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How often should I be weighing myself for weight loss?
jax_006
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What are you guys thoughts on this?
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It's totally up to you. Some people like myself prefer daily weighing. I think it makes me more accountable and I just plain like data. Other people weigh weekly as they feel like they get freaked out by the (inevitable) daily variations. Others apparently like less-frequent weighings, say monthly.0
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It's easier to correct your errors if you weigh daily0
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queenliz99 wrote: »It's easier to correct your errors if you weigh daily
Interesting. Do you mean if you have a slip/ a cheat day or meal?0 -
queenliz99 wrote: »It's easier to correct your errors if you weigh daily
Interesting. Do you mean if you have a slip/ a cheat day or meal?
If you are not trending downward, then there is something wrong with your intake/outtake. Your calculations are off. Catch it now or catch it in a month, you decide.0 -
I like to log my weight daily becomes I'm a numbers freak and love graphs. Haha
But also because I don't want to be surprised at the weekly/monthly weigh in when I haven't lost what I thought I did (either because I really haven't lost it, or because I ate a high sodium meal or worked out really hard the day before and am retaining water, etc.)0 -
queenliz99 wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »It's easier to correct your errors if you weigh daily
Interesting. Do you mean if you have a slip/ a cheat day or meal?
If you are not trending downward, then there is something wrong with your intake/outtake. Your calculations are off. Catch it now or catch it in a month, you decide.
Great advice! I have always been scared to weigh everyday because I am a bit obsessive (in a bad way) when it comes to the number on the scale. I will give that a try since I feel I have stalled. Thanks!0 -
I like to log my weight daily becomes I'm a numbers freak and love graphs. Haha
But also because I don't want to be surprised at the weekly/monthly weigh in when I haven't lost what I thought I did (either because I really haven't lost it, or because I ate a high sodium meal or worked out really hard the day before and am retaining water, etc.)
Good info! I think I will give that a try!0 -
Once a week, weighing yourself every day can have negative impact on your goals. Your body weightwill fluctuate daily, even more so for women. So it's important you don't become obsessed with the numbers and just weigh yourself once a week in the morning.0
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I tend to weigh daily so I can keep track of general trends, like increasing or decreasing water weight. I think it would drive me nuts to weigh just once a week because I wouldn't know what exactly led to a particular weight at that point in time. Control freak, yes.0
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I believe it would depend on the individual and what you do with that info. If you use it to motivate you to do better and as purely a benchmark of how your doing I would think daily at the same time within your routine is fine. But if you obsess over your weight and it affects your mood perhaps weekly would be better suited.
I use a withings scale and will sometimes switch it to weigh in Stones or Kg. so I don't really know what the number is until I reset it but it will still track and graph in whatever I want so I don't lose the data.
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I weigh daily but only record weekly. That way I can monitor how I am doing without being crazy about the fluxuations.0
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I check my weight 2-4 times a week, probably, but I only record it once a week. The non-logged ones are just out of curiosity honestly.0
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Daily, unless I am on my period. Then I weigh myself the day after my period is over.
I like the data and I enjoy watch it go down every day or two. Plus it keeps me accountable. If I am weighing myself every morning I feel less inclined to back-pedaling.0 -
I weigh daily and use Trendweight to track my trendline. It is harder to log the gains but the data and seeing the fluctuations and how they fit in the long term is pretty interesting. I only started making myself log gains and started using the trendweight app a few months ago and looking back over the past year's graph I really wish I had done it from the beginning.0
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I weigh myself once a week, always first thing in the morning on the same days (Wednesday), for the sake of consistency. Your weight fluctuates from day to day, I think it's futile to weigh yourself every day. For me, it's also a carryover from over a decade ago when I did Weight Watchers for the first time because that's when my week started for the purpose of points.0
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I weigh daily precisely because weight fluctuates so much day to day - it makes it easier to identify fluctuations AS fluctuations, and more data points means more accurate trending.0
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I would weigh monthly since you may also be gaining muscle if your lifting. At least see some results!0
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If your goal is weight loss at least twice a week. Same exact time and situation. Keeps you motivated and accountable.0
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queenliz99 wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »It's easier to correct your errors if you weigh daily
Interesting. Do you mean if you have a slip/ a cheat day or meal?
If you are not trending downward, then there is something wrong with your intake/outtake. Your calculations are off. Catch it now or catch it in a month, you decide.
Tracking a trend takes time; you don't learn much different from weighing daily or monthly. With daily, you still need time to see a trend. With monthly, you just take a snap shot of the trend.0 -
concordancia wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »It's easier to correct your errors if you weigh daily
Interesting. Do you mean if you have a slip/ a cheat day or meal?
If you are not trending downward, then there is something wrong with your intake/outtake. Your calculations are off. Catch it now or catch it in a month, you decide.
Tracking a trend takes time; you don't learn much different from weighing daily or monthly. With daily, you still need time to see a trend. With monthly, you just take a snap shot of the trend.
You do see a trend faster if you log daily, or rather the trend reaches a given level of accuracy sooner.
If you look at 3 weeks of data, a trend calculated from 21 data points is a lot more accurate than a trend from 3 data points. Each measurement still has "error" - in this case, the fluctuations due to non-fat weight - but as you include more data points, the error tends to cancel out to a much higher degree, so for a given length of time, you are more confident in the trend line with more data points.0
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