Obsessed with weighing myself

I think everyone does it in the beginning, even if they know that their daily activities (eating, drinking, not using the restroom in the last few hours) influence the number greatly. The important part is that you are aware of the existence of these factors and don't allow the result to screw with your progress, even if it causes a little anxiety.

That being said, if you really want to fix it, place yourself in situations where you don't have access to the scale. Get out of the house more, put the scale in a timed safe/leave it with a friend that you see weekly, or just throw it out entirely and resort to measuring your body fat percentage once a month. You could also just not weigh yourself. It's a habit you can break just like any other.

Have someone hide it and designate a specific day/time to weigh.

Weighing once a day is fine; anything more than that is useless, as your weight fluctuates now that you have food/liquid in your system. The key is to watch the overall trend (4-6 weeks) rather than between two consecutive points.

When i was losing weight i weighed myself many times a day. It helped me understand how my weight fluctuated throughout the day. I still weigh myself a few times a day...i don't see the sense in saying "it's bad to do" if you're mentally weak i guess it is.

OP I weigh every time I pass my scale too lol....but I try to refocus when I see gains and use it as motivation to keep going. I try not to obsess but in some weird way it fascinates me to see the normal ebb and flow of the day

Put the scale in the garage or a hard to get to place and forget about it for a couple of weeks.

Get off the scale! You will go nuts !

I used to be obsessed with the scale. What helped me was finding other ways to track my progress, like measuring inches, finding a piece of clothing in my closet that was just a tad too tight and trying to fit in it, etc.

I still weigh myself, but only on the 1st of every month. FOR ME, It is much more exciting to get on the scale once a month and see a large change, rather than teeny tiny little changes on a daily basis.

There's nothing wrong with weighing daily... If you're not going to get hung up on the perfectly normal fluctuations any person goes through. Take my past week and a half. I was at 293. The next day it was up 2lbs. Stayed at 295 and even fluctuated to 297. This morning I stepped on the scale and was at 289. So, there was a downward trend after fluctuation.

Let's not even get into TOM water retention...

I sometimes weigh at the end of the day just because of morbid curiosity. I know I won't be down from what I weighed in the morning, but it's neat to see how food and water temporarily change the scale. If you're bordering on obsession though, the behavior needs to be reeled in to the best of your ability. What I would suggest is also taking measurements. There are times you will lose inches without the numbers on a silly scale moving. Just be accurate with logging and results will happen.

I'm a daily weigher--for me, it works well. It gives me daily data which helps me see how my weight responds to my diet and activity. I weigh every morning, after I use the restroom, before I eat or drink anything. This way I know that I'm getting a consistent reading with minimal variables.

It also keeps me from placing too much importance on the number on the scale. When I was weighing once a week, I found that I was getting really upset if the number wasn't what I wanted. Now I know there will be ups and downs, and any one weigh-in doesn't really mean much in the scheme of things.

However, I don't see any benefit in weighing more than once a day. After you start eating and drinking, wearing clothes, being active, there are any number of things that effect weight. These readings are meaningless.

Try to weigh exactly once per day under controlled circumstances. If you can't do it, or find you're still obsessing over it, it might be time to go to once per week.

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Pity the poor weight scale. Forced to live on the floor and be stepped on by people...

And it's no wonder, because all the weight scale can tell you is - wait for it - your relationship with earth's gravity at that moment in time. Yes it's true. Move to the moon or Saturn and your numbers would be completely different. It cannot tell you whether you've been bad or good, naughty or nice. It cannot tell you your percentage body fat or other composition. It cannot tell you whether you are healthy or not. Republican or Democrat or Whig.

It's just a weight scale.

So, step on it if you want to. Daily if you'd like - it won't hurt you - but remember, where you are in life and how you are doing healthwise, require more subtle means to discern.

Love

Shame gets real deep, real fast. Self-loathing and blaming yourself for your weight affects more than just your progress — it also erodes your feeling of self-worth and your dignity. Shame isn’t a motivator. If stepping onto the scale makes you have negative thoughts about yourself, it’s a sign you need to ditch it. The number on it doesn’t say anything about your worth or value — it’s just a number, literally.

An app that tracks the trend of your weight helps a lot. Someone mentioned one above, but TrendWeight is another site. I weigh once a day in the morning when I first wake up. I figure more than that I'm just going to end up weighing the difference in my clothes, water weight, or poop my body has made throughout the day haha.