Extra weigh days!

Fight the temptation. You don't want to get disappointed and discouraged. Patience is key!!!

When I did this at the beginning of the summer I found myself jumping on the scale everytime I walked into my bathroom. I slacked off and gained the weight back and I'm back at it again. This time I'm making sure I only go once a week. I used to get upset if I saw I gained weight then would eat some extra snacks telling myself it doesn't matter anyways. So I say fight the temptation and just try to wait until Monday.

I check it every day and don't get hung up on whether its up a day or two. I always take that as an indication that I'm not drinking enough water. As for what I record, I figure I will just put in my weight every pound or two.

I used to be an ardent, weigh yourself only once a week, person. Until I starting weighing myself every morning as an experiment. I have a spreadsheet that I log every days weigh-in into along with my consumed calories, exercise calories and overall calories burned (from my BodyMedia Fit). And it really opened my eyes. I has recently started doing a weekly cheat meal to try to jump start losing again and the data helped me see that I would be on a steady loss all week, would spike after the cheat meal day and then the whole next week was re-losing that weight. So when it looked like the scale was moving week over week and I was just staying steady, it was really that I was on an overall losing trend but wrecking that each week with the cheat meal.

So I stopped the cheat meals, have continued weighing daily and have been on a steady loss pattern since then. Without the daily weighing, I never would have been able to see that trend and correct it. My method is to weigh myself every morning in nothing but a pair of underwear. So it's pretty much, wake up, use restroom, strip to skivvies, weigh. I've been super happy with the results.

i weigh myself every morning, but only log it on here once a week (sundays). it helps me stay on track

Without the daily weighing, I never would have been able to see that trend and correct it. My method is to weigh myself every morning in nothing but a pair of underwear. So it's pretty much, wake up, use restroom, strip to skivvies, weigh. I've been super happy with the results.

Yep same here. I don't react negatively, it helps me to see if maybe trying something different, changed anything or not. I don't let the one pound up or down make a difference. i just wait and see what I am Monday morning. I have the exact same morning routine too.

me too, except I ditch the "skivvies" as well. anyway, I know weight fluctuates throughout the week, but I want to know if I'm majorly off course before the official weigh in day. at the same time, I can certainly appreciate the person who weighs in just once each week. I acknowledge the possibility of having better results if I weighed in once a week because there have been times where I lose a couple pounds quickly and then kind of skate through the rest of the week. for example, I didn't do too well from 3 p.m. on yesterday, even though Wednesday morning is my official MFP weigh-in day. I knew that I had done fairly well for the week and I let myself mentally skate last night. I still could call last week a success (-3.2 pounds), but if I didn't know what the scale had said as the week progressed, I probably would have eaten differently yesterday afternoon/evening.

and, as I just typed that, I'm thinking I might just wait until next Wednesday to weigh in again. I'm ready to have a truly killer week

thank you for posting this because it made me realize that weighing in daily (even if I'm recording just once a week) has led to some degree of complacency. So, at least for the short term, I'm going to weigh in only on my official weigh in day.

Without the daily weighing, I never would have been able to see that trend and correct it. My method is to weigh myself every morning in nothing but a pair of underwear. So it's pretty much, wake up, use restroom, strip to skivvies, weigh. I've been super happy with the results.

Yep same here. I don't react negatively, it helps me to see if maybe trying something different, changed anything or not. I don't let the one pound up or down make a difference. i just wait and see what I am Monday morning. I have the exact same morning routine too.

me too, except I ditch the "skivvies" as well. anyway, I know weight fluctuates throughout the week, but I want to know if I'm majorly off course before the official weigh in day. at the same time, I can certainly appreciate the person who weighs in just once each week. I acknowledge the possibility of having better results if I weighed in once a week because there have been times where I lose a couple pounds quickly and then kind of skate through the rest of the week. for example, I didn't do too well from 3 p.m. on yesterday, even though Wednesday morning is my official MFP weigh-in day. I knew that I had done fairly well for the week and I let myself mentally skate last night. I still could call last week a success (-3.2 pounds), but if I didn't know what the scale had said as the week progressed, I probably would have eaten differently yesterday afternoon/evening.

and, as I just typed that, I'm thinking I might just wait until next Wednesday to weigh in again. I'm ready to have a truly killer week

I do the same thing. I tried weighing weekly, but I found I was getting nowhere fast. When I switched to daily I felt more in control and I started losing. I'm down 19 pounds since April so far.