Benefits to weighing self everyday?

Yes, quite normal to gain or lose a pound (or more) in one day. The benefits to weighing everyday would be personal. If you like to do it then I suppose it would be a benefit. For some the fluctuations make them crazy.

If you are going to get depressed if you gain overnight it's probably not a good idea. The one benefit it does have is that when you do gain that pound (or two) overnight you know it's not fat, whereas if you weigh less often and happen to gain that pound (or two) the night before your weigh-in you don't have the lower weight from yesterday to comfort you.

Benefits will be noticing that fluctuations are normal- 1, 2, or even 3 pounds difference from day to day is not unusual depending on if you are watching your sodium intake, how regular your digestion is, and your workout schedule. If you use with a graph it might be good so you can see the overal trend is that you are losing, despite daily fluctuations.

The downside could be that you however might get too hung up on your number day to day- that's what happened to me when I wheighed daily. I started getting scale obsessed and would even do dumb stuff like sleep in longer and avoid drinking water at night or in the morning until I had weighed just so the number would be lower. It also would really affect my mood for the rest of the day if I hadn't lost or if I'd gained. So I had to switch to weekly weigh ins on Saturdays... and sometimes do a mid week check on Wednesday just because it's hard to go a whole week sometimes... weight still fluctuates but at least I'm not thinking about it every single day.

I like to see the trends, so I do weigh everyday. But I also see the plot and whether it is fitting the desired trend immediately after weighing when I enter it. Fluctuations of up to several pounds are normal. You have to ignore the weight loss/gain between single weigh-ins.



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(For me, it takes a 2 week buffer to smooth out any climbs).
In the table, you can see just how much your 1 week, 2 week, 4 week difference can vary from day to day, so I do like to see trends. (All weight data above are first thing in the morning after bathroom break).

nmedina10 wrote: »

What are the benefits of doing this?

The benefits of weighing everyday or even every 6 hours are so that you can see how much your weight fluctuates over time even with a solid weight loss plan in place.

It will be interesting...










... or an utter soul destroyer.

Only you will know which.

i love what MAZDAUK said she measures everyday. i like that better than weighing. weighing gets me depressed everyday too NMEDINA10. as i get closer to my long term goal weight i will weigh everyday but for now. measuring and weight once a week. i am setting my weight goal for only 10 lbs at a time. once i conquer the 10 pounds then i will set another 10 lbs. if you find 10 difficult set your goal for 5 pounds. you will have more goals and be happier. good luck.
i am setting up for a 40 day (LENT - march 1, 2017) weight loss.

I do it daily, because it helps me look at other correlations - how much salt did I take in the day prior; exercise level; how many steps; how was my sleep; is it that time of the month (or leading up to it) - it helps to provide (for me) a more holistic view of what can affect my weight

I weigh every day and at first it was scary but It has helped me to stay on track and evaluate my food choices/time of the month/recent workouts. I use the Libra Weight tracker app, it gives much of the same benefits as previous ones mentioned. When I have pizza or sushi, I can easily gain 5lbs overnight... but it usually falls off in a day or 2. It also helps me to start seeing the trends.

I never weighed myself daily before, but I heard people raving about it. It kept them accountable. Now, I have been weighing myself for a week, every single day. I understand the rationale for it. As a woman, I see my weight go up by 5 lbs in a week just with hormone fluctuations, so while I record my weight every day it's only a general reference point, and once I have 30 days of reference points I can actually see my REAL weight, how it is fluctuating by what I eat and what exercise I do, and make changes for a more successful weight loss plan.

I weigh every day on my Wii Fit, and only log new lows into MFP. I agree that you see daily numbers as more of a 'data point', which removes the stress/mind-games from it. For me, anyway. For some it could cause over-restriction to try to force the scale down-down-down every day, but I know that's impossible.

It also helps me get 'back on track' after a day of eating too much. Last time, I was up 0.9lbs the morning after a buffet, and then up 0.2 the next day too, and instead of thinking I was the worst fattest eat-beast ever, it made me realise it's because all that extra food had 'backed me up'. So once my system was back to normal, I was back to my normal weight, and then within a couple more days, I was down another 0.5lbs. I knew I hadn't just packed on 1.1lbs of fat literally in a 12-hour period from a 1000 calorie surplus (it takes 3500 calories to put on 1lb), so I knew there had to be other factors.

I weigh daily at the moment to give myself an idea of my trending weight lose. Then in a month (I'm only new here) I'll have a better understanding of how to adjust calorie intake to keep at a slow progressive loss.

I step on a scale every day at the gym but my official weigh-in is at home on Saturday mornings when I first get up. I have a nice Omron Body Composition scale. I use that for my full body comp and those are the results I post here on MFP. I don't see any benefit to doing the full comp daily. What's important is the long term trend and if one does it all right, that trend will be downward... or whatever direction your goals dictate.

I weigh a lot because it helps me know what I'm doing right and wrong. You can learn a lot from the scale, not just weight.