How often do you weight yourself?
MoreFitLessFat
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I'm struggling with how often I should weight myself. I think I'd go insane doing it daily. I usually do it weekly, but being a woman that fluctuates a lot because of my period. But also, monthly is waaaay too big of a gap to wait. How about yourself? How often do you weight yourself?
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I weigh daily and track it in a trend app. It allows me to see past the fluctuations to make sure the overall trend is down.4
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I weight myself daily and average the total at the end of the week.2
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I try to weigh myself weekly but I tend to crack and weigh every 5 days. I like doing that.1
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Every other day or so. Lol1
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Every day or second day. If i miss going to the toilet first thing in the morning i don't bother weighing in that day.7
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Every day. The cold trek to the bathroom in my birthday suit to weigh in wakes me up. I don't log it, however unless there's been a big change up or down. (In maintenance)1
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Every day. After 2-1/2 years of this, I’m way past the emotions of it. It’s just data. If I’m up for 3+ days running, I dial back the calories a little3
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Every day for me too.
It's taught me the ebb and flow of my body - I don't freak out any more when I lose 3.5 lbs after a long walk and gain it all back by bedtime.
I actually find it pretty interesting.
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Every day. It took the emotion out of it once I started doing it as part of my routine and saw that things go up and down often with no real reason.
When I used to weigh once a week it was too easy to forget, too. It's just a data point, like @nowine4me said.3 -
Once a week2
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Daily and track it on a trend website. It's fun on those days when scale weight goes up while the trend weight goes down at the same time.1
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I was doing it once a week at our gym at work, fully clothed but before eating or drinking. I was too emotional about it to have a scale at home.
I finally broke down and bought a scale for home. It’s downstairs away from easy access in the morning, so it’s too inconvenient to weigh every day. So I weigh once or twice a week on a morning I don’t feel like I have a lot of water weight. I can tell if I’m retaining water if my rings are tight.
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Daily, and sometimes I step on again later in the day just out of curiosity. I only update MFP if I’ve lost, so sometimes I go two weeks weighing every day and not “counting” it, then over the next few days I’ll suddenly lose a couple of pounds. As long as I get to enter losses sometimes I know I’m moving in the right direction, no matter what the scale says on any particular day.1
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I was doing it everyday but found myself obsessing over it, now it's about once a week.1
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Daily. The more data points, the quicker you spot a trend up, down or even. One number doesn't mean much to me over the course of 30 in a month. But I don't bother looking at a graph of a week, only month and longer timeframe.3
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Not daily, but a lot. I have learned how what I eat and/or activity level impact my daily weight. So I have this weird thing that I check every once in a while.
If I go to bed and weight around 1.5-2 pounds heavier than when I woke up, then I will maintain. But for cutting, then I only want to be a max of 1.5 pounds heavier unless I'm doing a bunch of cardio and therefore also increasing my water.
It's super random, no science behind it at all. But it's worked for me and keeps me from being a slave to the scale or feeling like I'm always hungry.1 -
daily using trendweight and happyscale for monitoring. my scale syncs to mfp, but the mfp graph is all over the place and i just ignore it usually.1
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Whenever I feel like it, but I only "officially" weigh myself for the record once a week.4
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Daily and track it on a spreadsheet which calculate mt trends.1
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Daily, but I don't put much weight in the #'s I use weekly measurements and a fat caliper as the real gauge of how my routine is going. The scale fluctuates too much, but it gives me an idea of how I did nutritionally... maybe I didn't hydrate enough, maybe too much sodium, processed carbs, etc.1
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Daily, but I record only on Tuesday. Informally in my head I keep track of the highs and lows. I can easily have a two to five pound change from day to day, but the lows and highs are fairly consistent. Weighing weekly wouldn't work for me, as with only one data point, I wouldn't know if I was looking at a high or a low.1
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Most mornings, but I have an "official" recording day on Sunday mornings.
The day to day fluctuations help me accept the trend better and within a week I can get a +/-2kg range. As long as the overall trend is downwards I'm OK.
Best not to look at week to week comparisons though, but where you were 4/5 weeks ago.
I spend more time logging intake and output, recording them on a spreadsheet and running a calculation to estimate where I should be. That helps identify if I'm getting logging errors, and also allows me to look at days where I've done better, or worse and ask why.
I prefer to focus on the things I can can control, rather than the outcome.1 -
I weigh daily but only record once a week. I find it keeps me focused and on track.1
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1x/week maximum, mostly 1x/3months , it really changes1
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Monthly(ish). I prefer to go off measurements and how my clothes are fitting. If I do it weekly for instance, and I've not lost weight, it disheartens me, even though i know I've built and constantly building muscle I still think "I'm doing all this for nothing!". So I leave a good few weeks before I weigh myself now.1
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I unfortunately have the bad habit of weighing myself several times a day. I've gotten over it now but before I was so scared that the scales would be wrong that I used three scales and stepped on each of them three times, added it all up and divided by nine to get what I considered a reliable number... I really wish I could stop weighing myself so much, once a week or maybe every other week would be nice. It's not pleasant having your life ruled by the number on the scale each day .2
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I use a body composition scale that gives me weight % fat and %muscle. I use it daily first thing in the AM after voiding my bladder and before eating or drinking anything. I turn the % values into fat mass and muscle mass.
I calculate 7 day and 30 day moving averages and this is what I consider not the daily readings.
A 7 or 30 day moving average is simply the last 7 or 30 days readings averaged out.
I have been doing this for a long time and the graphs clearly show that almost all my weight fluctuation is due to changes in fat mass with only a little additional muscle gain. There is virtually no change in the mass of the balance ( i.e. bones, skin, guts and gastric contents) over the time I have been using the system. On a daily basis the majority of the fluctuation is in the balance up and down but that disappears when I look at the moving averages.2 -
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Christine_72 wrote: »Every day or second day. If i miss going to the toilet first thing in the morning i don't bother weighing in that day.
I hardly ever go to the toilet0 -
I take a daily measure in the morning using Happy Scale to get moving averages for an overall picture, but I do one "official" weigh in a week, in the evenings, that I record in MFP.
That way, I get a good moving picture with the Happy Scale measures, and having my official weigh in at a heavier time of day, I get a dose of realism too, so I can see how close I really am to my goals.2
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