Weighing yourself everyday

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  • heykatieben
    heykatieben Posts: 398 Member
    I weigh every day, and I love it. :)

    I weigh in the morning, just after using the bathroom. It seems pretty consistent for me - I get to see a few tenths of a pound down every day (GREAT motivation), with sometimes stalling or higher weights after bad days. To me it's more of a reset, and motivation - it keeps me accountable every day. :)
  • KeyMasterOfGozer
    KeyMasterOfGozer Posts: 229 Member
    I weigh in every day. Actually, I also weigh at several points in the day, just so I can get an idea of how my weight normally fluctuates, but I only log it in MFP in the morning before I eat or drink, after I relieve myself. Your weight will fluctuate, sometimes wildly depending on lots of things like salt intake the day before, so you have to keep that in mind and not get discouraged, but if you plot you daily weigh-ins on a graph, you can see a general trend, and that is helpful for me. Lots of people do a weekly weigh-in, but what happens if you happen to eat higher salt on the day before weigh-in? Well, your normal; salt fluctuation will show a weight gain for the week, even though you might still be in a losing trend.
  • vinylscratch
    vinylscratch Posts: 218 Member
    I have to agree with the poster who suggested weighing yourself in kg. When I first started losing weight a couple of years ago, I was living in Leiden, NL (about 15 minutes out of Amsterdam by train) and purchased a scale, which was in kg. At first it was disheartening because it creeps down so slowly, but it's definitely less maddening. It was fun to have the analog kind, too as opposed to the digital ones. When I saw it spring and stop short of 100kg for the first time I nearly peed I was so excited!
  • slacker80
    slacker80 Posts: 235 Member
    Over my weightloss journey this year I've found that I can fluctuate from 2 to 4 1/2 pounds, in the course of a single day.

    In a serious cardio session I've seen a loss of up to nearly 3 pounds water weight..
  • annameier8706
    annameier8706 Posts: 417 Member
    I weigh myself every morning for a TOM/ovulation calculator, but I only post my weight here every monday. I know my body, and it fluctuates between .5-1.5 lbs so I look for a constant change of weight before I claim it.
  • Aperyan83
    Aperyan83 Posts: 69 Member
    I am TERRIBLE at this... I weigh myself EVERYDAY. Not only do I weigh myself everyday I weigh myself... umm, in the AM before I leave the house, AS SOON as I get home, then probably like 2-3 times before going to sleep. :noway: So FIVE+ times a day!!

    HELP :drinker:
  • tacchyy
    tacchyy Posts: 5
    its crazy cos i weigh myself everyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy day...yesterday i had to remove the battery nd hide it.
  • pluschek
    pluschek Posts: 8 Member
    I agree with Blackthorn99! I get on the scale every morning it keeps me in check. One other thing know that there will be ups and downs. I only record the downs. Then I know I can not record again until I get past my lowest point.

    This has been the best site I have found and it is all about the focus. :-)
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