When do people weigh in?

If you weigh in everyday I would recommend using a trend app like Libra that will take your individual data points and trend them accordingly over time...I'd recommend using such an app really regardless of when you weigh in.

I used to weigh in daily but eventually found most of that data to not be particularly useful to me beyond initial realizations that a high sodium day or higher carb day or whatever was going to cause a jump on the scale...once I knew that I didn't really need to continue creating that experiment. One helpful trend that I noticed was that most of the time (not always), Thursdays tended to be a light day on the scale, as well as Friday so I started using those two days and taking the average.

Weighing in on a weekend or right after the weekend is a no go for me as I tend to be a bit more indulgent food wise (it's also when I'm more apt to eat out than during the week) and I also can be more indulgent in physical activity...so where during the week I might walk my dog a couple times per day and do some calisthenics a couple of days, weekends tend more towards 3-4+ hour mountain bike rides, hitting the gym, etc and that increased activity definitely leads to some inflammation and thus water weight...so a Sunday or Monday morning weigh in is kind of pointless.

Also, most people who are looking for more or less consistent numbers will weigh in the morning after the restroom...basically same time (roughly) and under the same conditions. It doesn't do you much good to weigh in the morning and then the next week you weigh in the afternoon after you've consumed food and liquids or with clothes on, etc since food and liquids and clothing are going to add weight.

Weekly, first thing Monday morning.

I know there can be noise on any single snapshot in time, so whatever number I see that day doesn't faze me either way.

i uselessly weight myself on monday moring

I weigh every morning and record it in the Libra app. I lost weight steadily a few years ago and watched my daily weigh-ins bounce around all through that time.

I can understand not weighing daily if it messes with your head.

I've just started adding short notes in Libra when I record my weight and I'm finding it useful. I just add a sentence or two to say how I'm feeling or what I thinks helping or what I'm planning to focus on. Or just to pat myself on the back! It's kind of working as a mini-journal for me. I like looking at the Libra database and seeing my notes next to my weigh-ins.

suzyfrancoise wrote: »

I weigh in every day. I adjust my eating to my weigh in.

Don’t adjust eating to daily fluctuations they are water

suzyfrancoise wrote: »

I weigh in every day. I adjust my eating to my weigh in.

Daily fluctuations are normal for so many reasons: more or less poop in your intestines, water retention for 100s of reasons, not sleeping well, if you don't weight naked then your clothes, when you've eaten last the previous evening, sipping on a bit of water during the night or not, general scale variation (yes, that's a thing). None of these have anything to do with bodyfat. Thus don't eat based on your scale but eat the calories consistently that MPF gives you, provided you've chosen a realistic weightloss goal and activity level.