How often do you weigh yourself?

I've always heard once a week is good. But do NOT get obsessed with what the scale says. Focus on how your clothes fit you.

i do it every week, on a monday morning after i have breakfast. your weight will go up n down in the week

I like to weigh every day in order to keep a close eye on things. It's the highlight of my mornings, especially when it's minus something, lol. If it's plus, I know to be a little more careful that day. Works great for me....I couldn't stand having to wait an entire week. Congrats for joining, it's a great spot.

Being that your weight will fluctuate a bit day to day, you may want to weigh yourself more than once a week. weighing yourself more often allows to track the general trend of weight loss/gain. Weighing yourself once a week may find a couple weeks at your highpoint, which can be a little frustrating.

i do it every week, on a monday morning after i have breakfast. your weight will go up n down in the week

Remember, you're weighing your breakfast too!!

I weigh every morning before food, after the restroom, dead naked. Tomorrow 'should' be my lightest day of the week...but I've tossed in some odd variables over the last few days, so it might not work out that way.

Cris

I weigh every morning after my shower then again when I get home from work then again before I go to bed. Not because I obsess about the number but because I am curious how different parts of the day change how much I weigh. By the way, I usually weigh my lightest in the morning, slightly heaver after work and even heavier before bed before dropping back down (usually) the next morning. My official check in weigh is the morning weight because I like to see the daily fluctuations on my progress graph. I love charts and graphs and number crunching

I weigh mysel, and write down my weight every myself every morning in order to:

- remind myself that the scale isn't always on my side but if I know I had a great day, the number WILL NOT get me down
- remind myself that small fluctuations are normal and not to give up
- be able to review, and show others, that reaching my goal weight was not all peaches and cream losses every week and that, if I can do it, anyone can
- to see where I am headed

I have been at a plateau for the past couple of weeks and I have not been discouraged because I can see my food on myfitnesspal and my daily weight and kick it in the butt this week. Old me would have given up.

Well I was just reading the posts and there are a few scale phobics amongst us. There is not right or wrong answer to your question. Most professional trainers recommend you weight yourself when first commencing a program and then weekly to gauge your progress. The best time to do this is first thing in the morning on a selected day, ie say Monday.
Daily is a little drastic as your weight can fluctuate every hour let alone everyday dependent on the food you eat, the fluid you drink and the exercise you do. Weighing yourself daily can have a negative impact on your weight loss and cause you to regress to old behaviors.
It's important to learn how to read your weight lose as it will plateau at some stage (stay the same). If this happens don't become dishearten, look at what you are doing and how you are doing it. In most cases if you are following your nutritional plan it will be the fact that your body has become accustom to what exercise you are doing. The simple solution, change it or step it up a notch.
That's why you see the trainers on show's like the biggest loser constantly changing the exercise the contestants are doing, so the body never adapts, of course they push them harder than most would train also.
Good Luck