To weigh or not to weigh ......everyday!

I weigh daily. First thing in the morning after using the restroom and before eating or drinking anything. I use a trend app to even out the fluctuations. I like weighting daily. I never dread weigh ins. It is just part of my routine like brushing your teeth. As long as my trend is going down then I'm happy. I just log my weight into mfp when it is a new low weight. I used Happy Scale when I started and then I switched from an iphone to a samsung so I got Libra. I like happy scale better.

When I stop weighing regularly, I tend to gain weight because I become slack in my eating. So I'm weighing everyday during this process

This truly is a question of personal preference. From a scientific standpoint in a data collection standpoint the more data points the more accurate and precise the data will be obviously this would mean when yourself every day at the same time. Typically for most people that means first thing in the morning after using the restroom. However if you over eat the night before or something like that it may have an adverse effect on your mental condition during the fat loss journey. For me personally if this happens I typically will not stand on the scale for 24 to 48 hours to allow my body to digest the food and to get back on the horse. This is ultimately your decision though.

From there I take the seven daily weighins and average them to a weekly number and compare that number week to week.

I think weighing yourself once a week is to an accurate of a data point to see where the results are headed.

Why do you have pointed out this can be a big controversy among the gorillas which is what makes fitness so interesting. This is because at the same time fitness is a science that can be backed up with empirical data yet is also an artform as because each person is so different and and there are many ways to achieve the same results through different routes. Fitness really boils down to seeing what works best for you and is it achieving the results you want. You can always try both approaches and see which one works best for you.

Like some others have said, I weigh daily. I do this because I get a better idea of how my eating, especially sodium and alcohol, affect my weight, as well as how hormonal changes impact it on a day-to-day basis. Knowing how much water I tend to retain from these things, as well as from muscle recovery after a strenuous workout, helps keep me from getting discouraged if I see the scale go up when I've been maintaining a deficit - I can step back and remind myself "hey, the scale went up 5lb because you had a heavy lifting day and also ate a bunch of Chinese food," or something similar.

But it really is personal preference. If you find that you get caught up on the scale weight and it is negatively impacting your mood and emotional state, you might want to regulate how often you weight yourself, because if you only weigh once a week you're more likely to see an overall drop than you would if you weight every day, because of the daily weight fluctuations I mentioned earlier. But you also have to keep in mind that weight loss is not linear - you can be doing every single thing exactly right for days or weeks, and the scale may still not move. It will, eventually, but if you get too stuck on that number, seeing the scale hold steady might make you want to give up, even when you're making good progress.

I'd encourage you to consider taking measurements with a measuring tape every two weeks or so, and also taking progressive pictures once a month or so - it's good to have a variety of metrics to gauge your progress by, so that you are less likely to feel defined by one number.

ETA: even though I weigh in every day, I only update my weight in MFP once a week or so, again because daily fluctuations are so common.

When I first started in January 2016 for the first two months I only weigh myself once every two weeks. To me this is the best approach. you have to get into a mindset that this is a long-term journey and not a short-term Sprint.

Remember when you put the weight on you didn't weigh yourself everyday and you didn't gain all the weight at once so the same thing is going to happen now that you've decided to lose it.

On the other hand now that I have reached my goal weight and I have access to scales at work I weigh myself daily. The only reason I'm doing this is part of the education process as I'm going into a maintenance. What I mean by an education process is I'm more curious to see how my body weight fluctuates on a day-to-day basis. I'm not worried about gaining cuz I know I've developed the proper habits.

I try to not weigh myself daily because a) we can gain an absurdly amount of water weight in a given day and b) it becomes an obession and negative behavior for me. So! If I remember then I do so weekly.

Numbers are going go up and down minus and plus a few pounds but that's water weight. Don't stress or celebrate over a few pounds. What you want to do is weight yourself once a week around the same time and try to wear similar clothes. I also weigh myself in the nude.

I've been thinking about this lately as well.
I'm thinking of tracking my weight everyday for a month to see what happens... I've also fallen into the 'I can eat this and burn it off before my weigh in' trap!