How often do you weigh?

photo_kyla
photo_kyla Posts: 322 Member
edited October 3 in Health and Weight Loss
I read somewhere that you should only weigh once a week so that you see actual difference and not just daily fluctuations, but I was reading today that people who weigh themselves daily tend to lose twice as much as people who weigh themselves less frequently. http://eatthis.menshealth.com/slide/18-not-using-scale?slideshow=186453#sharetagsfocus
What do you do?
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  • Epinephrine
    Epinephrine Posts: 5
    I weigh myself every morning when I wake up. Just so I can see how my weight fluctuates as each day passes throughout the week.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    I weigh every day because I can't help it
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,078 Member
    Whenever I feel like it! :bigsmile:
  • Navmachine
    Navmachine Posts: 63
    i weigh myself everyday, except for the weeks of pms, because i know that will just depress me. :p
  • Nikki582
    Nikki582 Posts: 561 Member
    Every time I walk past the scales :lol
    I don't mind the fluctuations, they don't get be down :)
  • Jemmuno
    Jemmuno Posts: 413 Member
    My doctor told me to weigh once a week, so thats what I do. Her reasoning behind it though was so I wouldn't get obsessed with weighing myself and start stressing over a number.
  • NicoleMarie0409
    NicoleMarie0409 Posts: 151
    I weigh every day because I can't help it

    Me too
  • _GlaDOS_
    _GlaDOS_ Posts: 1,520 Member
    I weigh every morning. I don’t obsess with it, I just like to understand the daily fluctuations, and I’m trying to make sure, as I increase my calories, that I’m not gaining weight.
  • its_B
    its_B Posts: 491
    I weigh myself a few times a week, My weekly recorded weigh in on Wednesdays, So I weigh myself every day with sunday being the last day, then I don't weigh myself again until Wednesday. (so no weigh in monday, or tuesday) So when I enter my weekly it can be a surprise! :)
  • rikisue206
    rikisue206 Posts: 99 Member
    My offical weigh in is always on Saturday mornings before breakfast. I also weight in 2 or 3 times a week just to keep in check. I do not weigh in during the week before and the week of my period, but only because I ALWAYS gain about 9 lbs. during that time and then drop it right after plus some. It is too frustrating to weigh then...
  • HMonsterX
    HMonsterX Posts: 3,000 Member
    I think the most common answer will be along the lines of "Once a day, but only log it once a week".

    I'm one of them :)
  • healthy_KT
    healthy_KT Posts: 57 Member
    I weigh everyday. I don't obsess over it but I like to stay in check. Everyone is different.
  • richardholt2011
    richardholt2011 Posts: 118 Member
    in a previous attempt at losing weight i aimed to weigh myself every week but would cheat and weigh myself during the week - would then find i hadnt lost anything or had even gained, would get down-hearted and pig-out. Now i am being strict and only doing it every week and i feel so much better. I feel much more in control of the process
  • SBug
    SBug Posts: 15 Member
    That is so good to hear.. I am on the week before my time of the month right now and I gained 4 pounds and was getting anxiety that I was losing progress.. Glad someone can relate!!
  • neveradullmoment
    neveradullmoment Posts: 90
    I weigh myself once a week but would rather weigh in more often.



    :smile:
  • rmartin72
    rmartin72 Posts: 1,085 Member
    I weigh every Saturday once a week. Welcome To MFP!! Congratulations On A Healthy Journey!!
  • Surfrider
    Surfrider Posts: 364 Member
    My official logged weigh-in is on Thursdays, but I take a peek every day when I wake up to see my fluctuations.
  • SouLThinking
    SouLThinking Posts: 308 Member
    I weigh every morning. But, I only log my low weights LOL. Another words I may fluctuate up and down are stay the same but as soon as I see a new low weight I log it. When I went and looked at the reports option where it lets you look at your weight change I I see a gradual loss. I also can go look at my previous entries and I see that I lose about 0.6 to 0.8 lb a week or 1 lb every 10 days.

    But either way yea I have to weigh everyday!
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    once a week (same time for comparability), unless I am doing some sort of dietary experimenting.

    And on this topic

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/353077-emotions-regarding-weight-loss?page=1#posts-4786775
  • nsblue
    nsblue Posts: 331 Member
    I use to weigh every week but now I weigh myself everyday... when I am home that is. I find it keeps me honest and doing it helps me get to know my body, how it reacts to certain things, but most of all, to stay on top of things.
  • kathleenerinmiller
    kathleenerinmiller Posts: 1
    weigh in every morning Same time... i dont stress over the small ups and downs but if i get the same reading 3 days in a row i log it. And then i dont allow myself to go 0.2kg over it again... except during the week of my period then i count nothing and i dont weigh in at all... that week is just not worth the hormonal drama of any gain :)

    i find daily stops me from eating badly i see every up and down daily and it pushes me at the gym :)
  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    I weigh every day, multiple times a day. I don't obsess about the number. It's fascinating to see the fluctuations throughout the day and across the month. If I'm doing better than usual at that time of day cool. If not, hmm. No changes really just wondering. I log my morning weights unless I forgot to weigh nekkid. That way the graph shows the fluctuations and I can see the pattern very clearly. I have "official " weigh ins twice a week.

    It just works better than once a week for me.
  • Riverofbeauty
    Riverofbeauty Posts: 205 Member
    I used to weigh one or more times a day and became a wee bit obsessed with it.

    My doctor told me off and told me to get rid of my scales because I shouldn't ever weigh myself. I totally disagree with that, but found weighing once a week was much better for me.

    Now I've moved onto maintenance I weigh on Thursdays and Mondays, but Mondays is my "official" day.
  • Bluestar083
    Bluestar083 Posts: 146
    When i'm my goal weight-once a week to make sure I havent gained any weight...but i'm pretty slim so notice an extra 2kg VERY easily (1kg i don't notice)
    When I'm trying to lose weight-2-3 times a week. I read the same study a few years ago.
  • Bluestar083
    Bluestar083 Posts: 146
    I weigh every day, multiple times a day. I don't obsess about the number. It's fascinating to see the fluctuations throughout the day and across the month. If I'm doing better than usual at that time of day cool. If not, hmm. No changes really just wondering. I log my morning weights unless I forgot to weigh nekkid. That way the graph shows the fluctuations and I can see the pattern very clearly. I have "official " weigh ins twice a week.

    It just works better than once a week for me.

    Intersted to hear what sort of fluctuations you get over a day?
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    I weigh whenever I feel lighter. LOL
  • kstep88
    kstep88 Posts: 403 Member
    So do I! Haha
  • simplycee
    simplycee Posts: 29
    I weigh myself once a day first thing in the morning but only record once a week, same day each week. Works for me. The only time I get frustrated is when I am pms'ing because I retain water during this time and it shows on the scale.
  • flvsusandy
    flvsusandy Posts: 63 Member
    I weigh myself everyday and take off all my clothes and make sure I pee before! I used to weigh once a week a few months back and then I had a couple of surprises where I gained weight. I feel like weighing everyday (even though it fluctuates) helps to keep me in check!
  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    I weigh every day, multiple times a day. I don't obsess about the number. It's fascinating to see the fluctuations throughout the day and across the month. If I'm doing better than usual at that time of day cool. If not, hmm. No changes really just wondering. I log my morning weights unless I forgot to weigh nekkid. That way the graph shows the fluctuations and I can see the pattern very clearly. I have "official " weigh ins twice a week.

    It just works better than once a week for me.

    Intersted to hear what sort of fluctuations you get over a day?

    I'm always at least 2 pounds heavier at night before I go to bed. (in the bathroom to brush teeth and take care of any last bit of business). I sometimes come in from a run, weigh myself and might be up a little or down a little. It has happened that I'll weigh myself after a bath, sometimes having washed my long hair, and I will weigh less after the bath than I did right before. Sometimes as much as a pound! It is truly stunning. I weigh myself when I first wake up on one of the official weigh in days for my challenge. I've weighed X at 4:30 (just woke up and had to pee) and then gone back to bed and done nothing else and weighed X+1 pounds at 5:30.

    If I weigh what I weighed this morning any time after noon, then I'm gonna have a loss tomorrow unless I eat a bunch of salt.

    I always have precipitous weight loss, gain back a bit and then maintain or slowly lose. the maintain period is my period. I also notice that my stomach seems more jiggly, and then I have a big drop.

    Its all bizarre and truly fascinating.
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