Scale = Enemy

The last time I dieted I had to weigh myself in every day. I was addicted to the scale. Sure enough the first time the numbers rose I quit my diet. Now I only weigh myself in once a week (Sunday evening). The pathetic part is if I had not quit I would have been at my goal weight years ago.

I have to force myself to only get on the scale once a week or I will go crazy with the up and down. I only want to weigh in every other week but I'm in a group so have to every Wednesday. What about you? How often do you weigh in?

I was weighing in daily, but my weight fluctuates so much day to day, that I am now trying to weigh in once a week. I also measure my stomach and check my body fat on that same day.

I like it better because I can actually see bigger changes in my stomach inches and my body fat percentage!

It also helps me not to sweat it so much and move into this whole thing as a lifestyle. I always am asking myself as I make changes what I am willing to continue to do for the rest of my life. Even if the changes are slower, I will eventually get there and not get so burned out!

But that is just what has been working for me. Good luck!

I weigh every morning and sometimes at night, too. I know that my weight fluctuates from day to day and weighing more often keeps me on track. When I started to gain weight I didn't weigh often. I would go to the gym and weigh occasionally and it started to go up, but I thought, "Oh, it's just a bad day. I probably haven't really gained anything." Next time the same thing happened and again I thought it was probably just that I had gained a few, but mostly that I was weighing high that day. Next thing you know it is several months and several pounds later.

While trying to lose weight I could see how weighing more often could be crazy making, but I could also see that it is reassuring at times to know that you are seeing a downward trend. Weighing once a week or less doesn't make your weight more accurate. It just means you don't know if you are on the high or low end of your fluctuation that week. For example, my weigh in day is Saturday. Today I weighed the same as I did last Saturday. But, I also know that on Wednesday my sodium was high and I weighed 2 lbs heavier on Thursday. That two pounds is now gone and maybe (or maybe not) tomorrow I will see more of an actual loss. But at least I know what was going on. If I had only weighed on Thursday I would have thought I gained for the week and been more discouraged.

Anyway, do what works for you.

I weigh everyday and log it everyday because I enjoy the data. I can see the trends and I'm okay with seeing fluctuations. I even find them fascinating. I just look at my valleys over time to see the downward trend.

I didn't mean to double post. I thought I was editing. Oops.

I weigh in every morning, after I've been to the loo and before I eat or drink anything - buck nekkid to get my truest weight. I do it to keep myself on track. I know there will be fluctuations up and down, and I acept that. I use it so that I cannot make excuses and think "Well, I'm not weighing in for another 4 days, so I can have a blow-out today and still pull it all back by then." Every time I go down I log that weight as my lowest to date and it stays at that on my log till it goes down again. I usually don't fluctuate up the way for more than a dayor two or by more than a pound or so. Then it comes back down to the logged weight, then it creeps down another notch and I log it again.


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I weigh myself once a week beause I know otherwise I become obessed with what the scale says and thats never a good thing.

I weigh everyday. I log my loses on here, but I have an iPhone app that I use to log my weight every day and I can see from that, that I go up at certain times of the month. Keeps me on track...