Time/Weighing Scale

geminigemz90
geminigemz90 Posts: 305 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Why when weighing it has to be the same time on the same day every week. Why is weighing at the right time important.

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  • ladyhusker39
    ladyhusker39 Posts: 1,406 Member
    To get consistent data.
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  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    Understand that your "weight" is never 100% accurate. Your body will fluctuate through normal processes. So trying to get it "right" is chasing your tail.

    But you want to get it as consistent as possible, and look at the trend more than an individual reading. So you want to remove as many inconsistencies as you reasonable can.

    So, first thing, after peeing, as close to naked as you are comfortable and just repeat. I do daily, but if you want to weigh weekly, the same suggestions apply. Once you've had your coffee, breakfast etc. You are now carrying added food weight that will likely vary from day-to-day. And weighing later in the day just makes it worse.

    Bear in mind, food does have an impact. Pizza will bump my weight up for 3 days or so. Sushi (more the soy sauce) will do the same for a couple of days. Even if I'm eating at my goal calories.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited October 2017
    If you have any kind of routine to your day/week, the same point in this routine will give the least variance in all the different factors that influence your weight, minus the genuine fat loss/gain. You eat and drink and eliminate waste, your muscles retain and release water, and those things weigh something. When your stomach and bladder is empty, you are in control of all the elements you can control. Still, you need a long row of these comparable datapoints, to see the trend through the noise.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited October 2017
    You can weight any time of the day. Assuring your conditions in which you weigh are the same so you get an accurate trend in your weight.
  • sindrealmost
    sindrealmost Posts: 1 Member
    To get consistent data, you could either do as others have suggested, log it once a day at approx. The same time and same conditions, ie. in the morning after a visit to the toilet but before breakfast or get multiple data points at regular times during the day, average them out and use the daily average. This way you can also calculate daily delta etc.
  • Lisa8823168
    Lisa8823168 Posts: 139 Member
    Some days...I am obsessed with the scale...usually days I am struggling to stay the course for the results I want. My brain twists around and I want the "days suffering" to show me it is worth it...every micro tic on the scale. It is like swapping obsessive compulsive stress eating for scaling/weighing...I know, its crazy- don't judge!

    My dream scale would lock me out...only allowing to weigh on a schedule, not every day, and between certain hours of the day...but then my dream is to have a perfect 10 body too with out doing the work! :wink:
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    as others have said you want consistency.

    most of those of us who have been doing this succesffuly for years now, weigh the same time every day or week (depending on your own preferences). i weigh myself daily. first thing in the morning, ebfore i eat anything, after i use the bathroom. i log on friday mornings.

    you could weigh at 5 pm on the 5th of the month every month and its fine.

    you could weigh at noon every day and log it

    its all about consistency. it helps eliminate fluctuations and gives you a more....balanced overview.
  • tracymegan
    tracymegan Posts: 391 Member
    Consistency. The best time is usually first thing in the morning as soon as you have used the bathroom. That way you have had hours of sleep and have emptied the bladder (an bowels, if it applies). This is when I weigh every day
  • Redordeadhead
    Redordeadhead Posts: 1,188 Member
    You've asked similar questions before about when and how often to weigh yourself. Did you read those answers?

    It's up to you, do it as often and whenever you like. You just need to understand that weight fluctuates throughout the day/week for a number of reasons and that's completely normal. Using a weight trend app like Libra will help you see the overall trend.
  • need2belean
    need2belean Posts: 359 Member
    geminigemz90 wrote: »
    Do you still look at the scale even though you change the time you weigh

    Because one day I weighed in the morning at 166lbs and when I got to the doctor's office after breakfast and lunch, I was at 171. Not only is her scale different, but the weight on her scale shows that I've eaten food and drank a gallon of water that day and I have clothes on. That's why it's important not to get hung up on the scale number even if you do weigh at the same time and place every day because weight fluctuates like crazy.
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  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    geminigemz90 wrote: »
    I been doing well lately & do not want to change the time I weigh myself.

    Then why ask the question?

    As everyone has said, pick a consistent time that works for you and stick to it over time, and you can track your progress.

    Have you tried reading some of these helpful posts? You might want to do that and then have better questions to ask.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300319/most-helpful-posts-general-diet-and-weight-loss-help-must-reads#latest

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