How often do you guys weigh?

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  • hamlet1222
    hamlet1222 Posts: 459 Member
    Every morning exactly as above, bf% too. I also get an appreciation for natural fluctuations in my weight, and the scales inaccuracies. If I've not lost 0.5 kg after two weeks I start logging my diet and adjusting calories if necessary.
  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    I used to be in the 7-10 days camp, but I got a new very accurate scale & im pretty much an everyday girl now.
  • looney9708
    looney9708 Posts: 174 Member
    Unfortunately I've become obsessed. I weight myself a couple times a day. I need to put the scale away! It's not healthy. I realize weight loss is not linear but I'm slightly up and obsessed with getting back below THAT number
  • SingRunTing
    SingRunTing Posts: 2,604 Member
    I weigh daily. The frequency makes each individual weigh in mean a lot less. I don't care what each weight is, I look for trends over time (like 4 weeks worth).
  • oolou
    oolou Posts: 765 Member
    I've been weighing each day, first thing in the morning. After reading a number of threads on this site about frequency of weighing oneself, I decided to go daily so I could follow the overall trend.
  • KT_3009
    KT_3009 Posts: 1,042 Member
    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
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    KT_3009 wrote: »
    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

    It isn't "useless" -- if you follow a trend based on daily weight, you're actually eliminating "noise" from things like water weight. That isn't to say it's the only way to do it -- but it certainly works for some of us.
  • SingRunTing
    SingRunTing Posts: 2,604 Member
    edited October 2015
    KT_3009 wrote: »
    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

    It's only obsessive if you let it be.

    I weigh daily, just mark it down and move on. I don't really pay much attention to what it says on a daily basis. I use the daily weights to calculate my trends over time. It accounts for water weight fluctuations and helps you know if you're really gaining/losing/or maintaining. This is how most daily weighers on here use the information.

    This is much more accurate than looking at a number once a week/biweekly/or even monthly. You don't know if that weight is a high point (water weight retention) or if its a "real" weight because you don't have the rest of the data.

    For example: I have 157.2 pounds pop up at least once a week for the last three weeks. If those were the only days I weighed, I would think I wasn't losing weight.

    But since I weigh every day, I know that my averages for each of those weeks were: 157.1, 156.1, and 155.7. So I'm actually losing at a great rate.

    Getting the whole picture isn't something to condemn. If someone is obsessing over the scale, its a bad thing. But that's not what most people here are doing.
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    KT_3009 wrote: »
    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

    It isn't "useless" -- if you follow a trend based on daily weight, you're actually eliminating "noise" from things like water weight. That isn't to say it's the only way to do it -- but it certainly works for some of us.

    +1. If you weigh daily and calculate a moving average—especially an exponentially smoothed one—you can distinguish water weight fluctuations from a general trend. For me, it offers an early warning system against slowly regaining the weight that I lost.
  • AspenDan
    AspenDan Posts: 703 Member
    Really weighing is probably my biggest issue. I obsess over the scale and I fully admit it... Maybe someday I will only have to weigh in once a week..a man can dream, lol
  • JunoBeachVan
    JunoBeachVan Posts: 10 Member
    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.)
  • _benjammin
    _benjammin Posts: 1,224 Member
    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.
  • rissadiane
    rissadiane Posts: 355 Member
    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!
  • GreenKay
    GreenKay Posts: 14 Member
    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.
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    edited October 2015
    KT_3009 wrote: »
    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.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    If you have an app like trendweight, is it imperative that you weigh everyday? Will weighing once a week skew the results?
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    Daily. That is how I determine my actual CICO net results.
  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,213 Member
    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.
  • Shrink84
    Shrink84 Posts: 12 Member
    Once every two weeks.
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    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).
  • TheSwedish
    TheSwedish Posts: 6 Member
    Every morning. It keeps me accountable.
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