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

When I was crazy on losing I would weigh myself everyday. Sometimes up to 4 times to get an idea on how I was going after everything but this time around I haven't. I want to feel like I'm losing first before I start weighing. Atm I feel weight shifting but I'm putting off actually jumping on the scale.

I do like weighing myself and hate it at the same time. When you see the numbers drop you get real excited. But when you see a slight change upwards or nothing at all you can't help but think "what have I done wrong? What am I doing?" And sometimes you're not doing anything wrong at all. It's just your body.

I have found I strive harder when I weigh though.

I use to weigh daily prior to getting dressed each morning...since November 2015. Recently I hid the scale so now I weigh once a week. I loved the fluctuations of the weight. I am maintaining my weight now and I do not want the stress of seeing the weight fluctuations each morning.

I'm attempting to only weigh myself weekly.

It's up to you...it doesn't really matter...ultimately you want to look at the trend over time, not the actual numbers themselves.

I weigh daily every morning and I love it. My TOM has always been ALL over the place, so weighing every day gives me advanced notice when it's about to show up. I know if I wake up and gain 3 - 5lbs it's either starting that day or very soon, and of course after it's over the 5lbs disappears. Other than that it's a nice indicator of how food is impacting my body and how well I'm progressing overall.

I like to weigh myself every day. I know that in the past I have obsessed over the numbers but now I simply like being able to see how different foods or changes in exercise effect my weight. I track it every day but only enable it to show up on my news feed once or twice a week.

It takes all of a minute to step on the scale and enter the number. If it was an hours long process that involved lots of pain and sweat, that would be a good reason not to do it often, but, really, that's not the case.

If you're just starting out, it's probably a good idea to start working on good habits.

People who have lost a lot of weight and kept it off weigh themselves at least once a week, on average. Lots of studies have shown this. When the weight starts creeping back up, they do something about it, it's how they avoid gaining it all back. If you're in this for the long haul and to succeed, it seems like a very good idea to have and use the tools you need to accomplish that.

I also weigh daily and record that # number the exercise notes. I log it in MFP once a week (Thursdays).

I weigh every Monday but this is because I would get upset with the different day to day loss or gain. Whatever makes you feel comfortable is the answer.

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.