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    How otfen do you update your weight?

    Posts: 149 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Hello all,

    I admit to weighing myself daily. However, I would only update my weight once a week. Lately I have been updating my weight daily (provided there was a change). I find it is helping keep me accountable.

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    • Posts: 2,328 Member
      I weigh everyday and update when it's lower for a couple days in a row.
    • Posts: 17,890 Member
      edited August 2015
      Why would you feel the need to "admit" to doing something that is good for you?

      Oh, there's a question too :p
      I weigh daily, log in Fitbit, analyze by Trendweight.
    • Posts: 80 Member
      Every Friday morning. No questions asked. IMO daily is too often but whatever works for you! :)
    • Posts: 567 Member
      Once a week on a Monday, so I don't 'blow it' over the weekend
    • Posts: 3,738 Member
      Once a week on friday. I don't have to worry about the weekends I work them. :)
    • Posts: 40 Member
      Every day. I like tracking trends. I also do not let the number sway me.
    • Posts: 577 Member
      I update once a week on my weigh in day. Updating every day would make me crazy. What about water weight fluctuations?
    • Posts: 1,303 Member
      If by update your weight you mean enter it into MFP, then whenever I way myself (almost every day). No reason not to unless you need to psych yourself out (which is OK if it works for you).
    • Posts: 645 Member
      I only weigh every couple of weeks or so, and update then. I had an ED many years ago and know how very easy it is for me to get obsessed with numbers, especially the ones on the scale. I don't ever want to get to that point again. As long as I'm eating well and exercising as much as I can, at this point in my life I don't need to see the number on the scale very often.
    • Posts: 409 Member
      I update my weight daily to analyze on trend weight. Though I sometimes ignore a random high day that I know was the result of extra sodium or alcohol. If that high weight stays more than I day I log it.
    • Posts: 303 Member
      i weigh myself every day but only record it when there's a loss.
    • Posts: 3,498 Member
      edited August 2015
      Weigh daily, log daily
    • Posts: 958 Member
      I record on my lifting sheets, so 4 days a week, M, T, Th, F. I only record a loss when the number has dropped and stayed down for a couple days.
      I should use all the pages (months) I have, put them in an excel sheet and chart it out….but that seems like too much work….lol
    • Posts: 4,374 Member
      Unless there's no change, I record my weight daily to see my trend and hope it stays where I want.
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      I use a different app to log my weight and other things like BP, etc. I weigh pretty much daily, but my official day is Thursday.
    • Posts: 190 Member
      I weigh myself on monday, and record that weight..unless i have a drop of more than 1lb mid week. I weigh myself when i get ip, and before i go to bed.
    • Posts: 6,993 Member
      Every other week.
    • Posts: 55 Member
      Somebody else mentioned trendweight, I think Trendweight is awesome. I hook it up to my fit bit account, and it pulls my weight from that. It tells me a rolling average, so all those fluctuations get smoothed out.
      https://trendweight.com/u/a99869c40ee84c/
    • Posts: 8,423 Member
      I weigh once a week and record it no matter what it is.
    • Posts: 184 Member
      I weigh daily but only record it once a week on Mondays.
    • Posts: 333 Member
      Weigh and log daily.
    • Posts: 5,724 Member
      pinkys008 wrote: »
      Somebody else mentioned trendweight, I think Trendweight is awesome. I hook it up to my fit bit account, and it pulls my weight from that. It tells me a rolling average, so all those fluctuations get smoothed out.
      https://trendweight.com/u/a99869c40ee84c/

      Happy Scale is an app that does the same. I weigh every morning and input it into Happy Scale. I usually enter my weight in MFP on Saturdays and Mondays because of groups I'm part of. Sometimes midweek too if I'm happy with how things are going.
    • Posts: 7,692 Member
      I weigh daily and my scale automatically syncs the weight to Fitbit which updates my weight here; so weigh/log it daily.
    • Posts: 38 Member
      I weigh in everyday and record my weight once a week. Although I'd like not to weigh myself everyday, I can feel myself getting slightly addicted and it's not good. I think once i get to my goal weight I will only weigh in once a week.
    • Posts: 456 Member
      About once a month I know it is not a lot but I was weighing myself way to much, pretty much every time I went into the bathroom and had to make a change.
    • Posts: 86 Member
      TiffanyElaine89 wrote: »
      I weigh in everyday and record my weight once a week. Although I'd like not to weigh myself everyday, I can feel myself getting slightly addicted and it's not good. I think once i get to my goal weight I will only weigh in once a week.

      Just FYI, I just read your profile. Very impressive! Good luck!
    • Posts: 715 Member
      I weigh myself at the dr office lol and that's maybe yearly. I'm one of those people who base everything on what you see and feel. Weight is just a number
    • Posts: 359 Member
      I weigh myself daily in theorning after I pee. It keeps me focused.
    • Posts: 205 Member
      I weigh myself once a fortnight and update my weight on mfp every 2 months. I found that I self sabotage when I weigh myself more often. Besides, my clothes tell me how I'm doing.
    • Posts: 173 Member
      edited August 2015
      if its keeping you accountable and not pi**ing you off as it does with me sometimes, then I guess daily is ok. I weigh once a week.
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