How often do YOU weigh in personally?
CassieJones104
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I am supposed to be weighing in once a week but have been weighing daily. The fluctuations are definitely discouraging! I will be going back to only weighing once per week!
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I weigh daily, use the trending app Happy Scale, and only concern myself with the trend.
Weighing daily will smooth out the fluctuations more that weighing less often.5 -
Daily and use a trend weight app. I am used to the fluctuations.
How often you weigh is personal preference.6 -
See, I find daily fluctuations interesting. Potato potahto, I guess.
When I first started losing weight they bothered me a lot more, but I'm 13 years into this maintenance thing so the ups and downs don't really get to t me any more.
I had to lose close to a hundred pounds. After I lost about 30, my scale broke. I lost probably the next 40 with no scale. I only bought a new scale to lose that last 15-20.4 -
Like kshama and saredsia, I weigh daily and use Libra (the Android equivalent of HappyScale).4
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Once a week, and track it on Happy Scale. No matter how much I'd like to feel differently, too many measurements make me anxious.
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I weigh daily and use a trending app to even out the fluctuations. I look at the average and don't worry about the day to day weights. Your weight will go up and down, but as long as the trend is going down then you know you are losing. I personally don't like weekly weighing because if your weekly weigh in is high you may feel like you either gained, or didn't lose as expected and for me that is discouraging. The high weight could just be a normal fluctuation, maybe you are at a certain point in your menstrual cycle or had a sodium high meal the day before or you are constipated and have more food in your system. There are lots of reasons that you might be retaining water. If you are weighing daily then you will see that even if your actual weight that day is up, your overall average weight is not up. More data gives you a better average. But it is really just a personal preference.4
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I weigh in most mornings. But I consider my 'weight' to be my most recent lowest #. I ignore the fluctuations. Stepping on the scale is just part of my morning routine.7
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I also become anxious and a little obsessive if I weigh daily, so I (generally) weigh weekly. Every once in awhile, I find myself popping on the scale midweek and having a minor freak out, but so far, every Saturday I’ve dropped a little bit, if not the full lb I want with the exception of a couple times. However, since I religiously track my food, I know exactly why I didn’t lose those weeks (eating out, birthday celebrations, etc)4
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I am a tad bit obsessive with the scale and tend to weigh everyday, multiple times just because it helps keep me in track. I know I shouldn’t, but I like seeing the number go down and I can get a good feel for how much I can expect to gain per food choice. Sometimes it is a detriment, like today, where I made poor choices last night and now I’ve gained three pounds from yesterday morning.3
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Daily. Let all fluctuations and variations eat your dust. You will not be deterred.6
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Everyday twice. Once in the morning and once before bed, denoting on what I actually did and ate that day to figure out how my body reacts.
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Daily. First thing in the a.m.
Been doing this since 03/12/122 -
I weigh daily so I can see exactly what is going on. It helps me identify trends on how my hormone changes affect weight.3
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Weekly. Fluctuations don't bother me, but to me fluctuations in daily data points (and even in weekly to some extent) are just noise that says more about hydration levels and the amount of food and waste in my digestive tract than about fat loss, which is my goal. I don't need another app cluttering up my life and my phone to eliminate the noise and tell me what I already know.
But nothing wrong with weighing daily if that's what floats your boats and if it doesn't make you anxious or prompt you to try to manipulate diet and exercise in response to the noise. Ultimately, I think your understanding of what is noise and what is meaningful data and your emotional reaction to that is FAR more important than how often you weigh.4 -
Daily and I just track my trend casually.
Fluctuations are normal, understood, accepted as part of being alive and don't faze me. Each weigh in has very little significance on its own.
If you weigh weekly and that happens on a day you happened to fluctuate the wrong way wouldn't that be more discouraging? ("Oh noes! I've been good all week and got nothing to show for it!")
Wouldn't it also make it harder to understand why that fluctuation happened?3 -
Daily and I just track my trend casually.
Fluctuations are normal, understood, accepted as part of being alive and don't faze me. Each weigh in has very little significance on its own.
If you weigh weekly and that happens on a day you happened to fluctuate the wrong way wouldn't that be more discouraging? ("Oh noes! I've been good all week and got nothing to show for it!")
Wouldn't it also make it harder to understand why that fluctuation happened?
This demonstrates my point. If you're (A) someone who doesn't understand fluctuations and reacts to them emotionally, you're going to do that whether you're weighing daily or weekly. If you're (B) someone who does understand and doesn't react to them emotionally, you're going to be OK with fluctuations whether you're weighing daily or weekly.
I think a lot of people on both sides of this argument make the erroneous assumption that their personal frequency in weighing is going to miraculously change person A into person B. I don't think it works that way.6 -
Every few days normally. Whenever I remember to weigh after going to the loo but before drinking anything in the morning.1
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I weigh daily, in the morning, and often in the evening too for the same reason as ninerbuff. I only record my morning weigh-in though, and I do that on a spreadsheet that calculates my average over the calendar month. That helps me to see where the underlying trend is instead of getting fixated on the one value. Because of where our scales are, my morning weigh-in is generally after exercise but before breakfast, which tells me where I am going. The days when I don't exercise tell me where my upper morning weight is. I am finding this quite a good way of reminding myself that I am aiming to reach a weight range rather than a weight.3
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I personally don't like weekly weighing because if your weekly weigh in is high you may feel like you either gained, or didn't lose as expected and for me that is discouraging.
Same. My weight was down earlier this week but then right before my monthly cycle it popped up. Today it is the same as it was a week ago. Had I not weighed every day I would think I had made no progress this week.3 -
Every Monday, as I have done for years. Sometimes a few days later too, but not always.
It took a while (and reading lots of posts on these forums) to stop being disheartened by a blip on the scales.3 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »Weekly. Fluctuations don't bother me, but to me fluctuations in daily data points (and even in weekly to some extent) are just noise that says more about hydration levels and the amount of food and waste in my digestive tract than about fat loss, which is my goal. I don't need another app cluttering up my life and my phone to eliminate the noise and tell me what I already know.
But nothing wrong with weighing daily if that's what floats your boats and if it doesn't make you anxious or prompt you to try to manipulate diet and exercise in response to the noise. Ultimately, I think your understanding of what is noise and what is meaningful data and your emotional reaction to that is FAR more important than how often you weigh.
I agree with this.
I weigh weekly. I've seen threads that argue in favor of weighing in daily to track trends but I still don't see the point for me, personally. I know that seeing daily weight fluctuations would bother me and discourage me, even knowing that it all has to do with salt, carbs, and water. I'm not going to change what I eat that day to show a different number on the scale the next morning.
I'm fortunate in that I've been seeing consistent losses weighing in weekly so at this point I don't need to be nervous that my weigh in won't show any progress for the week, although I realize this can happen.
I just know that weighing in daily for me would get obsessive. I'm already fairly meticulous about measuring my calories and exercising 6 days a week, and if I went any further it could quickly become an issue of thinking about my weight/body taking over my life.
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Twice a day (first thing in the AM, right before bed) keeps me actively engaged with my weight loss project in just the way I need it. As soon as I stop weighing, I start gaining. Many, many, many is the time I forewent some unnecessary snack because I didn't want to get a bad weight reading.
Just have to learn to dismiss scale fluctuations. They can play with your head, for sure.1 -
I will give more than one answer.
For me personally, if find that my connection with the scale is directly correlated with the attention I am giving to my diet and health. The more I avoid the scale, the more I am avoiding healthy decisions. So, technically lack of scale is my first red flag. BTW I noticed during the first 6 months of COVID lockdown, that over time I was weighing less and less, now every day. As for the fluctuations, there actually is some value to seeing them on a regular/daily basis. You get the opportunity to see the cause and effect of the previous days foods - and I am mostly not talking about calories. I am talking about macros distribution, sodium, or foods that might inflame and cause fluid retention. As a female, you start learning about the numbers on the scale and how they are impacted by your cycle. Understanding these correlations help you to get through them if you can understand the short term causes and how they are transient.
Now, what is the advice I give to others (like from my 12 years working as a WW receptionist)? First you need to understand youself and how you respond to the act of stepping on a scale. If stepping on a scale is going to send you in a tailspin because of a number, then maybe at this point in time daily weighing is not best. At the other extreme, I even had members that came and weighed weekly, but asked me to record the weight in their record, but to not share that information with them. They would check out their weight history at a later time when they were ready (there were times that it was a month or more).
You have lots of great input that hopefully will help you to assess what is right for you. Give it some thought and do what is most supportive of you taking care of you.3 -
I weigh daily. I like having additional data points to plot a trend line, and I've gotten used to the fluctuations. It also helps keep me engaged with what I'm trying to do. For me, it's really easy to kind of check out and slowly slide back into old habits, so stepping on the scale first thing puts it back in my mind.1
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I weigh my self daily. My take on how often you should weigh your self is what you plan on doing with the data. If you plan on making adjustments daily, then you need daily data points. If you see what the scale says and just say "meh, just fluctuation", then no real point in weighing daily if you are sticking to your diet.1
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Similar to others I weigh most days. It just keeps me focussed on it and I know to expect fluctuations, so I'm OK with that. I only record it on here if it's gone down though
Sometimes if I know I have not stayed within calories I avoid the scale... but that's a red flag!3 -
Only when I plan to weigh myself on a specific and set day. Got to release as much temporary weight as possible.1
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In the morning after waking up in the evening before going to sleep every day. Also before and after exercises, not because I am particularly worried but want to see the difference aerobic vs anaerobic effect on the body. Maybe it's a bit too much weighing but I found I if you dont make a big deal out of it dont stress yourself over your weight just do it to gather info how your body reacts to certain conditions it is actually very useful.0
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