How often should you weigh yourself a week?
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newstart1988
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How often should you weigh yourself a week? My weight fluctuates when I weigh myself everyday and it kind of gets me down. Trying to figure out how many times a week I should.
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Sunday morning after my morning coffee does it's work haha5
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I weigh every day but track on a trending app - it evens out the fluctuations and shows me if I'm going in the direction I want to be going.
Daily fluctuations are normal - I would get more frustrated weighing less regularly but still having fluctuations, without the data of every day weighing to show how I was really doing.8 -
I don't think there is any "should" regarding the number of times to weigh yourself each week. You have to do what works for you, and if seeing normal daily weight fluctuations drags you down mentally, then change to every week or every few weeks. Although even weighing every few weeks, you still could randomly fall on a day where your weight is high for whatever reason.
Overall trending of your weight is what you want to watch. I use Trendweight, which is freely available and links automatically to FitBit (if you use that app). Trendweight, Happy Scale, etc...these apps enable you to see the big picture of what your weight is doing so that you don't get lost in the minutia of normal weight fluctuations.
Hope that helps!
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As often as makes you comfortable.0
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I weigh daily and use a trend app. Libra for Android. Happy scale for apple.2
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I weigh every day. Use libra and withings to get the trend. Sometimes the weight fluctuate
5lbs from day to day, but the trend is down.
Once a week would make me crazy. What if it's just a fluke and I have gained, or what if you dont see any change?6 -
As a contrarian, I think the opposite of most. As I got frustrated with the scale early, and before gaining knowledge, I decided to weigh myself more often (so I could learn what I was seeing and suspected). What that proved to me is two huge things:
1. My weight fluctuates dramatically either direction almost every day.
2. I have no idea when the whoosh or flush will come.
What that means to me is that I know my weight is a range and not a number. And because it's a range and not a number, and because I don't know where I am or in what direction I am in a fluctuation at any given moment, it does not matter one bit over the mid to long term when or how often I weigh myself.
The only thing that matters is what the 4-6 week trend says.5 -
I weigh myself several times a day. Partly so i can see the changes as I do things to understand how my body reacts and partly so i can make sure i never build up that fear of the scale.
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I weigh myself sunday morning after going to the toilet. Naked.2
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Weigh yourself as often as you need to get the data that you use. I weigh once per week just to make sure I catch myself if I start gaining weight. What I liked to do when I was losing weight was to have a weigh-in at the end of the week but I would step on the scale mid-week to see if I needed to make adjustments to make sure the scale continued to drop that week.1
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Whatever works for you. I found it helpful to understand the fluctuations and get over being emotionally bothered by them, as that had been an excuse for me to avoid the scale in the past, which made weight gain easier. For a while that meant weighing most days, and at minimum once a week. I think daily was easier, as once a week meant that I'd be more likely to be bothered by the result vs. knowing a fluctuation was water or the like.
IF you are finding that a daily fluctuation of a few lbs is really bothersome, that might be worth working on and getting over. But it's individual, so do what works for you.1 -
Weekly is enough for me.
But no 'should' about it - whatever works for you.
If you do it daily though, understand there will be fluctuations.0 -
I should weigh myself each day, that works out to 7 each week. I've learned to mostly expect the direction it's going to move so it doesn't depress me to see a number on a scale.0
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I weigh myself daily. That seems to work for me, and of course - naked, after going to the bathroom, ha ha.1
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Every Sunday! First thing in the morning. I used to do it everyday but my weight can fluctuate daily and then I never really appreciated what I'd lost on Sundays weigh in cause I'd already seen them numbers in the week.0
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I weigh daily, but the only time that counts for logging is Sunday AM, first thing, after using the bathroom. I've always weighed in my clothes (in this case, cotton nightgown and undies), so I may as well keep doing it, since if that's an extra half-pound or whatever, it's been there all along. (Probably a holdover from my WW days, when you weighed in at meetings and stripping down completely was kind of not done...)0
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I weigh daily, but for some it's too much. For some people even doing it weekly is too much and they prefer biweekly/monthly. It's up to you, as no matter how often you do it it's about the overall trend.1
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I weigh daily and often twice daily. Only log my 8am weight though - after bathroom break, before breakfast, in the same level of dress (naked) and MFP gets updated only when I lose. I have a different app for daily fluctuations.
Fluctuations don't bother me at all because I like to see the impact my water and food consumption and activity level has on my body and it shows in the difference between morning and bedtime weight or bedtime and following morning weight. It's minutiae but I am intrigued by it. I like to guess what my weight will be after I do ____ activity or eat ____ food. It's just cool info for me to see about my body.
There is no rule for this question. It is what you are most comfy with. If you are happiest with once weekly, do that. Once monthly, great. If you can do it every day then do that.0 -
At least 7 times a week, first thing in the morning plus I also weigh before/after a long, hard or hot cycle ride so I can estimate how much I have to re-hydrate.
To me it's just data. More data points the better to understand the trend. Fluctuations are to be understood rather than seek to over-control.1 -
Another vote for daily using a trend app.
I also like to weigh through the day for curiosity.
Like yesterday, I had a crazy busy day and ate about 1/2 my calories before bed.1
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