I CANT STAY OFF THE SCALE!!

If you're going to freak out with every little fluctuation, then just stop and hold yourself to a one time a week protocol. Seriously. Just don't do it if it bugs you. Otherwise, don't worry about it. I tend to weigh daily so I can get used to my fluctuations, and if I know I'm eating right, logging properly, and working out, then I know that I'm doing what I need to do....so I don't freak out about the scale showing some water retention or whatever.

BTW - a 2.5 lb gain overnight is typically just water retention and normal fluctuation - you didn't eat enough calories overnight to gain that much

I have the same problem. Every time I'm in the bathroom I want to jump on the scale. I'm thinking about getting rid of it or putting it in the attic. I am lifting heavy weights now so I really shouldn't be going by the scale bc I am gaining muscle even though my waist is decreasing.

I weigh myself every morning. I have tried to only do it once a week, but I can't. I will admit it is a bit of an obsession. I don't think that is a terrible thing, but its probably not good. Heh. Sometimes I weigh myself at varying points in the day to see how my weight fluctuates in conjunction to things like drinking a lot of water, eating salty foods, after a big meal etc. But these are more out of curiosity than anything else. I have learned to NEVER EVER weigh myself when I am at the end of my cycle. Only despair can come of that. Haha.

Jump on the scale as much as you want, its personal. Theres nothing wrong with weighing often as long as you realise its a tool that just gives data out and your body naturally fluctuates through the day. If you understand fluctuations and can deal with it then its just data.

If you are excessive then you will get bored after a while. Daily is fine as long as you are consistent.

If you cnat handle it do it less often at a rate that suits your personality.

Use other measures besides just weight, such as the tape , how your clothes fit or performance measures at the gym. I fin the scale a very useful tool and it motivates me in the way I use it.

For me, the scale and the number it reports to me is not my goal. That seems depressing and somehow empty.

My goals are functional. I want to lose fat so that I can do X, Y and Z. The scale's only real purpose is to benchmark whether my balance of calories in, calories out is correct.

Maybe instead of focusing a number, focus on an accomplishment (or two or three).

Yes! For the last week I have put the scale out of my sight in the cupboard. I have got it out once to weigh though . It will be coming out tomorrow though because its weigh-in day!

I try to stick to once a week - try being the key word. I know that I can get overly worried over nothing. I might appear to be 2lbs heavier from one day to the next, but I know that it's just natural fluctuations. At the same time, I do freak. It's like the rational part of my brain shuts down when I look at the numbers. What I did was to remove the scale from the bathroom. When I didn't see every time I stepped in there, slowly the urge subsided. I still cheat from time to time on the whole only once a week thing, but I do so a lot less often when the trigger, this being the scale, isn't so readily available and in sight.

I weigh in every morning first thing. I use an app called Happy Scale to log the daily weigh ins, which helps smooth over fluctuations. I went up almost a full pound this morning but no sweat - app still shows I have a downward trend so I'm on track and will keep eating well & working out and it will all be good At this point it's interesting to see how the numbers jump around, but when I start to eat poorly, seeing a number go up is a reminder to get back on track and that if I get back on track, this will be a-okay.

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It doesn't give you any meaningful data to weigh in everyday for the simple fact that if you're keeping yourself properly hydrated your weight will yo-yo throughout the day and going to the loo will change that significantly.

Stick to doing it once a week because at least then you have a proper trend as to your weight and not a volatile set of readings that will only end up needing to be averaged into a weekly reading to make sense of them anyway.

Funny, I think the exact opposite. Weighing once a week you're not only cutting your data down to a seventh, but you won't know where you actually are with your weight because you won't know where you were the day before or the day after. As you say, we fluctuate everyday. So let's say one day you fluctuate 3lbs heavier. It wasn't there the day before and won't be there the day after. But if you happen to weigh on the day you're fluctuating, you won't know that, and you may get disappointed because you haven't lost or have gained that week. I simply don't see how less data could, from an analytical point of view, be better.

I agree that there's not much point in weighing multiple times a day as your weight then comes down to what you're eating & doing that day, but in the morning things like that haven't affected you yet. And as tigerblue said, if you're aiming for a low weight loss, then it'll be ages before you really see a loss since it can get so easily masked by fluctuations. Weigh every day though and you're 7 times more likely to find a new low.

I weigh daily. Every morning and sometimes when I'm done with a workout just to note the difference. It's how I keep myself accountable.