weigh ins

LisaRoloff
LisaRoloff Posts: 43 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Ok, how do you keep from checking your weight every friggin morning. I know it's just not a good idea. I have been told absolutely no more than once a week and it would be better to weigh in only every two weeks, but I really want to just sort of check and see if anything is happening yet. Just by actively changing my food choices (in the past I was a big time carb loader under stress, and now I am actively trying to find other choices than carbs) I have been under my calorie goal since day one. I had 2 pieces of bread today and just felt totally blah. Not doing that again.

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    There's no strict rule saying don't weigh every morning. I do it, log it into an app on my phone, and look to make sure there's a downward trend. Only if seeing a gain from one day to the next discourages you is when you shouldn't go with it.
  • PoundChaser2
    PoundChaser2 Posts: 241 Member
    edited May 2015
    I weigh myself every morning But, I officially weigh only once a week. Its not a bad idea to check your weight everyday as long as you realize Your weight will have ups/downs. It keeps me in check!
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    I weigh every morning, and use TrendWeight.com to calculate the exponentially smoothed moving average. That number is far more useful than the individual data point. John Walker explains why in The Hacker's Diet (free ebook); see the chapter on "Signal and Noise."
  • meltedsno
    meltedsno Posts: 208 Member
    I shoved my $100+ scale under the bed 21 months ago and have not stepped on it since. I can't reach it.... that's how you stop from weighing every day... and... fwiw... last time I stepped on the scale was in Jan at the doctor... found out I lost 90 lbs... didn't need a scale to tell me that as my clothes went from size 20 to size 4... might step on the scale again some time... maybe next year when I go to the doc for my annual check up.... size 4s still zip comfortable so I don't fricken care what the scale says... I truly believe it was the 3+ times a day--every day-- that I used to step on the scale that was my biggest detterent in losing weight. Once I stopped focusing on the flucuations I saw and concentrated on how I looked, how I felt, how my clothes fit... I started losing.
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