How often do you weigh yourself?

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  • FitStrongHealthy
    FitStrongHealthy Posts: 220 Member
    Every morning, just to monitor day-to-day fluctuations, and I log my weight once a month on MFP.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    strong_curves wrote: »
    Every morning. I'm using an app called Happy Scale that will help track me track my weight better, especially when it comes to the dreaded water weight/bloating.
    Happy Scale is pretty awesome. Anything that better shows the trend could be a big help to people worried about fluctuations.
  • fulltimelife
    fulltimelife Posts: 125 Member
    edited June 2015
    Every morning, but log it once a week. Seeing the number every day holds me more accountable. I can do too much damage in a week, and especially in a month, if I let weigh-ins get too infrequent. Not doing it daily may lead to me forgetting. Forgetting leads to other minor mistakes. Minor multiple mistakes leads to being back at the start.

    And I've been back at the start too many times. This time I'm not letting my guard down.

    Seeing the scale number first thing in the morning helps nudge me toward making better choices throughout the day. It's a reminder, good or bad, that my choices have consequences. I'm not worried about day to day fluctuations. I'd be more concerned with a false high or low if I were only weighing in once a week or once a month. Daily provides me with more information to work off of, and more to learn from. I like data.

    This ritual is the springboard to my day.
  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    Every day. sometimes more, but I only track the first reading of the day. I find it interesting to see how my weight fluctuates day to day.
  • jesikalovesyou
    jesikalovesyou Posts: 172 Member
    fulltimelife wrote: »
    Every morning, but log it once a week. Seeing the number every day holds me more accountable. I can do too much damage in a week, and especially in a month, if I let weigh-ins get too infrequent. Not doing it daily may lead to me forgetting. Forgetting leads to other minor mistakes. Minor multiple mistakes leads to being back at the start.

    And I've been back at the start too many times. This time I'm not letting my guard down.

    Seeing the scale number first thing in the morning helps nudge me toward making better choices throughout the day. It's a reminder, good or bad, that my choices have consequences. I'm not worried about day to day fluctuations. I'd be more concerned with a false high or low if I were only weighing in once a week or once a month. Daily provides me with more information to work off of, and more to learn from. I like data.

    This ritual is the springboard to my day.

    Yep! If I haven't weighed myself in a while. I know I've been eating bad!
  • SSA878xO
    SSA878xO Posts: 5 Member
    I usually do it once a week..this time I am waiting 21 days to weigh myself. With the workout I'm doing a lot of people lost more inches versus weight so I don't want to be disappointed by weighing my self before the 21 days is up!
  • SomeGirlSomewhere
    SomeGirlSomewhere Posts: 937 Member
    jesikalovesyou wrote: »
    I do it about 5 times a day. It makes me happy to weigh myself, go pee, then see how much I lost. Some people can't do this because they get to obsessed with seeing the scale go down. But I like documenting it everyday (only keeping the first weight of the day) and also seeing how it fluctuates during the day.

    It proves that weight fluctuates all the time and I can't get mad if the scale is not always going down. :smiley:

    @jesikalovesyou ----This is the polar opposite my approach to weighing myself, which thus far has been to not own a scale and weigh myself only when I am at a doctor's office. Oddly, I see a certain logic to your ideas about weighing yourself even though they're so very different than my own. I am getting very close to transitioning from losing weight to maintaining my weight and I am thinking your way of doing things might be a better option for me when it comes to maintenance.
  • Verdenal
    Verdenal Posts: 625 Member
    If I'm staying on top of my weight, every morning.
  • dsneade
    dsneade Posts: 21 Member
    I weigh myself before and after each workout so I can take note of fluid loss during the workout. I consider my weight after a workout on Monday (my first workout of the week) my "Official" weigh-in
  • Tab122377
    Tab122377 Posts: 81 Member
    we do a weekly weigh in at work... keep our self accountable wens. at 8am we all go in a group.
  • Roughgalaxy
    Roughgalaxy Posts: 219 Member
    max, once a month. Since I tend to do 3 month programs, I usually way myself once every 3 months. (before and after) Though I will say, weight doesn't say much. take pictures and measurements instead they tell a much better story!
  • krdews
    krdews Posts: 124 Member
    Everyday, sometimes twice a day... especially after a good long run/workout I like to see that number drop!
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    Measure weekly. Weigh every month to two months.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Tab122377 wrote: »
    we do a weekly weigh in at work... keep our self accountable wens. at 8am we all go in a group.

    Ya, I lost 30 pounds through at work competitions. We weighed once per week and kicked in $5, and the person who had lost the biggest percentage of weight at the end of an arbitrary period (may have been two months) won the kitty. I came in second and third, but that's fine.

    Knowing other people would see my number helped motivate me.

  • sdmccoy93
    sdmccoy93 Posts: 12 Member
    Twice per day: once in the morning before I get dressed and once before I go to bed. I have 150 lbs to lose and like to see how my behavior (diet and exercise) impacts my weight. I don't recommend that everyone does this but it motivates me.

    My official weigh in is weekly, on Tuesdays.
  • blazngfyre78
    blazngfyre78 Posts: 3 Member
    I weigh myself about once a week usually on Mondays just after my shower and before getting dressed.
  • Kman4evah
    Kman4evah Posts: 67 Member
    Every 2 weeks, with measurements done once a month.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Since I'm actively working to lose weight, I weigh daily in the morning after my morning business and before eating. I keep a clipboard on the wall near the scale and I note the number. I like data and I'm not bothered by fluctuations, since I'm more interested in the trendline. More data points give a better trendline to analyze.

    I'm also doing an experiment by recording my evening weight before bed. I'm trying to see if there is any correlation to be made between the overnight change and diet. I figure I'll keep this up for two months total for enough data to work with, then go back to keeping only my morning weight.
  • joshuapowell1989
    joshuapowell1989 Posts: 163 Member
    Once a day, first thing in the morning after my morning wee.
    But I do have another weight app which estimates my timeframe based on trends and I log that every Monday Morning at the same time as I log onto the Drop 20 by July 4th Group
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    daily normally - sometimes I forget for a few days

    I track on trendweight (like happyscale)
  • sahm2mandm
    sahm2mandm Posts: 8 Member
    I'm back to only weighing in once a month. From May '14 to Jan'15 I did once a month at my drs office. From Jan-May I bought a scale and weighed in whenever I felt like it. It messed with my head. So I'm going back to once a month.
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