Weighing in

I weigh once a week, on Sunday morning. Always before I eat or drink anything and on an empty bladder. I know that my weight fluctuates daily, so I don't want to get discouraged by seeing a higher number. That's why I way once a week. To me it's all about the final numbers on day # 7.

It is the second thing I do every morning. After years of not wanting to even step on the scale, it helps keep me motivated.

chadwheeler4422 wrote: »

Do you weigh yourself everyday? Once a week? Once a month?

I weigh daily, but I don't get emotionally tied to the result and know its not always going to show a drop. By weighing daily, I have a better understanding of what to expect based on my normal routine.

I have a Fitbit Aria scale, and that sends weighin data to Fitbit which is then sent to MFP. If I have a scenario where I expect the scale weight to be 'boosted' for a few days, such as for water weight gain for eating/drinking differently over the weekend, then I do sometimes choose to skip a day. Or I'll step on - to see the # - but not stay on long enough to let the # update to Fitbit.

Every day, in the morning after the bathroom but before eating/drinking, wearing my watch and glasses. I've done that, and noted the result, for well over a decade (except when I'm away from home), even when I wasn't trying to lose or maintain weight. I could tell you what I weighed six years ago last Tuesday.

It's just data, potentially useful data, about my body's momentary relationship with gravity. There's no reason to have any particular emotional reaction to it, there's no reason it will be some kind of Big Surprise. (I may be up 5 pounds, but I've seen that disappear overnight before, too, so if I didn't eat literally 17,500 calories over maintenance - which I would've noticed - there's no way it's fat, so why worry?).

More granular data is helpful for identifying trends, such as gaining, losing, maintaining. Trends can be important, but they're not just one day's scale weight.

Once a week. Every Saturday morning after I pee with no pants on. That’s my consistent weigh in. At one point I did weigh myself daily or at least 3x week just to see my fluctuations.

I decided to take a break from daily weigh-ins around 5 weeks ago. I didn't get on a scale for almost a month, trusting my new habits developed over the past year, along with calorie logging. Last week I weighed in and discovered I'd gained 5.5 pounds - totally off base from where it should've been based on food measuring and logging. Something definitely went wrong! This is the first weight I've gained back at all in well over a year. Learned my lesson. I'm back to daily morning weigh-ins. They keep me engaged with the diet and hold me to account.

I weigh myself daily, after using the bathroom and before eating anything. I log it into MFP every Monday.
When I first started my weight loss journey about 10 years ago, I weighed in daily but didn’t change my eating habits too much. It helped me realize Chinese food and eating out 4-5 times a week weren’t doing me any good. I credit daily weigh ins for helping me change my eating habits to cooking my own food and eating in moderation.
I had ditched the scale for a while, I think for a year or two. I hopped on the scale at the doctor and found I gained 7 pounds.
Weighing in daily keeps me in check. I find if I overdid it and packed on a pound or two, I tend to scale back a bit (no pun intended) on what I eat the next day or two.

Every Monday morning, first thing when I wake up,