How often do you guys weigh?
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I weigh everyday (even got the Fitbit Aria scale to automatically pump the numbers directly into MFP.
Even though people will (correctly) note that water changes mean your weight can fluctuate daily, you've GOT to weigh daily to spot the trends before they get away from you.
Weight goes up a pound since yesterday? No biggie. Weight has gone up 2 straight days... hmm, maybe I'm slipping up, and need to check my diet and/or hit the gym for sure today.
(Obviously, medical issues and menstrual cycles can have an effect too, but at least not for me yet.)0 -
nicolebaugh518 wrote: »Every morning.
^This
I track rolling 7 day calorie and weight averages. I only change my calorie goal if the scale isn't moving in the desired direction after 2 weeks.0 -
I weigh daily just for statistical purposes. If I have a good loss, yay! If I gained, shrug and see if there's a pattern and move on!0
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Wake up, pee, strip, weigh. I aim for every day, but usually get in about 5 a week. Record the weight on Fridays. Weighing in is my time to reflect back on what I did right or wrong over the last few days, consider how I feel and determine how I want to proceed.
I find that if I am not weighing it is because I am avoiding the knowledge of what I have been doing to my body.0 -
I find it useless how people weigh themselves daily due to water weight and it can become an unhealthy obsession! I do my weigh ins weekly to fortnightly which many health professionals and doctors recommend
Individual data points are just as unreliable however often you weigh in, but trend lines become more reliable with daily weights, just due to the fact you have seven or fourteen times more points to use in the trending.
If I really wanted to get clever I could use an exponentially smoothed moving average or a low-pass digital filter algorithm to clean my weight data up further, but that seems unnecessary. I just pull 30 and 90 day trends into excel and work from there.0 -
If you have an app like trendweight, is it imperative that you weigh everyday? Will weighing once a week skew the results?0
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Daily. That is how I determine my actual CICO net results.0
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I weighed daily for years, but have just switched to weighing only occasionally (maybe once every week and a half, no set schedule). I switched because I am trying to emphasize the process rather than the so-called achievement.0
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Once every two weeks.0
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christinev297 wrote: »If you have an app like trendweight, is it imperative that you weigh everyday? Will weighing once a week skew the results?
Any form of trending becomes less accurate with fewer data points to work with - I don't know specifically how trendweight's algorithm handles missing data points. In theory they could be interpolating the data via any one of a number of algorithms, but I wouldn't guarantee that the people making the sites and apps have a background in digital signal processing (which is really what that is).0 -
Every morning. It keeps me accountable.0
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