Do you weigh yourself when you KNOW you've gained?

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  • LauraInTheWater
    LauraInTheWater Posts: 477 Member
    I weigh in every day too. I find it helpful to let me know how my mistakes and successes affect me on a daily and weekly basis. I enjoy it even when I gain a little bit of weight because then I know what I did wrong so I won't do it in the future.
  • Lizakabibbis
    Lizakabibbis Posts: 370 Member
    I was weighing every single day to the point where I was obsessed. Now I weigh once a month. It's actually refreshing to not be a slave to the scale.
  • Penthesilea514
    Penthesilea514 Posts: 1,189 Member
    Daily so that Happy Scale makes pretty charts and graphs :) And to increase understanding of how much my body weight actually does fluctuate.
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    Another daily weigher here. I like having the data and seeing the trends.

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  • MsHarryWinston
    MsHarryWinston Posts: 1,027 Member
    Meh. I'm solidly in a deficit so I have no need to weigh myself every day. I keep really tight tracking with a decent sized deficit. I already know that I retain a lot of water really easily and a huge amount around that TOM. I feel no need to track that because it will just annoy me. So I weigh at least once a week but with no real pattern about it and only update my drops.
  • SiegfriedXXL
    SiegfriedXXL Posts: 219 Member
    I weigh every day and enter that into a weight tracker. I enter my Wednesday weight into MFP as it's allowed whatever excess salt from the weekend I consumed to leave the system.
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    I weigh every couple days. I RECORD it when I lose
  • evilpoptart63
    evilpoptart63 Posts: 397 Member
    Nope. I'm ashamed!
  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,213 Member
    Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Today I went out with friends and ate a little too much. Tomorrow I will probably weigh myself. If however, I have eaten more calories than normal because I'm stressed or upset, I often don't weigh in the next day. I know my weight will be up, why do something that might dampen my spirits when I'm looking to get back to normal mental health wise?

    Sidesteel had a good thread about this. His answer was "it depends". I can't honestly remember if his reasoning was not to weigh in if it's going to upset you or if I decided that on my own. I'll see if I can find the thread.
  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,213 Member
    @SideSteel
    Found this:
    SideSteel Member
    August 19, 2015 11:16PM
    It depends.

    If you don't have any issues (mentally) with weighing then you could weigh in daily and take an average of those daily weights across the week. Then compare week to week averages to get an idea of which direction your weight is trending.

    Averaging those daily values will smooth out the day to day fluctuations that occur naturally.

    That being said, if you get a bit stressed out seeing those day to day fluctuations then that's a good reason to weigh in less frequently, in which case you'd want to strike a balance between getting enough data points (weigh in values) and not exposing yourself to that stress too often.

    An alternative could be to select 2 or 3 days per week that you weigh in, but keep those steady from week to week and weigh under identical circumstances.
  • Daddyspepper
    Daddyspepper Posts: 33 Member
    I have definitely skipped weigh ins when I know the results won't be favorable. I don't advise it though because it has allowed me to not be accountable for my choices. Stick with it!!
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