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    How often do you log your weight?

    Posts: 10 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    This is my first week so I know the first few pounds was water weight, but Im still dropping 1 lb a day. For a change, I'm actually excited to step on the scales everyday!!

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    • Posts: 281 Member
      I use Happy Scale also to log my weight daily and then log it on MFP every time I have a new lowest weight
    • Posts: 1,094 Member
      I only weigh myself once per month so that's when I do it.
    • Posts: 115 Member
      I weigh myself daily (sometimes twice- once in the morning, once at night just to see the pattern in the difference at the start and end of the day) I log my morning weight every morning in my happy scale app ( seeing the downward trend is so fun!) and then I log in MFP or Fitbit when I have a new low.
    • Posts: 3,985 Member
      I weigh/log every day. I've been at this for years, so the readings don't phase me anymore.
    • Posts: 5,727 Member
      3 or 4 times a day. I need to try to remember to get happyscale going so I can watch the fluctuasians.
    • Posts: 3,103 Member
      I get on the scale daily when I wake up. The Aria WI-Fi scale then uploads it to FitBit and fitBit syncs to MFP. I never have to do anything and get to look at the graphs to see the trends.
    • Posts: 10 Member
      I need to check out happy scales app!
      Im also weighing daily so I can quickly find out what i did wrong the previous day so I can correct
    • Posts: 1,572 Member
      ksedge wrote: »
      This is my first week so I know the first few pounds was water weight, but Im still dropping 1 lb a day. For a change, I'm actually excited to step on the scales everyday!!

      Every day.
    • Posts: 28 Member
      edited May 2017
      I've been using MyFitnessPal for more than three years and I still get on the scale and enter my weight every single day even though I've only been maintaining for over a year after getting well below my goal weight.

      I'm a statistics nerd, though, so I love filling the graph with data. :)
    • Posts: 115 Member
      ksedge wrote: »
      I need to check out happy scales app!
      Im also weighing daily so I can quickly find out what i did wrong the previous day so I can correct

      Even if you are up a few ounces or even a pound or two the next day, that doesn't mean you didn't anything wrong. I have some days where I'm up 2 or 3 lbs and then down the next couple days. Weight loss is not linear- that's why it's fun to get the app and watch that trend!
    • Posts: 10 Member
      Thanks, i will check it out.
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      I never log it here...I use another app and I log it every time I weigh in.
    • Posts: 592 Member
      edited May 2017
      I weigh daily at the same time, but only log my weight after it has remained around the same for a few days. I have an analog scale and the reading is to the nearest pound.
      ksedge wrote: »
      I need to check out happy scales app!
      Im also weighing daily so I can quickly find out what i did wrong the previous day so I can correct

      If I were just starting out, I probably would weigh myself and log much less often than daily. Weight naturally fluctuates a lot for all kinds of reasons. In my case, I've seen it change significantly throughout a single day based on all kinds of things that aren't diet mistakes (drinking a glass of water, not having drunk water for an hour or two, going to the bathroom, taking a shower, etc.) It can be challenging to try to track all the changes and try to make sense of them.
    • Posts: 418 Member
      I log everyday but look for the trends. I dont freak out over the daily movements but I look for the longer term trends.
    • Posts: 36 Member
      I usually only weigh myself once per week on Saturday mornings. Sometimes I might weigh myself mid-week, but not usually.
    • Posts: 35,775 Member
      BurlzGettingFit wrote: »
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      Even if you are up a few ounces or even a pound or two the next day, that doesn't mean you didn't anything wrong. I have some days where I'm up 2 or 3 lbs and then down the next couple days. Weight loss is not linear- that's why it's fun to get the app and watch that trend!

      So true!

      I like to weigh daily (first thing, after bathroom, before eating/drinking), because it helps me understand what causes my weight fluctuations, thus worry less about them. (Causes can include water weight from a new workout, extra sodium or carbs (even if a healthy level, just more than usual), time of month for women, healing from an injury, and more.)

      And one pound a day weight loss (!) is very fast, if it continues past the initial fast water-weight loss of the first couple of weeks . . . possibly unhealthily fast, unless you're very obese. 1% of body weight loss per week is a healthy target for most people. Losing too fast risks losing unnecessary loss of muscle and bone alongside fat loss, and those are slow/hard to regain.

      BTW: Happy Scale works on Apple devices, Libra works for Android, Trendweight is more platform-independent, and I'm sure there are others.
    • Posts: 210 Member
      Every morning, and then I write it on my calendar.
    • Posts: 2,383 Member
      I weigh everyday but only record on MFP when there's a loss. I dunno why, I guess it just makes me feel better lol.
    • Posts: 823 Member
      Another Happy Scale user here, so daily! I'll log my weight weekly into MFP, though.
    • Posts: 9 Member
      Every morning. My wife thinks I'm crazy and said it would drive her nuts, but for me, it's a good a reminder of how much weight fluctuates. As long as the overall trend is way you want it to go (depending on goals), no harm IMO. I'm syncing with Fitbit's App, and I do like on their that they will tell you the average for the week.
    • Posts: 396 Member
      Daily for me as well. First thing in the morning after using the bathroom before getting my day started. Fluctuations are going to happen... but weighing daily has allowed me to get to know how my body responds around my TOM and more. Some people get discouraged and simply find it better for them to weigh less often. For me, it gives me more 'drive' to keep pushing harder if the scale doesn't read as I may hope.

    • Posts: 11,463 Member
      ksedge wrote: »
      I need to check out happy scales app!
      Im also weighing daily so I can quickly find out what i did wrong the previous day so I can correct

      It doesn't really work that way. Weight naturally fluctuates high up &down even when doing everything perfectly. Problems may not show up on the scales for 1 to 5 days. It's great to weigh daily, I do, but make sure you're interpreting the data correctly.
    • Posts: 2,343 Member
      Every day or few days. I downloaded the Happy Scale app so I'll now don't daily. I'm good with the fluctuations so I don't mind
    • Posts: 2,846 Member
      I weigh myself pretty much every day out of curiosity, then log the actual weight once a week. :)
    • Posts: 2,246 Member
      Every morning in Libra.
    • Posts: 2,343 Member
      gebeziseva wrote: »
      Every morning in Libra.
      Is this an app?
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