about how much you are losing per week so that you can know whether you're eating the right amount of calories.

Also if you weigh yourself weekly, and it happens to be an 'above average' day, then you can feel disappointed because you might think you haven't lost anything that week. eg if you are losing 2 lbs per week but you happen to weigh on a day that you are 2 lbs above average then you will think you haven't lost.

Obviously how often you weigh yourself won't speed up or slow down your weight loss. So it doesn't really matter and is just a question of what works best for you and what will help you stay on the wagon

Once a month when my trainer takes my meassurements. Weight loss kind of takes a backseat to my life. I focus on other things.

I weigh daily, but only log when it's a lower number whether that's the next day or 10 days from now. That works for me. It might not work for someone else. But I always say, "Don't let the number hurt your soul," meaning don't let it bother you regardless of whether it's up, down or the same. As others have mentioned weight can fluctuate (madly for some!)