I am all for daily weigh-ins! For me, it holds me accountable on a daily basis. Others I have heard it discourages them; however, it doesn’t for me. I like to know wher I am at everyday, especially when I am trying to lose weight and achieve my goal!
I know others disagree, what do you think? Do you prefer daily or weekly weigh-ins?
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A lot of people get discouraged because they don't understand normal and natural weight fluctuations and they don't understand why they've done everything right (which they have) and the scale went up a pound or two from the day before and don't understand that it has nothing to do with them, but rather, simple physiology.
Weighing daily helps me adhere to my calorie deficit.
I did it for a few months - weigh every day and iPeriod updates and discovered things like I have a ravenous beast hungry day about 7 days before my period, I get this woosh of weight loss the day before I get bloated just before my period - seriously - like i'll drop a kilo bam from the day before and then the day after it will be like 2 kilos up. And sometimes when that special day pops up on my official weigh in day (Friday) it makes it seem like i had this wonderful week and lost so much when in reality it's some weird thing my body does every month.
I'm not doing it at the moment but it was a very interesting data gathering exercise to do that for about 4 months I think I did it.
When I don’t weigh daily, I just start lying to myself and slipping up. Weighing daily keeps me accountable and I don’t stress about the fluctuations - I know what’s just a normal fluctuation vs real gains where I need to start reevaluating my choices. Plus, I like having the data and I like that Happy Scale gives me predictions of when I’ll hit my next goal or my ultimate goal weight.