How often do you weigh?
NJsemple
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I used to weigh weekly but find it so much better now weighing the last Saturday of every month. I just wondered what everyone’s preference was 😃
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Typically twice per week and take the average...usually Wednesday and Thursday. I'm an 8ish year maintainer who now needs to drop the remaining 10 Lbs or so of my COVID 20ish.4
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I weigh weekly because the fluctuations are interesting to me. In the past I couldn’t do that because they would throw me off. I only record my weight on Wednesdays though.2
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I weigh weekly on Friday, first thing in the morning. It's a good system for me and I wouldn't be surprised if it continues to make sense once I'm maintaining.3
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Daily for the most part3
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Daily and watch the trend.
I’ve always thought that if you weigh less frequently you have less idea of your true weight trend since there are so many uncontrollable factors affecting weight; water, digestive contents, hormonal fluctuation etc and no way to know how many of those are in play on any specific day.
If you weigh on a monthly or weekly basis you might catch a ‘high day’ and feel discouraged when, in fact, you’re perfectly on track. 🤷♀️16 -
I weigh daily and track in an app that shows me the overall trend. Daily weights are data points to me and I do love data!7
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One of many, many threads asking the SAME question over the years but I'll answer it just the same.
Everyone does what they are comfortable with. There is no "right" answer.
I weigh myself DAILY and have been doing so for over 5 years. Doesn't bother me but there are many who can not handle the daily data feedback and choose other intervals.
But, if you want to lose wt and/or maintain your wt loss, the IMPORTANT thing to do is to weight yourself "regularly" (regardless of the interval you choose) because w/o that data, what you are doing to lose/maintain your weight is pretty meaningless.7 -
Daily suits me.
Keeping a casual eye on my weight trend is an essential tool for me for long term maintenance without food logging.
Takes seconds, not at all stressful for me as I regard it as data, doesn't make or break my day!
Glad you have found what works for you OP.4 -
In the morning before I eat, 2-3 times a week. My weight stats mostly the same.3
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Once a week after my morning walk and shower and then log once a month by averaging out the 4 or 5 weeks.2
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Daily, put it in Libra for trend tracking, don't much worry about the daily weight, but pay attention to trends. I've weighed every morning if at home, for years (maybe a decade?) even when not trying to lose, just part of my routine (plus I'm a data geek in other ways, too). When I started losing, I already had a really clear idea that my weight bounced around several pounds day to day, usually understood why, and wasn't stressed by it, which was helpful.
Everyone should do what's most calm-inducing and helpful for her/himself.7 -
These days in maintenance, I weigh almost every morning because recognizing, understanding, and accepting my daily weight fluctuations brings me peace right now.
But at various times in my history, I've restricted myself to weekly or biweekly weigh-ins when I was in a place where being up half a pound could ruin my whole day.6 -
1-2 times a week. I think everyday is too much.5
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I hid my scale cause I was getting on it every day 3 times a day atleast. It was dumb and messing with my head. . I now just weigh myself at the most every 2 weeks. Props for doing it once a month OP.5
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BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »Daily and watch the trend.
I’ve always thought that if you weigh less frequently you have less idea of your true weight trend since there are so many uncontrollable factors affecting weight; water, digestive contents, hormonal fluctuation etc and no way to know how many of those are in play on any specific day.
If you weigh on a monthly or weekly basis you might catch a ‘high day’ and feel discouraged when, in fact, you’re perfectly on track. 🤷♀️
That’s why I had to go monthly for some reason during the month on one weigh in I always gain anything up to 5lb but it sorts it’s self over the month that’s why I changed1 -
I weigh myself depending entirely on when I've messed up with my meal plan for the day/week, and get frustrated by the numbers not shifting or creeping up. The more I gain, the more I weigh myself. It's a rather strange obsession, but then aren't all obsessions?
But as I've been doing well recently I'm weighing myself less, and finding my weight's going down. ^^4 -
Daily. Then I pay attention to my weekly average. More data and a more stable trend4
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If I am working on losing weight, or on maintaining a certain weight, then I weigh daily so that I can avoid having things going too far the "wrong direction" before I even notice it. But, on the other hand, if I'm allowing myself to have extra pounds, then I only weigh occasionally, since it is evident to myself that I really don't care at that time about my pounds. [Yes, folks, when I allow myself to have extra pounds, the reality for me is because I don't care... otherwise I'd not let it happen!!]
Different things work for different people, and the motivation of "why" someone weights also makes a difference.5 -
Daily helps keep me in line and my eye on the final goal6
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Weekly here! Wednesday’s & sometimes on a Saturday morning - in an effort to stay focused as I could easily overeat at a weekend!3
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If you're just starting out you should weigh every day, ideally in the morning. This way you can figure out how many calories you need for loss, maintenance etc... If you do this you will know exactly how many calories you need after a month or so. Write it down along side your calorie intake. OT- for newbies to this. I find that BMR calculators are usually too high. For example. My weight, height, activity level on calculators say I need 2700 calories a day to maintain, my actual maintenance calories are 2200 to 2300. BMR calculators are a reference point, nothing more.1
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Heh. Calorie calculators are pretty consistently about 300 calories too LOW for me. Definitely need to do some experimentation to figure out what exactly your calorie needs are. That said, so many things impact your daily energy use and it is so inconsistent day to day (for most) that even then you're going to be doing an awful lot of rough estimating and guessing for quite a long while.
And that's ok.3 -
Daily, but only because I'm confident that my mood won't be affected by what I see on the scale. I'm a data geek, so I like to track the daily fluctuations, to see the impact of different foods/activities/sodium intake etc on my daily weight. It makes me comfortable with seeing my weight go up as well as down, as is only natural. If I knew my mood and motivation were affected by the result I'd switch to weekly or even monthly weighing, because I wouln't want the daily mood swings.4
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If you're just starting out you should weigh every day, ideally in the morning. This way you can figure out how many calories you need for loss, maintenance etc... If you do this you will know exactly how many calories you need after a month or so. Write it down along side your calorie intake. OT- for newbies to this. I find that BMR calculators are usually too high. For example. My weight, height, activity level on calculators say I need 2700 calories a day to maintain, my actual maintenance calories are 2200 to 2300. BMR calculators are a reference point, nothing more.
This is interesting as a relative newbie... but for me, I would find the daily weigh ins too stressful... and the fluctuations potentially triggering to give up! I know that daily fluctuations are part & parcel of biology, but I get (yes, ridiculously!) upset when the scale moves back up! 🥴🙄🤪
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daily works for me for last 2 years, before I woud gain as much as 20 lbs and I didnt weigh regulary so it lets me see where I am at, not burying my head in the sand.2
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Morningly and nakedly 😄10
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I recently nabbed a new scale and have been going daily for two weeks (which is very new for me). The trends are astounding once I found an accurate scale. The first shock was to see I was about 8 pounds heavier than the old mechnical scale I had been using. Then the next data point is that my weight has been steadily increasing even after logging every single thing in MFP ( to my current calculated daily max of exactly 1934).
For a guy that is 202 pounds - I should be seeing some slow loss at this daily cal amount. I am doing at least 30 mins of exercise of some sort twice per day but I do not understand what is happening - it makes no sense.1 -
OT- for newbies to this. I find that BMR calculators are usually too high. For example. My weight, height, activity level on calculators say I need 2700 calories a day to maintain, my actual maintenance calories are 2200 to 2300. BMR calculators are a reference point, nothing more.
True that. I have been messing around with a variety of online calculators for the last year or so and have found (After I got a new accurate scale) that my "maintenance" cals are drastically lower than any online calculator. Almost every online one I found pointed me to somewhere around 2300 (with exercise 3 days a week) but my own data here shows it to be more like 2050.
These online cals do not specify what constitutes "exercise" either. There is a vast difference in walking around the neighborhood listening to Spotify vs spending an hour in a gym lifting hard steel.
Cheers
Sonic.
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OT- for newbies to this. I find that BMR calculators are usually too high. For example. My weight, height, activity level on calculators say I need 2700 calories a day to maintain, my actual maintenance calories are 2200 to 2300. BMR calculators are a reference point, nothing more.
True that. I have been messing around with a variety of online calculators for the last year or so and have found (After I got a new accurate scale) that my "maintenance" cals are drastically lower than any online calculator. Almost every online one I found pointed me to somewhere around 2300 (with exercise 3 days a week) but my own data here shows it to be more like 2050.
These online cals do not specify what constitutes "exercise" either. There is a vast difference in walking around the neighborhood listening to Spotify vs spending an hour in a gym lifting hard steel.
Cheers
Sonic.
Well. No. Lifting weights doesn't actually burn all that many calories. Neither does walking.
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I weigh daily. The more data, the better.3
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