weigh yourself!!!

I weigh myself every 3 or 4 days....but the number never changes. The scale sits on 131 lbs regardless if I eat clean, workout heavy or light , or just chill out for days on end. I guess as long as it isn't going UP I should be happy...lol

Good morning Coley! Actually, I do eat at a deficit, but I think my issue could also be related to my age...I'm twice your age, so it's a little harder to keep my girlish figure now than it was 20 years ago. I don't think I could eat much less, or much cleaner...but I could definitely give up the booze on the weekends, I've always felt that gets in the way of my success. On good days I just tell myself that at 46 I'm pretty awesome, and probably at the size God wants me to be anyways....Love the edit button! Might I add that I had lost 70 lbs until the last two years when I plateau'd at 130-131.... xo

You should weigh yourself at the same time of day, preferably in the morning before you eat. Only weigh yourself every week or so, since you weight can fluctuate often.

CurlyCockney wrote: »

Sarri93 wrote: »

Good lord, some people are so sensitive.

@steponebyone and everyone else who's getting offended by someone saying to look for the million other threads. Some places have rules in place that you have to make sure something hasn't been posted or asked recently before posting. It clogs up the content for other legitimate, unasked questions and conversations.

This place has rules that say that MFP "explicitly allow members to post questions that have been asked previously by other members".


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@OP I weigh myself every day, but use a graph to see the trends (so that the little, natural blips don't concern me!)

In my experience, forums that forbid asking questions or creating topics that have been asked before and "to utilize the search feature" are a ghost town.

This forum would certainly be dead if people couldn't ask questions or post topics that had been asked before.

As an aside, it is apparently against the rules to point out that something is against the rules. Which makes me pointing this out also against the rules, and so on and so on until the universe implodes.


OP, I weigh every morning, without clothes on, after going to the bathroom.

mops89 wrote: »

I will not check bazillion of threads just to get a simple answer. If you don't like it, don't answer.

I'll do the work for you. If you'll fall to pieces because of normal fluctuations, weigh weekly. Otherwise, weigh daily. You're welcome.

Hi mops89. I weigh myself every 10 days or so. If I weigh myself too often, I know it will be easy to get discouraged. On the topic of searching for other threads, I think the rude poster might have been suggesting that you use the search function at the top of the page. I tried it by putting in "weigh yourself" and got "bazillions" of threads on the topic. Sometimes I do use that function when I just want a quick answer (it can be faster than writing a post), but sometimes, dang it, we all want a little conversation and attention. No need for that poster to be so rude! Keep up your hard work.

I like data and am not bothered by fluctuations. I weigh myself daily, soon after waking, after bathroom, and naked. I take tape measurements once a week. I only record weight loss on mfp once weekly, update my fitbit with every loss, I only update measurements on mfp when there is a decrease. I keep these stats and others in a private spread sheet with graphs that show trend lines.

I typically weigh myself every other week. My goal is to lose 1 pound per week. Doing it more than that would not show much of a difference in weight.