How often do you step on a scale?
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Daily, first thing in AM after bathroom, before food/water, in nothing but my glasses & watch. Have done that for years (probably a decade or more now?), even when not trying to lose weight. Do you sense a data geek?
The scale weight per se has never been a stressful thing, for me: It's just data.
For a long time, I logged it on graph paper, until I got a trending app (Libra, because Android).
Everyone once in a while I weigh myself at another time, either out of general curiousity about something, or as a "before and after heavy summer exercise" thing to make sure I'm drinking enough water in the heat.
When I started using MFP, I already had a very good intuitive understanding about what factors caused water weight fluctuations for me, and how long they'd last. That was helpful.0 -
I weigh daily as well, feel like it keeps me from just completely falling off the wagon!!0
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Daily, but just so I can input into trending app.
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daily, I like data.0
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am and pm. first thing and last thing0
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I weigh daily. I get up, use the restroom, weigh and log using Happy Scale. I'll weigh sometimes before and after exercise just for the sake of curiosity. In the summer I'll weigh after long bike rides as a measure of how well I'm hydrating.1
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Usually every couple of days. 2 days ago I was 3 pounds heavier than today, naked first thing in the morning after going to the bathroom both times. That's why I would not like weekly weigh ins. My recent trend actually says I weigh a pound more than today's weight. If I were weighing weekly on Tuesdays, I would probably be stressing about a weight gain that didn't really happen, if I were weighing weekly on Thursday I might be celebrating a bigger drop than actually happened. I am in maintenance but trying to drift lower in my range right now to leave a buffer for Christmas. I am slowly trending down.0
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Daily - to me it's data not emotion.
I just keep a casual eye on trends and don't fuss about perfectly normal day to day fluctuations.0 -
Every morning immediately after taking care of - ahem - morning business1
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Once every couple of weeks... sometimes less, sometimes more. Lol1
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Just wondering how often do you weigh yourself? I think I weigh myself almost daily but some people say I should do it at the beginning & end of the month. What is your normal?
I do it every day, unless I forget, or an traveling and don't have one. I have almost daily weights going back 4 or 5 years, on a chart, it's cool to look at.
You shouldn't take those people's advice. Everybody's weight jumps around in ways that look random. Hope much water you have, if you had a big meal that's traveling slowly, all kinds of things. If you weigh yourself twice a month, all of those stuff can throw you off. If you weigh yourself every day, you can use a tending app (or Excel) and have a better idea what's going on.2 -
I’m maintaining since the first of October and still weigh myself every morning.0
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Mostly each day. Less mostly not each day.1
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Never. It’s just all in how I feel and clothes feel on me3
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3 times a day.
When I get up, when I get home from work and right before I go to bed. The morning weigh in is the only one that counts though.0 -
Daily first thing after I use the potty, no clothes. It's consistent, works for me and by logging it keeps me accountable.1
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Twice a day. Once in the morning post-bathroom, and once right before bed. Seeing the fluctuation from the previous evening lets me know how my body is holding water. Sometimes it's a 2-3 lb fluctuation, sometimes it's as much as 5. The morning is what I consider my "real" weight.0
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I go nuts if I don't weigh myself at least 4 times per week. I know small weight fluxuations aren't anything to worry about. Just knowing my weight often makes me feel good.0
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Once a week Sunday morning here. I tried more often but it was up and down more than a frat house toilet seat. I couldn't focus on anything else.3
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Daily, same Bat time, same Bat channel, around 6:00 am.
I’m a numbers guy.1
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