How often do people weight themselves

I weight everyday usually. But I understand that the number on the scale is just part of the journey. If you are the type that will panic if the scale doesn't move fast enough or moved in the wrong direction, then you probably shouldn't weigh as often. Weightloss isn't linear. It can fluctuate daily based on a number of factors. But often I am reassured by the scale if I think I had a bad food day, then find the scale didn't change or maybe went down. As far as motivation when then scale is stuck, I look at it like this, if I'm logging and weighing all my food, eating at a deficit, and I'm using the right numbers for BMR/TDEE, the scale will lose the battle! It can be stubborn, but mathematically it has to go down. If you are still stuck after a week, re-examine your math.

Every day. Yes sometimes it's up, sometimes the same, but this way I get to see the overall trend. That's what keeps me motivated: a bad day doesn't derail everything.

Every morning.

Once a week. At the same time on the same day, just so I know the trend and whether I need to tweak my calorie intake more.

Every day

I would say every day after a good day of eating. For instance, if I go to all you can eat sushi, and literally have all I can eat, I'm ot jumping on the scale the next morning. I know that A) a lot of the extra weight is the food still in my body and if I see a dramatic increase I'll likely try to cut more calories. Which is bad, as that creates a binge/purge cycle. I've gone down that rabbit hole, and I'm good without it.

When I go to the gym, which is like once a week. Otherwise I don't pay much attention. I fluctuate often, and daily checking would only discourage me.

Every day. Usually twice a day. Always in the morning, and most nights too. I don't get emotional about it, which is how I survive doing it. My weight is the end of a long list of metabolic processes, many of which I have zero control over. I control the broad brush strokes of the trend, but the fine details of daily fluctuation are out of my control.

I try not to weigh everyday but I did twice a day lol I'm so addicted to the scale I used to be really annoyed when it went up but when the measurement went down and I'm more fit, I think that's matter for me.

SunnyDayzMomma wrote: »

I'm so surprised at how many weigh themselves every day. I've always read from trainers and fitness "experts", to weigh in once a week only. Otherwise you run a risk of it being counterintuitive or noticing the blips and being discouraged by them.

Call me a rebel, but I think I'm better able than they are to tell whether I'm discouraged (or confused, or otherwise distressed).

I believe in listening to experts when they have a solid research justification for what they're saying. I suspect the "experts" say "weigh weekly" out of experience that is heavily fraught with selection bias.

That is, I'll bet that diet coaches' circles of acquaintances significantly over-represent the proportion of the population who have seriously disordered relationships with food, eating, scales and weight. People like me, who simply get fat because they enjoying food too much and are self-indulgent, are less likely to consult diet coaches.

People can mostly figure out whether weighing themselves daily is a good idea for them, or a bad one . . . if they're not sure, perhaps it's a bad one.