To weigh or not to weigh...

I weigh every day. Some day up, some days down. The up & down bothered me at first, but I realized as long as the long term trend is down, it's all good, plus then you learn what foods, drinks activities make you go up or down. Eat some chicken wings, boom, 2-4 lbs water retention.

Some say daily so they can look for an overall trend. Some stick to weekly or even monthly because they don't like seeing fluctuations. It's really whatever you prefer. If you can handle the daily fluctuations in exchange for more data, then weigh often.

I only weigh myself on Saturdays because it is the only day of the week I get to sleep in and use the bathroom without my small children disturbing me. Have I mentioned how much I love Saturdays?!

I have done daily for so long the ups and downs don't phase me anymore. I tried waiting a week but missed it. It's become such a habit.

I weigh myself every two weeks. I'm not sure why people think that weighing every day shows you the general trend. It doesn't. Basic statistics (also financial stuff too I guess). You get an idea of the general trend of looking at the change over time. Having lots of individual data points doesn't change the total movement - all it does is stress you out when you see the inevitable little fluctuations. Weighing weekly or fortnightly dodges a lot of those fluctuations by showing you your total progress over one week or two. Same principle as with investments. If you watch your long-term investments every single day, you'll see them go up and down and it stresses you out, but if you only look at them once every 6 months or once a year, you see what direction they've gone overall.

If you want to see your progress in general terms, I vote for weighing no more than weekly. I prefer when I weigh myself to see a drop of at least 1lb.

If you can deal with feeling potentially disheartened when you wake up and find your weight to be slightly higher than yesterday (for reasons that could be simple water retention, as opposed to actual fat, which your scale cannot distinguish between) then daily might work for you.

I weigh daily because I'm a numbers person, and like lots and lots of data.

One thing the daily weighing has taught me that I wouldn't otherwise have seen is that my weight change is very dependent on the day of the week. Over the past 3 months, my average loss from Saturday morning to Sunday morning is more than a pound and a half. However, my average loss from Tuesday morning to Wednesday morning is very nearly zero. This does not appear to be due to a difference in calories (either eaten or sweated) between the days. I'm trying to figure out if it has something to do with carb/protein/salt intake. This is the kind of drilling down that you can't do with weekly measurement.

My wife, on the other hand, measures weekly. She doesn't want all the numbers, and weighing each day would be too emotionally trying.

So, yeah - what others have said. It depends on your personality.

Once a week - Sunday morning.

I weigh morning and night every day and I can cope with it. My official weigh in day is Friday

Lol ... I had to take the scale out of my house. I got to the point to where I had to weigh myself each time that I ate. Addict much? Anyway, now I use the scale that we have at work and I weigh in every Monday morning. What I have noticed is that I behave myself on the weekends much more knowing that I have a meeting with Mr. Scale every Monday morning

I weigh in every seven days, in the evening, wearing basically the same clothes. That's probably overkill...biweekly or monthly is sufficient, I'm sure.

I weigh everyday. I just love it when I see a pound lost. If I gain a pound it makes me not want to cheat. So it's a win win.