How often do you step on the scale?
designerdiscounts
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I have weighed daily for a long time and am considering laying off for a while. I’m at my goal weight and want to work on recomp, so the scale may not reflect the changes I’m hoping to see. I got my body fat tested 3 weeks ago and plan to get that done again at the one month mark. I’ve also been taking my measurements intermittently for the last 5 years so there’s lots of data there to compare. Scale fluctuations can make or break my day, wish they didn’t but they do.
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I weigh daily, but sometimes take a break of a few weeks.4
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I weigh every day. I wish I didn't have to, in that I don't find it as motivating or helpful as I did 7 months ago when I started dieting, but I do need the daily accountability. Without the weigh ins, I start grazing and nibbling and within a day or two all hell breaks loose.
I couldn't even estimate the amount of junk food not eaten at night in order to get a decent weigh-in the next morning. Tens of thousands of calories, I think. Sometimes the coming weigh-in has been the only thing separating me from reasonable snacking behavior and an apocalyptic total food fiasco.
Hoping to someday get to a point where I'm not leaning on the scale as a crutch, but I know I'm not there yet. Weekly weigh-ins would be much preferred and make a lot more sense, I'm just not ready for that.16 -
I've weighed daily forever but I think my mood is too closely tied to the number I see there. So, although it'll probably be really hard, I'm not weighing for a week. My food is pretty dialed in, I log everything and know what calorie number I need to be below so this hopefully won't effect that side of things.3
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I do best when I weigh once or twice a week. That works best to keep on top of it, without getting obsessed.
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I weigh daily for the first 3 months then switch to weekly and focus more on my measurements.1
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Sometimes every other day, sometimes once a week...but always 1st thing in the morning.4
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A couple of times a week. It fluctuates a good bit so weighing every day is pointless and just makes me obsess about it.1
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I only weigh once a week. I refused to be married to the scale.4
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One per week.2
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Every day. I log my weight using the app Happy Scale, so I can see my weight loss trend. Now I don't freak up with the normal up and down weight fluctuation. I know others think it is not good to weigh yourself every day, but I don't think there is anything wrong with that if you have the right mindset about weight loss.8
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I go through phases, where for weeks on end I'll weigh every day. Then I won't weigh in at all for a month or two, then I'll weigh in everyday for a little while. Back and forth! I can't say I've determined it to help or hinder my weight loss efforts, but it's almost like a pseudo-obsession for when I am in a weighing phase. Like I can't start my day at all, regardless of what the number is. And I think that's ok; I'm not freaking out about the numbers that pop up. It's almost like a little start-of-day ritual or something.0
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I weigh myself every day...immediately after I wake up and use the bathroom. This is the weight I log, whether it is up or down. Sometimes I will weigh myself later in the day after a run to get an idea of how much fluid loss I suffered. I never log this weight, as I immediately drink it back (16 oz for every lb I loose).4
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Once a week1
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Once per week first thing in the morning. I tried weighing daily when I started on a diet plan but it just got frustrating. Now, every Sunday morning when I get up I get my weight and compare it to last week.1
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Daily but it doesn't affect my mood, I expect and understand my daily fluctuations - it's normal.
Up 3lbs this morning but I'm sore from a very physical day yesterday and had a large and salty evening meal so it's not a surprise.
As it affects your mood either don't weigh daily or change your reaction to what is just data. Maybe a trending app would help with that?
But a question you need to ask yourself is if you switch to weekly weighing and that weigh-in happens to be a big upward fluctuation day will that affect your mood for a week?7 -
I have been here nearly five years and have been maintaining my weight for probably 2. I still weigh daily (unless I’m not at home first thing in the morning). I do it because for me, it helps me understand the impact that things like new exercise levels, long journeys, change in foods (meals out, Chinese, more salt etc), hormonal changes etc have on my scale weight.
I am a curious sort of person and love numbers. I also have my own spreadsheet with a weight trending function on it, which show a nicely how one “blip” due to one of these (up or down) doesn’t necessarily affect the overall trend.
However, I am aware for some people this seems weird, and some people just aren’t happy with weighing daily because the little / short term fluctuations bother them. (Husband is one of these - if he weighs it’s weekly / fortnightly)
You have to find what’s right for you.5 -
Daily, but I use a weight trend app (Happy Scale) and follow the trend weight it calculates automatically. This allows me to remove a lot of emotion from the daily fluctuations and focus more on the rational reasons of why they happen.2
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i step on it every day but forget the number as soon as i step off. except on fridays, since that is my log day.
everybody is different as far as how good it is for their mental health to weigh frequently. if the normal daily fluctuations upset you, then weigh less frequently.2 -
Twice a week0
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I used to weigh everyday .... but as I get closer to my goal... I’ve been going with how my clothes fit.
Maybe I weigh very 2-3 weeks now.0
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