Scale/ accountability

desiresdestiny
desiresdestiny Posts: 175 Member
edited November 2024 in Goal: Maintaining Weight
hello
Once you hit maintenance, how often do you weigh yourself and how many pounds do you let yourself fluctuate by?
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  • pmanney
    pmanney Posts: 25 Member
    Weigh 1-3x a week, vary by +/-1.5 lbs approx.
  • shadowconn
    shadowconn Posts: 141 Member
    Once a week . . . twice a week. I kinda have to scale down my scale useage after I want to maintain. I'll get up as high as weighing myself 15 times a day while I'm losing weight.
  • MissJay75
    MissJay75 Posts: 768 Member
    Once a day. I know which weight is water weight and which is fat. I allow any water weight fluctuation, but if I gain a pound of fat, I'll eat at a deficit until it's gone.
  • griffinca2
    griffinca2 Posts: 672 Member
    Usually Sun, Mon, Wed, and Fri; my scale also has a fat % and I do that abt twice a week. I'm in maint (and doing recomp) and basically want my weight to stay abt the same. B)
  • desiresdestiny
    desiresdestiny Posts: 175 Member
    MissJay75 wrote: »
    Once a day. I know which weight is water weight and which is fat. I allow any water weight fluctuation, but if I gain a pound of fat, I'll eat at a deficit until it's gone.

    How do you know the difference between water weight and actual gain
  • 257_Lag
    257_Lag Posts: 1,249 Member
    I'm not at maintenance yet but I'm close. I intend to keep weighing and charting my weight in my phone daily. Probably for the rest of my life. It takes like 20 seconds a day and creates a trend line. I plan to give myself a variance of about 4 pounds before taking corrective action. 185-189
  • 257_Lag
    257_Lag Posts: 1,249 Member
    desiresdestiny wrote: »
    MissJay75 wrote: »
    Once a day. I know which weight is water weight and which is fat. I allow any water weight fluctuation, but if I gain a pound of fat, I'll eat at a deficit until it's gone.

    How do you know the difference between water weight and actual gain

    Charting will show you this. The LINE is your true weight. A spike is water.
    gb9qs705u7x0.jpg
  • desiresdestiny
    desiresdestiny Posts: 175 Member
    257_Lag wrote: »
    desiresdestiny wrote: »
    MissJay75 wrote: »
    Once a day. I know which weight is water weight and which is fat. I allow any water weight fluctuation, but if I gain a pound of fat, I'll eat at a deficit until it's gone.

    How do you know the difference between water weight and actual gain

    Charting will show you this. The LINE is your true weight. A spike is water.
    gb9qs705u7x0.jpg


    So do you weigh everyday?
  • 257_Lag
    257_Lag Posts: 1,249 Member
    I do and have for 2 1/2 years. Wake, pee, weigh (naked) record. It's not for everybody but it works for me.


  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Only the week after my period, as it's usually my lowest as it's when I drop water weight... Then I compare to the month before... if it's even a pound more, I try to cut a little bit more (I can predict usually by how much I've been eating though). I'm still aiming to lose a pound a month or something.

    I don't even want to deal with water weight, it's totally random, doesn't mean a thing, and just frustrates me, lol.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    A few times a week....my range has to stay within +/-5lbs, if I got to top end of range I'd tske action but so far so good (almost 2 yrs in maintenance)
  • PinkyPan1
    PinkyPan1 Posts: 3,018 Member
    I weigh myself on Friday mornings. My range is 2 lbs.
  • desiresdestiny
    desiresdestiny Posts: 175 Member
    257_Lag wrote: »
    I do and have for 2 1/2 years. Wake, pee, weigh (naked) record. It's not for everybody but it works for me.


    Thanks
  • desiresdestiny
    desiresdestiny Posts: 175 Member
    Thanks everyone I'm thinking maybe once a week
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  • M30834134
    M30834134 Posts: 411 Member
    257_Lag wrote: »
    desiresdestiny wrote: »
    MissJay75 wrote: »
    Once a day. I know which weight is water weight and which is fat. I allow any water weight fluctuation, but if I gain a pound of fat, I'll eat at a deficit until it's gone.

    How do you know the difference between water weight and actual gain

    Charting will show you this. The LINE is your true weight. A spike is water.
    gb9qs705u7x0.jpg

    @257_Lag what app is this?
  • M30834134
    M30834134 Posts: 411 Member
    NM, found it
  • DoreenaV1975
    DoreenaV1975 Posts: 567 Member
    I plan to continue to weigh everyday. I feel like if I do this I can take corrective action immediately if I see the scale go up.
  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    I honestly need to stay away from the scale. It affects me waaaaaay more than it should. I got by how my other fit (one form-fitting dress and a tight pair of jeans, especially) in that sense. But mostly I focus on health gains--lifting more/heavier and improving my running times. Staying off the scale makes for a much happier me!
  • lisab64mfp
    lisab64mfp Posts: 89 Member
    I weigh pretty much daily. My watch it weight is multiple days at 145 or above (142 is where scale should be).
  • MissJay75
    MissJay75 Posts: 768 Member
    desiresdestiny wrote: »
    MissJay75 wrote: »
    Once a day. I know which weight is water weight and which is fat. I allow any water weight fluctuation, but if I gain a pound of fat, I'll eat at a deficit until it's gone.

    How do you know the difference between water weight and actual gain

    I know in part because I have been logging for 18 months. I am very diligent to log as accurately as possible. The calories I need for my TDEE are spot on with what MFP tells me they should be. When I was set to lose 1 pound a week, average over time I did. So I know the other fluctuations are water. When I set it to 1/2 a pound a week, and added 250 calories more per day, I lost average over time 1/2 a pound a week. And when I hit maintenance and added another 250 calories back per day, I have maintained on average over time exactly.

    If I go over on my calories, I keep a tally. If I go over by 3500 calories, the scale will show 1 pound gain. So I eat at a deficit until I've made up those 3500 calories, and over time the scale goes back down.

    When the scale changes quickly, I know it's water. When the scale changes and the number's I've eaten haven't, I know it's water. And I have a long track record to back it up, which gives me confidence in the numbers.

    I hope that makes sense.


  • desiresdestiny
    desiresdestiny Posts: 175 Member
    MissJay75 wrote: »
    desiresdestiny wrote: »
    MissJay75 wrote: »
    Once a day. I know which weight is water weight and which is fat. I allow any water weight fluctuation, but if I gain a pound of fat, I'll eat at a deficit until it's gone.

    How do you know the difference between water weight and actual gain

    I know in part because I have been logging for 18 months. I am very diligent to log as accurately as possible. The calories I need for my TDEE are spot on with what MFP tells me they should be. When I was set to lose 1 pound a week, average over time I did. So I know the other fluctuations are water. When I set it to 1/2 a pound a week, and added 250 calories more per day, I lost average over time 1/2 a pound a week. And when I hit maintenance and added another 250 calories back per day, I have maintained on average over time exactly.

    If I go over on my calories, I keep a tally. If I go over by 3500 calories, the scale will show 1 pound gain. So I eat at a deficit until I've made up those 3500 calories, and over time the scale goes back down.

    When the scale changes quickly, I know it's water. When the scale changes and the number's I've eaten haven't, I know it's water. And I have a long track record to back it up, which gives me confidence in the numbers.

    I hope that makes sense.


    Yes it does
  • dopeysmelly
    dopeysmelly Posts: 1,390 Member
    I weigh every day, log in Happy Scale and watch the trend. It's exactly what I did when I was losing as well.
  • kristen6350
    kristen6350 Posts: 1,094 Member
    1x a week. Will allow myself to fluctuate between 147 - 152, so 5lbs. But I'm usually in the 150 range.
  • dakotababy
    dakotababy Posts: 2,407 Member
    I have just entered into maintenance about a month ago. I have found myself getting on the scale daily still. I find I start getting nervous when I am about 3lbs above my lowest weight which is 146lbs. That so far has been my cue to watch it!
  • xKoalaBearx
    xKoalaBearx Posts: 181 Member
    edited August 2015
    257_Lag wrote: »
    desiresdestiny wrote: »
    MissJay75 wrote: »
    Once a day. I know which weight is water weight and which is fat. I allow any water weight fluctuation, but if I gain a pound of fat, I'll eat at a deficit until it's gone.

    How do you know the difference between water weight and actual gain

    Charting will show you this. The LINE is your true weight. A spike is water.
    gb9qs705u7x0.jpg



    What app is that please?
  • CasperNaegle
    CasperNaegle Posts: 936 Member
    I weigh every morning naked and after I pee... Just a habit. I don't get overly bugged out as long as I trend the way I want to over time.
  • 257_Lag
    257_Lag Posts: 1,249 Member
    xKoalaBearx wrote: »
    257_Lag wrote: »
    desiresdestiny wrote: »
    MissJay75 wrote: »
    Once a day. I know which weight is water weight and which is fat. I allow any water weight fluctuation, but if I gain a pound of fat, I'll eat at a deficit until it's gone.

    How do you know the difference between water weight and actual gain

    Charting will show you this. The LINE is your true weight. A spike is water.
    gb9qs705u7x0.jpg



    What app is that please?

    Libra for Android
  • CoconuttyMummy
    CoconuttyMummy Posts: 685 Member
    I'm nearing maintenance (recomp). Ive lost 30lbs and i've 2.5 pounds left to drop until my initial goal of 119 pounds.

    So, when those last 2.5 pounds finally get the message and tittle-off my plan is to continue weighing daily (every other day at most) so that i can keep an eye on things. I feel like a lot of damage could be done in 1 week if im gaining all week and didnt realise it, so regular weigh-ins will be my way of keeping tighter in check, at least until i have a solid, effective maintenance program set up, which i figure will take me a while of playing with calories until i hit my sweet-spot for maintenance.

  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    weigh once a week, with about a 5 lb fluctuation.
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