Thoughts on Weighing Everyday?

i weight myself once a week.. I would drive myself crazy doing it everyday good luck and welcome back

Daily...but I agree that you cannot make it a habit to obsess about day to day fluctuations. As long as the overall trend is down, you are good!

i weighed daily, keeping in mind that my weight varies between 1 and 4 pounds a day. Only logged a weigh in on Sundays.

I weigh daily because I think it gives me a little reminder every morning of what I'm doing, it helps to keep me on track. But I think you have to be careful not to get bothered by the little gains that will happen

I do this too :happy:

I weigh daily. Either it makes me eat cleaner and exercise a bit more or it reaffirms I'm on the right track and motivates me to get my butt in gear. This is what works for me. I'm sure most people will suggest weekly.


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I weigh myself daily, always first thing in the morning after I've used the rest room and before eating anything. I accept that weight fluctuates daily and I don't get too concerned with this...but I like to know what's going on. At one point I felt myself getting complacent by weighing daily during those weeks where I started off well and watched the scale move considerably...only to then ease up later in the week as I approached my weekly official weigh-in day. To counter this complacency, I decided to weigh in only on my weigh-in day. This lasted one week. However, I am no longer feeling complacent from weighing daily. I think it helped just realizing what was going on in my head.

I weigh myself daily but only record my weight every Friday. It helps too see the small little wins but doing daily you will also see small gains, the key is not to get bothered by it and see the overall results.

Although a lot of people loosing weight do weigh themselves daily, I would try to resist. Weight is so inconsistent and can vary so much from day to day! Try using a measuring tape once a week to record the changes measurements are a lot more accurate than scales.

I was weighing myself daily...but, the number staring back at me can dictate my day at times. So, back to once a week weigh-in's. I find by not getting on the scale consistantly, I'm more aware of my nutrition (go figure). Seriously, I'm backwards--if I eat clean all day, I'll get on the scale after dinner, see no significant gains and think "hey, it's ok to have a piece of cake"....which of course isn't truly the case. Silly I know, but that's the way it works with me.

I weigh in daily. I taped a piece of notebook paper above the scale and divided it into columns. I write the date and the weight daily. It's interesting to see the daily progression. It's up and down anywhere from 1-8 pounds on a given day but over the weeks and months you can see the gradual loss. My first sheet of paper has almost 30lbs of loss on it. Good motivator and just plain interesting to me.

I don't recommend it for the weak of mind or the type of person who will freak out over short term gains. Some days I worked out hard and put on several pounds the next day. Or I ate a ton of sodium and did the same. Or I spent all day working in the yard and am down a half dozen pounds. Not a big deal, you just have to look at the big picture.

I've done both weekly and daily. I'm currently a daily weigher because it helpe me see a serious bad habit trend and stop it to get losing again. But you definitely have to be able to go with the flow and not obsess about things, like folks have said. For example, I had a couple of days of being "backed up" and stepped on the scale to an over one pound "gain" from the previous day. But I knew that a good part of it was likely due to my body not clearing itself out. Yesterday everything kicked into gear and this morning I was back to pre-backed up weight again. But it's easy for a lot of people to see the number and stress or freak out about why they're suddenly gaining. So you have to be pretty comfortable with yourself to do it daily.

For me, if I hadnt started the daily, I may still be in my infinite loop of doom. I'd been trying a weekly chest meal/day to try to jumpstart things again. My weekly weigh-in would show me either staying the same or with very slight gains or losses (mere ounces). So I thought I was just stagnant. When I started daily. I saw that I would lose all week, then jump up after my cheat, then spend all week losing that again, and then jump up again, etc. etc.

Being able to see that cycle, and stop it, has kept me on a continual loss since then. So daily weighing definitely has advantages like that.

I weight daily but don't pay attention to the daily figure, only the 7-day running average. Daily measurements give a more accurate running average.

I weigh daily. I keep a graph on the bathroom wall and record on it daily, so I can see the general trend. Each sheet covers about one month.

I weigh myself daily too, it keeps me focused and I don't get upset by little gains, I know it's understandable and I take other things into consideration if I weigh slightly more.. so I don't get depressed, is worse not weighing in a week and thinking you're doing great and not being able to see any improvement after a week.. or even worse... a gain. I've noticed I go down one day a week, then I put it here on the chek-in, then for the following days I've gone heavier but I don't change it unless it seems perennial, but then usually just when I've lost hope of being that weight, then it's one suddenly the next morning I weigh even less than in my last check in. I think last time I added my check in was a week ago, I've been up or keeping up till yesterday, but this morning I simply forgot to weigh myself, but hopefully I will be in a new weigh tomorrow .. I feel it somehow!:D