How often do you weigh yourself?

tumbleweed00
tumbleweed00 Posts: 3 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
How often do you weigh yourself?

I have a love-hate relationship with my scale... And I'm afraid if I do it every day and I'm not seeing the progress I want, it'll be more hate than love.

Also, any other advice on learning to recognize NSV's is much appreciated. Feel free to add me-- 'm new and need friends!

Xo, Ashley
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  • 120goalzz
    120goalzz Posts: 5 Member
    Almost every day! But I try to do it once a week. It's not good cause I get so upset when the number isn't what I had hoped.
  • sunnysn2015
    sunnysn2015 Posts: 2 Member
    Best to weight yourself everyday in the morning before a meal but it won’t be a straight line trend it will go up and down everyday (this is not a bad thing its water weight), measure your waist line. Over weeks I can gain a pound of muscle and lose a pound of fat id still weight the same but the measuring tape will speak the truth.
  • alyssa0061
    alyssa0061 Posts: 652 Member
    Every day
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Every morning, and track my weight in Trendweight.com
  • cecsav1
    cecsav1 Posts: 714 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    Every morning, and track my weight in Trendweight.com

    Why Trendweight instead of MFP? Just curious.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    cecsav1 wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    Every morning, and track my weight in Trendweight.com

    Why Trendweight instead of MFP? Just curious.

    My weight gets added here too.

    Trendweight is a weight tracking app, it smooths out the fluctuations and tells you exactly how much you're losing every week. It eliminates the water retention noise.

  • MsBuzzkillington
    MsBuzzkillington Posts: 171 Member
    How?
  • 85Cardinals
    85Cardinals Posts: 733 Member
    edited May 2016
    Every hour on the hour. No, I hit it first thing every morning, although I probably should make that every 3 days or so, cause I think too much about it. And hell, I weigh what I weigh, me observing it doesn't change it. Like the physics thing!
  • itsbasschick
    itsbasschick Posts: 1,584 Member
    when i'm doing well, i weigh myself about every time i pass the scale. not so well? every week or two...
  • LisaKay91
    LisaKay91 Posts: 211 Member
    Too often. Probably 3-5x a week... I have been the same weight for the past 5 days. I weigh myself morning and night.. and I finally am 2lbs lower tonight than I was this morning. Curious if it will stick for tomorrow. I was really in a rut for the past 5 days about my weight not changing but now I am really excited to think the scale has moved.
  • narak_lol
    narak_lol Posts: 855 Member
    I weigh myself twice a day - first in the morning & after dinner.
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    3-4x a week with no really set schedule. I weighed daily when I was losing, but have backed off that a bit in maintenance
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    If you weigh in every day, track it on a weigh app so you can see the overall trend and that it is going downward.

    If you can't handle fluctuations which are normal then daily weigh ins are not for you, stick to once a week/fortnight.
  • fr33sia12
    fr33sia12 Posts: 1,258 Member
    I used to weigh myself once a week, but my scales broke, so won't be buying any for a couple of weeks, see how my weight loss goes and I'll just go by how I feel and how my clothes fit. As long as I have a deficit there's no reason why I shouldn't lose.
  • bellabonbons
    bellabonbons Posts: 705 Member
    I weigh Once a week. Daily weigh in's can be frustrating due to weight fluctuations depending on if I had foods with sodium the night before.
  • Rincewind_1965
    Rincewind_1965 Posts: 639 Member
    Twice a week (Wed / Sun).
    But I am comparing only values that are at least a week apart. This way flattening out "normal" disturbances.
  • opalquartz
    opalquartz Posts: 65 Member
    Every morning, and I use the app Happy Scale to keep track of how my weight is trending. After weighing myself daily for over 2 months now, it's easier to roll with the fluctuations that happen (and be more aware of what causes them). And it helps me know when I need to get my *kitten* together if I stall out or am gaining consistently for a week or so. I update MFP with new low weights.
  • linziicb
    linziicb Posts: 42 Member
    edited May 2016
    everyday, naked in the same spot so i can see that i'm on track and haven't done any damage the day before. i only record the weight i am every Saturday though.
  • valerieuk1708
    valerieuk1708 Posts: 90 Member
    I weigh myself daily too, been only on mfp for 40 days and lost 6.3 kilos overall. I use happy scale to record weight and see fluctuations but try and not let them bug me. Iv lost 0.2 kilos in a week which is less than my goal of 0.5 kilos but I know it's still good to see loss rather than gain or stay the same. Iv decided to measure myself to see if I at least lost inches and yes I did! 3"off my waist and 2" off my hips so I'm happy!
  • Gamliela
    Gamliela Posts: 2,468 Member
    Never. It messes with my motivation.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Every day, because of fluctuations. I don't understand them and they take me by surprise almost every time, but I'm not scared and not frustrated. The fluctuations just are. Not weighing myself contributed to my weight gain last time - I would pretend my clothes weren't really getting tighter, and at the same time lose motivation to eat well because I knew I was gaining weight anyway. Weighing daily keeps it real and un-dramatic. Ups and downs are sudden but stay within a range. I know I can't possibly gain a pound of fat from one day to the next. I will be able to stop any creep before it becomes a problem - and I'm very good at losing weight, so I'm not worried.

    No single reading has meaning on its own. Every week I calculate the average of last week, and this number determines if I need to be stricter or if I can add some treats or just do the same.
  • Russandol
    Russandol Posts: 71 Member
    Every day. I changed the unit on the scales to lbs (normally I'm all metric) so I wouldn't get so stuck on the number and let it determine how I feel about myself, plus I log the number in an app that calculates an average to smooth out the inevitable jags.
  • serialmahogany
    serialmahogany Posts: 42 Member
    amusedmonkey wrote: »
    MsBuzzkillington wrote: »
    How?

    It's basically a moving average of your last 20 days, so if your weight goes up drastically due to water retention or it feels like you are stuck at the same weight for a long period of time it doesn't have too much of an effect on your trend weight. It basically smoothes out any drastic changes to give you a clear idea in what direction your weight is currently heading.

    Here is how trendweight with entries looks:

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    See how my weight went up more than 2 pounds on may 21, if that happened to be the day I had my weekly weigh in I would be puzzled by the gain. But seeing the trend and how my weight is behaving as well as the direction the graph is pointing (down) assures me that I'm doing well.

    If more people utilized this we would see fewer "why am I not losing weight" threads.

    I also use this method.
  • oocdc2
    oocdc2 Posts: 1,361 Member
    Once a week, and I'm going to start using trendweight (thanks, @amusedmonkey and @Christine_72 !)
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    Just do what keeps you motivated and on track. I go through stages of not weighing..then weighing more often..and mostly just once a week.
    However, I might suggest you take photos.. I finally have done that.. that is proof if you're losing or not..better than the scale.
  • Raptor2763
    Raptor2763 Posts: 387 Member
    First thing in the morning, every morning

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