Weigh-In every morning

tamgraham1966 · November 2016

I can't get out the habit of standing on the scales EVERY morning. Knowing I have lost the tiniest amount each day gives me the motivation to keep going. I've lost 40 lbs in 66 days so it's working for me.
I'm curious as to how many other members weigh themselves every day.

noddy230983 · November 2016

I do. It helps me keep at it when I can see the fluctuations caused by different foods/drinks the day before. It is very satisfying to see the bloat from the weekend reducing daily back to normal!!

I log my Thursday weight as a general rule to ensure that I am comparing myself at the same point each week.

I feel that weighing daily keeps my motivation up, rather than jumping on once a week and beating myself up for not losing anything without understanding previous fluctuations leading into my official weigh day.

barni71 · November 2016

I weigh every morning but I am aware that over the weekend the scales will go up a bit but as long as by the following Friday morning that extra weight (and hopefully a bit more) has come off then I'm happy.

Machka9 · November 2016

I've been weighing myself just about every morning for the past 30 years. I see no reason to stop.

kommodevaran · November 2016

tamgraham1966 wrote: »

I can't get out the habit of standing on the scales EVERY morning. Knowing I have lost the tiniest amount each day gives me the motivation to keep going. I've lost 40 lbs in 66 days so it's working for me.
I'm curious as to how many other members weigh themselves every day.

Nothing wrong with weighing every day, but do it right and for the right reasons.

Your body is a living organism, food and drink and air goes in, waste, sweat and carbon dioxide goes out. This sets your body weight in a constant fluctuation, so your body weight will always be a range, never a number.
This natural, normal, fluctuation can be several pounds in a day or a few days.
When you lose weight, the amount of fat you can lose, is no more than 1% of your total body weight per week.
Weekly weigh-ins can easily mask weekly fat loss.
You can't really tell if you've lost weight (fat) until you have a month of reliable data.

So why would you want to weigh yourself even more frequently?

To get as many reliable data points as possible.
To desentitize yourself around the whole "weigh-in" business.
To stay focused on doing the right things every day, to make good choices more often than bad choices.
Waiting to see the results can make you think you can wait to make good choices too.
You can pick up trends much faster than if you weigh more infrequently, and small gains are easier to deal with than large gains.

What to NOT do if you choose to weigh every day:

Weigh yourself more than once daily, or on different scales, or with different amounts of clothes, or on different times of the day. Pick one scale and one routine.
Adjust intake daily depending on what your scale said. As mentioned, real weight changes are small and slow. You need to stay consistent and be patient and calm, but also realistic and ready to intervene when you see that it's necessary. This is a balancing act, in its truest meaning.

vagonbrei · November 2016

I go with a weekly weigh in. I find it gives me a chance to workout any slip ups in during the week.

elisa123gal · November 2016

I'm a fan of weighing every day once at goal.. to make sure the pounds don't creep. As for weighing during weight loss it becomes a personal thing, Real slow progress on the scale can demotivate and give some of us a reason to quit or self sabotage. Others get motivated by lack of progress.

Right now I don't weigh... I will at some point when I am closer to my goal and I know it won't affect my determination. I'm thinking of weighing on day 125 of my fitness journey. That's about 30 days away.. i'm down a size since I started.

trigden1991 · November 2016

Daily weigh ins for me too!

BeastField · November 2016

noddy230983 wrote: »

I do. It helps me keep at it when I can see the fluctuations caused by different foods/drinks the day before. It is very satisfying to see the bloat from the weekend reducing daily back to normal!!

I log my Thursday weight as a general rule to ensure that I am comparing myself at the same point each week.

I feel that weighing daily keeps my motivation up, rather than jumping on once a week and beating myself up for not losing anything without understanding previous fluctuations leading into my official weigh day.

This is exactly how I do it. I used to only weigh in once, and if I didn't lose, or gained, never had an understanding as to why. Now i just look back on yesterday.

ekubo42 · November 2016

tamgraham1966 wrote: »

I can't get out the habit of standing on the scales EVERY morning. Knowing I have lost the tiniest amount each day gives me the motivation to keep going. I've lost 40 lbs in 66 days so it's working for me.
I'm curious as to how many other members weigh themselves every day.

I do the same as well. I have been logging my weight into a spreadsheet. The graph spikes up and down but it's slowly going down.

sijomial · November 2016

Nothing wrong with daily weighing.
There's a lot wrong with letting the number you see on the scales make or ruin your day though!

Would caution that when people get to maintenance it's not unusual for people to miss the reward of seeing "progress".

Second cautionary note - that's a very, very fast rate of loss. Hope that's not driven by wanting to see progress daily?

crzycatlady1 · November 2016

I've been a daily weigher for years and it's part of my maintenance plan.

Meghanebk · November 2016

I do it, mostly because I'm new and fascinated by the process of tracking and losing weight. But I also know that minor weight fluctuations up won't freak me out. I like to track it and figure out what might have caused it. Who knew sodium really does affect water retention

I'll probably drop to once a week in a month or two.

That is a huge amount of weight in a very short time. I hope you have some medical supervision?

bigmuney · November 2016

I do it twice a day

CooCooPuff · November 2016

I weight after the first trip to the toilet. Trendweight is neat

avskk · November 2016

I weigh every day. It just keeps me motivated, and it helps me keep track of my normal fluctuations.

bfanny · November 2016

tamgraham1966 wrote: »

I can't get out the habit of standing on the scales EVERY morning. Knowing I have lost the tiniest amount each day gives me the motivation to keep going. I've lost 40 lbs in 66 days so it's working for me.
I'm curious as to how many other members weigh themselves every day.

Why do you want to give it up if is working for you???

lisalewis7588 · November 2016

I weigh daily and log it in the Libra app. I know some people get caught up in the daily fluctuations but I never have. As long as my trendline is still heading in the right direction, I'm happy.

SDB210 · November 2016

I weigh every day too. If I've had a good day previously and kept to my calorie goal I actually wake up and feel excited to get on the scale. And even if I've had a not so good day previously, I know to expect it to be up a bit and I feel quite happy if it's not jumped up as much as I expected. It really doesn't bother me when it spikes up a bit because I have the trend tracked on happy scale.
Oh and I also get reeally excited when it's stayed the same for a few days as I know I'm about to get a big woosh downwards coming very soon!

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