How often do you step on the scale?

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  • AbsoluteTara79
    AbsoluteTara79 Posts: 266 Member
    I weigh myself every morning on my Aria and it just syncs to MFP. I think the daily weighing helps me understand and anticipate fluctuations so I don't freak out about it. The only thing that is annoying is that on my feed it will say "lost .8 pounds" when really, I maybe just went up on water weight one day and then dropped back again. I wish there was an option to track all weights, but only "announce" new lows. Because, it probably looks like I'm losing weight much faster than I actually am.
  • Amanda4change
    Amanda4change Posts: 620 Member
    I weigh every morning and log it in my happy scale app (which givese my trend). I log my weight on MFP only once a week.
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,473 Member
    kristydi wrote: »
    It's funny how different people are. I get much more worked up about the numbers when I only weigh weekly. If I don't see any change, or enough change after a whole week it bothers me. Only having that 1 number gives it more importance in my mind, while having lots of data points makes it easier for me to not worry about the occasional higher number.

    Anyway, there's no 1 right way. Find what works best for you and go with it.

    Yes, that's what I find! The daily weights are just numbers - I don't expect to lose a significant amount of weight every day, and I do expect my weight to go up and down. But if I weigh weekly I expect a loss every week, and am disappointed if not, even though that's unrealistic.

    It's interesting because I'm doing two lots of weighing at the moment. I weigh every day at home. And I weigh every week at a weight loss class. I find myself getting worried about weighing in at the weekly class, in a way that I don't with my daily weigh-in.

  • Chellybell13
    Chellybell13 Posts: 54 Member
    1-2 times a week. I only record it once a week though.
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,899 Member
    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?

    It's just data. I weigh daily, unless I forget/am out of town or something. I don't obsess over it. I step on, step off, record the number in my weight tracking app and move on. I only put losses into MFP though.

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  • TheSurge0n
    TheSurge0n Posts: 113 Member
    Every morning before getting ready for work.
  • lavendah
    lavendah Posts: 126 Member
    Usually,one to two times a day.But sometimes it can go upto 5-6 times a day because I have severe obsessive compulsive tendencies :s
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    Every morning when I get out of the shower.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    every morning after going to the bathroom
  • dandayatra
    dandayatra Posts: 53
    once a week
  • jtipton58
    jtipton58 Posts: 5 Member
    Every day, that is what it takes to keep me motivated and on track. Loseing weight and maintaining gets harder as you age.
  • HanamiDango
    HanamiDango Posts: 456 Member
    I am another daily tracker, who tracks it via a trend app and I also average out my weekly weight. All about the numbers, I mean, math is useful.
  • charmmeth
    charmmeth Posts: 936 Member
    Daily, in the mornings if I have access to scales, because like others I find it fascinating to see how my weight changes, and to know that I can gain a kg in a day sometimes for no apparent reason. I also often look in the evenings but don't log that measurement, as i also find it gives me a sense of what things might look like the next day.
  • huango
    huango Posts: 1,007 Member
    I know there a lot of us out there like @PoisonIvy088‌.
    I weigh myself about once a month. That scale does not reflect how much muscle I've gained, or how many inches I've lost.

    Also, for me, the scale number is a catch-22.
    - if it's low, then yay, I get to eat a bit more, relax my eating.
    - if it's high, then I get discouraged and turn to food.

    So it's just best for me to stay off the scale, and go with measurements and progress pictures.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    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?

    Daily - it's just data and the more data you have the more accuracy and knowledge you have.
    It doesn't have any emotional attachment to me at all.
  • jaymikhail69
    jaymikhail69 Posts: 40 Member
    sijomial wrote: »
    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?

    Daily - it's just data and the more data you have the more accuracy and knowledge you have.
    It doesn't have any emotional attachment to me at all.

    Well It sounds like I should start daily and track the progress overall; though only logging it once a week.
  • CA_Underdog
    CA_Underdog Posts: 733 Member
    edited February 2015
    jaymikhail69 wrote: »
    How often do you check your weight to keep yourself motivated? Once a week? Month?

    Daily for the data! A recent study by Northwestern University says more frequent weigh-ins are correlated with higher weight-loss success. And it's convenient for me that way--I like to see trends. That, of course, assumes you're not the sort who stresses over such things. :)

  • rdfaye
    rdfaye Posts: 39 Member
    I weigh daily, because I will never remember something I only have to do once a week. And if I don't weigh for a couple of days, suddenly it's been a couple of weeks and I'm way off my goals. It is not stressful for me, and it keeps me pointed in the right direction.
  • angelpearls
    angelpearls Posts: 17 Member
    Daily, it helps me be accountable and gauge is what I'm doing is working.
  • dinosaurparty
    dinosaurparty Posts: 185 Member
    I get pretty obsessed with that sort of thing, so I try not to weigh myself more than once a week ideally. It can be really hard to stick to that though. I went through a really unhealthy phase where I'd get on the scale like two or three times a day and be super hard on myself when the weight would go up through the day, even though it was just water and food weight that would be gone the next morning. I don't take my measurements for the same reason, haha.

    I'm in it more for the physical changes anyway, so I think it's more important to notice changes in the mirror than on the scale. For me at least :)
  • kristinegift
    kristinegift Posts: 2,406 Member
    I record once or twice a week (usually a Monday and/or Thursday, because I like those days), but step on the scale daily. I especially love to step on the scale before and after my long run. Today I ran 12 miles and was 3 pounds lighter at the end of it! I never record that weight though, because it's not accurate to how much I weigh most of the time.
  • IsMeliFitYet
    IsMeliFitYet Posts: 10 Member
    Monday mornings.
  • scookbey
    scookbey Posts: 84 Member
    Once a week, around the same time on the same day..that is the most accurate weight. So if you start off weighing yourself at 10am on Thursday Morning, do this every Thursday at 10am.
  • cnkihm
    cnkihm Posts: 10 Member
    Usually several times a day: once in the morning to see what my "base" weight for the day is, and throughout the day (especially after meals or bathroom breaks) to get a sense of how much my weight can fluctuate.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    To those of you who "record" your weight every week, do you still record it if you've lost nothing?
  • scookbey
    scookbey Posts: 84 Member
    I don't...if I don't lose any weight then I will wait to see if I lost any weight the next week-on the same day around the same time. If I have gained weight, I painfully enter it into MFP.
  • stevesgirl824
    stevesgirl824 Posts: 74 Member
    edited February 2015
    dinosaurparty wrote: »
    I get pretty obsessed with that sort of thing, so I try not to weigh myself more than once a week ideally. It can be really hard to stick to that though. I went through a really unhealthy phase where I'd get on the scale like two or three times a day and be super hard on myself when the weight would go up through the day, even though it was just water and food weight that would be gone the next morning. I don't take my measurements for the same reason, haha.

    I'm in it more for the physical changes anyway, so I think it's more important to notice changes in the mirror than on the scale. For me at least :)

    Me too! Clothes and measurement tape are the better indicators for me. I get scale obsessed too easily, so I am only weighing myself once a month.
  • krissyreminisce
    krissyreminisce Posts: 284 Member
    I weigh myself and record the weight on Sunday mornings. I used to do it daily and it really did bad things for my psyche.
  • smalltown_princess
    smalltown_princess Posts: 155 Member
    I know I shouldn't but I weigh myself 1x a day. I can't help it, it's like cutting and I can't stop
  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,722 Member
    More when I am losing weight .... About once a month when maintaining
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