Daily weigh-ins? Yes! What are your thoughts?

estherdragonbat wrote: »

I weigh daily, but only update my stats Sunday morning

Me too - weigh daily right now as it is a tool in my complete tool belt of things that help me focus. But I am sporadic on adding it to MFP stats.

When I achieved the big loss years ago, I got to the point that I stopped weighing and used my cloths as the judge and I did that for a long time. The drawback was, when I stopped maintaining and started gaining again, not weighing made it very easy to turn a blind eye to what was happening on the clothes end.

smaerose wrote: »

If you are weighing more than once a day, that moves into obsession territory. Once a day, on a regular basis, similar circumstances each time, that is scientific measurement. If weighing every day makes you obsess, do not do it. If it helps you focus, it is a great idea.

Even then, the reasons (and attitude toward it) matter. I've sometimes weighed myself a second time in a day, for example, to make sure I'm hydrating properly during outdoor exercise when the weather is hot. It's still just useful data, not an obsession.

I enjoy weighing daily because if its up I get motivated to have a healthy day and if its down I get motivated to continue my healthy choices. If I go away for a weekend or sleep-in I don’t really worry about it!

Absolutely. Face the music every day or your brain will begin to play tricks on you. You can enter into sharky waters quickly without any strong data points. I believe in letting the data points speak for themselves. They tell no lies without a hint of imaginary thinking that all is fine and well. I bought into 'the scales are not important' dieting dogma about 5 years ago. That was the biggest lie of all.

That's only true for someone who's never ever had a problem with food in their entire lifetime. They need to be coached to eat because they forget about eating. For those who've struggled with obesity...the scales are important with the daily data point.

I weigh daily and log it daily because it keeps me involved in the process. ☺

I like it because I can confirm how certain favorite foods make me retain water and I think it's cool to find the balance.

(I'm a sucker for anything in vinegar-- cucumbers, bell peppers, sweet onion,-- but I notice the morning after having some that all that salt definitely causes the scale to go up a pound or in the case of this morning, 3. It's cool to know that stuff about my body and it's responses 'cause then I don't beat myself up thinking I somehow gained three pounds of fat and can see the natural fluctuations human bodies do.)

I slimmed down a lot a few years ago and I used to weigh myself every day then but recently I realised it was pretty meaningless for me. Absolutely fine if it helps other people but all it did for me was make me stressed and give me a false impression of how I was doing, given that I can easily 'lose' or 'gain' 3lbs overnight depending on how much water I drank that day or whether my meals had a lot of salt in them. Also, when I got to a point where I was gaining muscle and then getting disheartened because I wasn't losing weight - even though I was losing fat, and inches.

I now see a personal trainer and he has pretty much banned me from weighing myself at all. I get weighed and my body fat monitored once a month, and the goals I've set are for body fat percentage and bust/waist/hip measurements, rather than weight loss. If I went back to weighing myself I'd do it once a week at the absolute most.

But everyone's different - whatever you find motivating and helpful is the right way for you.

I weigh daily as I like the extra data, and it keeps me on track. I use Happy Scale app to track trends.

I used to stress over the scale, but weighing daily and tracking trends has removed that dread.

Daily weigh-ins into Happy Scale. It's super cool watching the patterns develop, especially around my TOM. Good way to get a heads up on when my period's gonna happen, too.

I weigh daily - it’s keeps me more on track - when I go up , I know to be careful.