weighing yourself

hoffmierr · April 2016

How often should you weigh yourself? I just bought my first scale and have been excited to weigh myself but would you recommend weekly? Or - More often or less

lmbecker12 · April 2016

I think it's completely a personal preference. I typically look at my weekly trend (say Monday-Monday), but I do weigh daily. If you choose to weigh daily--don't get freaked out by daily fluctuations that can easily occur...

cityruss · April 2016

As often as you want.

vismal · April 2016

Weigh daily but put no importance into the result, rather log it. After a week take the 7 weights and average them. Then after a month, compare the weekly averages to each other. Better yet, you can input the daily weights into tracking or graphing software and visualize your trend. This number is very telling of your actual weight loss. Daily weights fluctuate so much that to compare one to another is useless. Weighing weekly solves this but with such few data points can mask the result. You may have averaged a 1 lb loss for the week but happened to weigh in on a day the weight fluctuated up and it made you think you lost no weight that week. If you are unlucky and that happens two weeks in a row, you may think your plan is failing when in reality you are simply unlucky with your weigh in day. Averaging daily weights solves all these issues.

Afura · April 2016

Personal preference. I used to weigh myself on Sunday's and sometimes on Wednesday, the last two weeks I've been weighing daily and putting it into WeightGrapher to see a trend.

dopeysmelly · April 2016

I weigh daily and log into HappyScale app to figure out the trends.

kgirlhart · April 2016

It's a personal preference. I weigh daily. But if the daily fluctuations bother you then weekly or monthly might be better. I would find weekly discouraging because sometimes it looks like I haven't lost or even gained a little if I look at one week ago, but since I weigh daily I see that even though my weight goes up and down it is trending downward on a graph. Plus if I am up a little one day I can see that maybe I had too much sodium the day before and I can make adjustments. Of course as a woman there will be certain times during the month that I will retain water and there is nothing I can do about it. If I were to only weigh on Monday then yesterday I would have seen that I was down .6 pound which I would be happy about. If I were weighing on Tuesday then today I would see that I was see that I was up .6 pound and I would probably be upset. But I can look at my trend and know that my weight is in fact going down.

briscogun · April 2016

Whenever you want to, but do it at the same time of day when you do weigh yourself. Most people do it first thing in the AM, and keep it consistent. So if you want to weigh weekly, cool. I would just recommend that you do it at the same time of day so you can get some consistency in your readings.

Other than that, its totally your choice!

hoffmierr · April 2016

Thanks so much everyone :-)

FitPhillygirl · April 2016

As a lifetime member, I only weigh in once a month at weight watchers.

Dana_E · April 2016

I weigh daily, first thing in the morning, because I like to see patterns for things like water retention. I know it can spike up several pounds in one day, and it doesn't bother me. I only log losses, though.

Rockchick09 · April 2016

When I had a scale I used it daily.. Turns out I was doing it wrong. It's much better to use the mirror, you're clothes and a measurement tape to track the fat loss.

Don't be to focused on you're weight or when to weight in, you'll gain muscles and loose fat but muscles are heavier

itsbasschick · April 2016

i weigh daily about an hour after i get up, but i also sometimes weigh at other times to see how things like workouts affect my body.

gothchiq · April 2016

Weekly, first thing in the AM, nude, after going to the can.

TxTiffani · April 2016

I weigh daily and plug numbers into happy scale. It shows your trend weight so even if you occasionally have an increase in weight it still shows your downward trend:)

CajunCher2005 · April 2016

Dana_E wrote: »

I weigh daily, first thing in the morning, because I like to see patterns for things like water retention. I know it can spike up several pounds in one day, and it doesn't bother me. I only log losses, though.

Exactly what I do.

pebble4321 · April 2016

tiffanifair wrote: »

I weigh daily and plug numbers into happy scale. It shows your trend weight so even if you occasionally have an increase in weight it still shows your downward trend:)

Yup, me too - the dots are actual weight, fluctuating day to day, the line shows the trend which is going in the right direction for me:

ericatoday · April 2016

Personally it depends on you. Me, i know weight loss is slow and steady but i do it everyday that way if i see ive gone up then i know to try harder.

Jelenajelenajelenajelena · April 2016

I weigh myself every day, except for the week I'm on my period, those days I pretend that I don't own a scale.

mtolose1 · April 2016

Sooo i used to weigh myself daily, and sometimes twice a day. Why? I dont know. Thwn i started getting discouraged as the scale wouldnt move. So i do it once a week now, kind of as a reward thing. Seems silly right? But i work hard that whole week, so even if it changes half a pound thats a success for me. Ive noticed my body changing more than the scale, i say dont let it discourage you.
Good luck!

LivingtheLeanDream · April 2016

Its a personal choice - some people like to weigh daily and chart that data on an app to see fluctuations.
Others prefer to weigh less often.
I'm a daily weigher, mostly because I know how my body works and how/when fluctuations happen.
If you can't take seeing the ups and downs of natural fluctuations then daily weighing is not for you.

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