What is your weigh-in day?

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  • 83GRLONFIRE
    83GRLONFIRE Posts: 7 Member
    I weigh in every Sunday...I used to hop on the scale every morning...wondering if I should start again for accountablity/motivation.. or stick to every Sunday morning ?
  • revmod
    revmod Posts: 3 Member
    Psychologically, different things are going to work for different people. For me, I don't weigh in every day, because I know the daily changes I might be seeing fall well within the margin of error for the device. Once a week seems like plenty to prove to myself that the process is working. Even with that, I'm not going to panic if one Saturday morning I show myself a few ounces heavier. It would take a couple of those in a row before I reevaluate my plan.
  • clubbybear
    clubbybear Posts: 30 Member
    I weight almost every day for fun on our bath scale, but only weigh every Saturday on my Wii balance board which I then use to update the weight here. I picked Saturday so if I want to eat a little extra on the weekend, I have 5 days, (Monday-Friday), to recoup. It's worked so far.
  • lwynd002
    lwynd002 Posts: 115 Member
    I weigh everyday, but I log Saturday morning's weight.
  • shreddedtrooper
    shreddedtrooper Posts: 107 Member
    Everyday

    Knowing and being in tune with metabolic rate and predicting increases.
    Another example why daily may be opportune. Consumed 4700 yesterday and woke up 1# heavier. Anticipated 2-3.
    This tells me getting depleted and more structured refeeds and nearing peak before lean bulk.
    Daily can often catch more but nothing wrong with weekly as well, just use it to a benefit :)

  • rennid
    rennid Posts: 3
    I'm a Monday weigh in kinda girk
  • hannahhixson
    hannahhixson Posts: 2 Member
    When i started my diet i weighed everyday. Eventually i stopped feeling motivated. I eat healthy every day now since February 23rd. I got MFP last Thursday. I weighed February 23rd and i was at 156.0lbs. Two weeks later, Sunday morning i weighed and had lost 8lbs. That's what motivates me. I've never seen 140 something.
  • kristen6350
    kristen6350 Posts: 1,094 Member
    Whenever I feel like bringin' out the scale and jumpin' on. Typically 2-3 times a week, but there's no rhyme or reason. Just do checks. Main log day is Monday, but you better believe if I have a good day Thursday, I'll log it too!
  • Mistizoom
    Mistizoom Posts: 578 Member
    Every day.
  • starfish235
    starfish235 Posts: 129 Member
    I weigh at night be for my bath. I know I generally have a 2 lb drop over night. I then weigh again in the morning. I I have been doing it this way since I was a teen. I post the weight I have had for a couple or 3 days. It takes 2 days for the body to show what you did to your self by eating that cake or doing well.
  • raejeanr
    raejeanr Posts: 2 Member
    I weigh myself daily, but on Sundays my mom and I share our weights to motivate us and encourage each other.
  • ScorpioJack_91
    ScorpioJack_91 Posts: 5,241 Member
    starfish235 wrote: »
    I weigh at night be for my bath. I know I generally have a 2 lb drop over night. I then weigh again in the morning. I I have been doing it this way since I was a teen. I post the weight I have had for a couple or 3 days. It takes 2 days for the body to show what you did to your self by eating that cake or doing well.

    Good idea
  • ShanitaMarie85
    ShanitaMarie85 Posts: 44 Member
    I do Wednesdays and Sundays
  • ycel0612
    ycel0612 Posts: 57 Member
    I weigh every friday
  • 100percentcom
    100percentcom Posts: 2
    I weigh in everyday also! As soon as I get up before anything!
  • debtiffany_
    debtiffany_ Posts: 19 Member
    I weigh in every day. However, I only post my weight when I lose, cause that's the kind of gal I am.
  • alyssaburgess96
    alyssaburgess96 Posts: 6 Member
    Is it good to weigh yourself everyday or just once a week I read online it's not good to weigh yourself everyday but I could be wrong?
  • lschifko314
    lschifko314 Posts: 25 Member
    Wednesday morning i seem to be the lightest but sometimes i weigh in saturday morning too
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    snickerscharlie wrote: »
    IXChicharitoXI wrote: »
    I weigh myself everyday. The app I use averages my week and I go with that. My issue with once a week weigh-ins is that I can manipulate the scale and almost cheat it. I rather see my daily fluctuation.

    How can you manipulate the scale, and why would you want to? Isn't that only cheating yourself? ;)

    When I wrestled I did this all the time to make weight...you dehydrate. Another trick is to just radically cut carbs for a few days and dump a bunch of water weight. Then hopefully you end up on the mat with someone who is actually in the lower weight class when you're about 10 Lbs heavier and then you destroy their world...but then sometimes the opposite happens as well.
  • ScorpioJack_91
    ScorpioJack_91 Posts: 5,241 Member
    I weigh usually on a Monday but I should start everyday just to see the fluctuations.
  • KiwiAlexP
    KiwiAlexP Posts: 186 Member
    It was Monday mornings but we're doing a Biggest Loser challenge at work so currently Thursdays
  • KayRisTee
    KayRisTee Posts: 31 Member
    I weigh myself everyday. I find this keeps me on track better than not. But the only weight I log is from Sunday, my weigh-in day.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    I weigh every day, then log it into Happy Scale and an Excel sheet, and Wednesday's weight gets logged to MFP
  • paullynch1
    paullynch1 Posts: 3 Member
    On a Sunday for records. Wake up, go to the toilet then weigh. Any other time I feel like without recording it.
  • YanskaNY
    YanskaNY Posts: 103 Member
    Thanks everyone! I love all of your feedback.
  • sarabclaypole
    sarabclaypole Posts: 74 Member
    I get scanned on tanita scales every Sunday around 10am in the same place before a workout
  • beamer0821
    beamer0821 Posts: 488 Member
    monday mornings keeps me in check over the weekend.
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    Friday mornings
  • mjc1409
    mjc1409 Posts: 36 Member
    I weigh myself most days, but I log my weight on Weigh-In Wednesday, because it's fun to say!
  • gobonas99
    gobonas99 Posts: 1,049 Member
    I weigh AND log every day. By weighing only once a week, you lose over 85% of your data points. As long as you understand that your weight WILL fluctuate, both up and down, weighing daily and looking at the overall trend is the best option.

    I log my weight in the fitbit app (free account, I don't even have a fitbit), which I have linked to trendweight.com - this is my graph for the past 6 months (been doing this for 2 years now, but you can see better on the snipped graph) - the thin gray line are my actual daily weigh-ins...the thick red line is my weight trend. Doing this has helped me see that I usually have 2-3 weeks where I don't lose, and may even gain...and then 1-2 weeks where I lose a lot...but the overall trend is still down, regardless of what my daily weight looks like....the spike at the end is because we were on vacation from Feb 13th through the 22nd, and I didn't log my foods at all (and didn't eat very healthy...plus drank 3 bottles of wine in 10 days, whereas I normally don't drink at all), and only worked out once.

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