Weighing every day

smaerose
smaerose Posts: 18 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
A physician friend who has never had weight issues told me he weighs himself every day when he gets up. It helped him keep from letting extra poundage pile up. I started doing this as part of my weight loss/ management plan and it has been helpful, although weight may vary up to 3 lb from morning to morning. Most recommendations are to weigh once a week, but the daily weigh-in has helped keep me focused. Anyone else had success with this?
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  • AprilMLowe
    AprilMLowe Posts: 447 Member
    I have success weighing everyday in terms of weight shifts and trends. I try to weigh the same time every morning and have had good results !
  • Madison9776
    Madison9776 Posts: 52 Member
    I've been weighing in every day too, it helps me keep on track more so than just once a week. It also helps me notice trends which is helpful.
  • bwhitty67
    bwhitty67 Posts: 162 Member
    Daily weigher 😬. I use happy scale and for me it helps me stay on track. It’s not in an obsessive way just something that works for me.
  • texasredreb
    texasredreb Posts: 541 Member
    I weigh daily. It's working for me.
  • kkjesq
    kkjesq Posts: 2 Member
    I also weigh myself daily. It’s like tracking your food, it keeps you aware and in the moment. If you weigh yourself weekly, it might be one of those days when you’re up or down 3 pounds and could change your food intake behaviors for the next week. If you weigh daily, you can get a better feel for your overall average weight.
  • Jackie9003
    Jackie9003 Posts: 1,116 Member
    I like to weigh daily, I find the stats interesting.
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    Blythmag wrote: »
    whmscll wrote: »
    If you weigh weekly and are “up” or stagnant on weigh-in day because of water retention or other fluctuations, it can be super discouraging. You think you haven’t lost anything when maybe you have, it is just being masked that day by water weight. So I like to weigh daily.

    This, I understand the fluctuations and it keeps me on track even if my weight goes up , I dont ever get discouraged weighing daily.

    Same
  • Girlheidi
    Girlheidi Posts: 60 Member
    Jackie9003 wrote: »
    I like to weigh daily, I find the stats interesting.

    Me too.

    Still losing, coming up on a year now. Lost 34lbs just 10 or so to go so I know it will be very slow and steady and so I want it to continue slowly downwards.

    I have a wifi scale and its seamless to sync the data.

    Large fluctuations with the cycle and I like to keep an eye, plus I love cake and ice cream! But just within the allotted calories. Set to loose 0.5lb per week. Its working for me😀
  • ginnytez
    ginnytez Posts: 1,404 Member
    Agree with others. Daily weigh-ins are helpful to me. I use Happy scale to watch the trends and that is also very helpful.
  • AmyMCGS
    AmyMCGS Posts: 32 Member
    I weigh daily, but don't count it as a true loss/ gain until Ive seen it on the scale 2-3 days in a row. That's usually enough for me to know id it's just a fluctuation or a true change.
  • QoLmatters
    QoLmatters Posts: 708 Member
    I weigh in every day too - it keeps me motivated but I try not to compare until its been a week. So I congratulate or console myself on Sundays when I compare my weight to the previous Sunday. :smiley:
  • koalathebear
    koalathebear Posts: 236 Member
    I weigh every day, too although only tend to log/check-in my weight on the weekend. If I gain weight back, I tend to log that, too just so that MFP has an accurate account of my weight. I'm not too fussed with the ups and downs as I've discovered that my body seems to respond well to exercise, so if I go up a bit, I can usually get back on track by just a little more cardio and cutting back on the snacks.
  • bluesheeponahill
    bluesheeponahill Posts: 169 Member
    I weigh everyday and use Happy Scale and Withings trend app to follow my progress. I have a lot of ups and downs, but the trend apps show my trend is down and that’s what’s really helped. Just knowing regardless of occasional blips, I’m trending downwards.
  • rissa_rawrr
    rissa_rawrr Posts: 29 Member
    I weigh in twice a week. my fridays and my mondays, just to see how i do during my work week vs the weekends.
  • mhoward685
    mhoward685 Posts: 129 Member
    I weigh every day. It keeps me accountable. Doing this requires being aware of bodies natural changes and an awareness of what is happening internally. Hormone levels, elimination (or lack thereof :)), fluid retention, etc. can all show up on the scale. Being able to weigh and know what my body needs and provide that through diet/exercise is part of my healthcare routine.
  • smaerose
    smaerose Posts: 18 Member
    All of this is good info. Not the “weigh once a week or you are obsessive” tradition, which seemed odd, since you do eat every day (I hope). I, too, have found that the daily morning weigh-in helps keep me accountable.
  • ducttapebowtie
    ducttapebowtie Posts: 10 Member
    I weigh every morning, but put more personal focus on the weekly average. The scale is what shocked me into starting this journey, and honestly, even though I have a ways to go, seeing numbers I haven't seen since (probably?) high school is still really cool to me, and inspires me to keep my focus.
  • chris_in_cal
    chris_in_cal Posts: 2,520 Member
    smaerose wrote: »
    Most recommendations are to weigh once a week....

    I don't think this is true. I don't think there has ever been a study comparing, so it is still just opinion. Something close, The National Weight Control registry put out some "tendencies" of people who maintained weightloss and the most successful maintainers weighed daily...

    I think weighing daily can cause anxiy and obsession for some who are prone to that, but nobody disputes the value of remaining aware and mindful of where your weight control practice is.

  • TrishSeren
    TrishSeren Posts: 587 Member
    I weigh daily, but lately, due to my own lack of focus, it's rapidly trending up haha.
  • grinning_chick
    grinning_chick Posts: 765 Member
    edited June 2019
    I weigh daily. For a while, it could derail me, but I powered through it and now can use it as the tool it is meant to be.

    That may not be the case for everyone as I had to get very objective about the data in order to do so. If you find it is negatively impacting your weight loss endeavors, and you can't shake it doing so, then best thing for the short term is to find a weighing frequency that does work for you. Readdress your relationship with the weight scale at a better time for you like, say, maintenance.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    I have always weighed myself several times a week, but not every day. I am fortunate in that I have never been one to get too emotionally tied to the number on the scale, I think because I enjoy playing around with the numbers and it's always been just another number to me.

    Some people find getting on the scale every day stressful and do better weighing once a week or less often. Others find that weighing every day helps them to see how weight goes up and down and not always how you'd expect and THAT makes it easier for them to just look at it as a number.

    You just have to figure out which way is the most compatible with how your brain works :smile:

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