People who weigh themselves daily

I have been experiencing this exact same thing! I'll be good all week. Have one cheat meal on the weekend and I'm up 5+ lbs on Monday! It's soooooooo frustrating.

This is what I decided to do and I'm only trying it this week so I'll let you know how it goes...

I decided that I didn't want to reward myself with a cheat meal anymore.
If I wanted to have a piece of chocolate or some fro-yo or whatever during the week, I'd have it.
I would just make sure that I made more good choices than bad ones for the day.
And if I knew I was going to cheat I'd try to do it in the morning so I had the rest of the day to burn it off.

That way you're not building this excitement and anxiety over one meal but you're spreading your rewards throughout the week.
I'm still going to reward myself this weekend by not working out (I worked out everyday this week) and by getting a massage.
I feel like looking forward to a meal or food in general can get dangerous and might be costing me (us) all our hard work!
If we know it's our only cheat meal all week we might overindulge without realizing it.

I was having the exact the same problem for months. But I refused to give up my cheat day (which turned into entire weekends), my beer and the sugar in my coffee. I was stuck at a plateau for months because of this. a lot has changed in the past few weeks. I now log in EVERYTHING (so long cheat days), I gave up sugar in my coffee, I've cut back on beer about ten fold and increased my workout time. I'm now dropping weight at a steady pace again. Weighing in every day definitely helps me stay focused but I don't deprive myself of the good stuff. Instead of a slice of deep dish pizza (my favorite), I'll now have 1 or 2 slices of thin crust... BUt not before stuffing my face with salad Keeps me from over eating. Instead of a 6 pack of blue moon, I know have 1 or 2 miller lights. It's quite an adjustment and it took me some time. But once you get the hang of it, it becomes second nature. Good luck!!!

I weigh myself every morning as soon as I wake up, I only enter my weight loss when it drops below my last mark. If I don't weigh myself at the same time every day you will see a big fluctuation in weight. I have weighed myself at night and woke up and was 5lbs lighter.

I'm a daily weigher .. and do the same as above
I also don't take it too heart if I'm a little higher than the previous day, just as I don't jump around doing the hippy-hippy shake if I'm a little lower than the previous day.

Exactly why I don't have a cheat day. I feel it negates all of my work. So if I am craving something I have a bit that day, but not enough to ruin everything. If you aren't seeing weight loss, then you just may have to get rid of that cheat day and make it a lifestyle change to eat healthy every day with moderate treats just once in a while.

All this talk about weighing yourself every day... To several times a day, has me exhausted just thinking about it. You should log it as some light cardio.

I think the issue may be the weekly cheat meal. A cheat meal should be less frequent to spike the metabolism and honestly give you a break from the routine. Each week seems slightly excessive and it appears you are not doing what needs to be done on the weekends.

I weigh daily as well and realize there will be fluctuations but don't let them affect me to point of becoming crazed. Its like the stock market. Ride it out for good results.

I've had this happen so many times. When you are trying to lose all you want to see is the same weight or a loss. In any case, I do weigh myself everyday, generally right before going into the shower. It stays about the same at that time of day. I weigh every day because it keeps me honest with myself. For example, I wasn't surprised at my weight loss group meeting when I didn't lose anything this week.

As for the 'cheat meal', I think that's a fiction. It's just a meal and the calories need to be counted. I am trying to use the zig zag method so that if I have two days with pretty real hunger pangs they'll be alleviated on the third day when I'm allowed to consume more calories. That feels like a 'cheat' day to me and I'm so grateful to be fed!

I weigh daily but record weekly on the same day. I keep track weekly in a spread sheet to view my fluctuation. I'm mostly doing this because I want to see if I have ever truly broken a plateau and when I get out of it.

I love the idea of "saving up calories" :happy:

Kind of like rollover minutes I guess different things work for different ppl. I don't save mine up...I say bye o

Okay, I was at the same point FOR A YEAR. Here's the 'magic' fix that finally let me conquer those 5lbs gained/lost and actually lose real weight and keep it off, even having fun on the weekends.

1. Log. Everything. Be honest. If in doubt, over-estimate. This means weekends and extravagant meals on the weekends, too.

2. Log everything you DRINK. Vodka, beer, sips of soda. Everything. It does add up.

3. Create a deficit, or "padding" if you will. The way my week goes is very structured and it's easy for me to meet calorie goals, and even have leftovers most days, especially when I exercise. So if I save up some calories through the week, having my extra freedom on the weekend will not hurt as bad. The Android mobile app has a way of seeing your weekly calories on a chart... that's what you need to pay attention to.

4. You can weigh every day, but make your official weigh-in day on Wednesday. Do not log your weight on Monday, as you will most likely be up. That gives you all day Monday and all day Tuesday to work off whatever extra you got from the weekend.

5. Celebrate, because every week, as long as you're honest, you should lose weight.*

*Unless you've compensated with muscle, in which case, check measurements.


Once I bumped my head and finally figured this out, I lost 20lbs. My ticker only says 10, but I had gained weight by not giving A F over Christmas, only to turn around and lose it and then some.

Hold yourself accountable, and you will see results. I did. I can fit into my skinny jeans now that I had been glaring at for over 9 months.

I weigh daily. If I only weighed at intervals, I would have no idea where I was in the weight fluctuation cycles on the days when I weigh in. I weigh first thing in the morning. I record a new low here whenever I get one. I track the rest on a notepad and mark the highs in each cycle. The cycle in between the lows are varying numbers of days. I think there are a lot of factors affecting weight: water retention or not, how much you sweat, constipation or loose bowels, how much salt you consume, the weight of the food you eat, and who knows what all else. Over time, my lows keep slowly getting lower and my highs keep slowly getting lower too. As long as I can keep the trend going in the right direction, I'm happy.

I weigh myself every day sometimes, especially if I want to see how a particular food/meal has affected my body. If I eat something I normally don't I'm curious sort of thing... I never end up weighing myself every single day of the week though, but I might do it like 4 days in a row here and there. I used to be really bad with handling the ups and downs but I'm getting better now because even though I'm up half a pound here and there in the week that half a pound and more drops off a few days later, and I keep having to buy smaller and smaller clothes, so I know I'm getting smaller.

I weigh myself 2x weekly - I feel this makes me more accountable than just 1x week, but I don't obsess as much as if I was doing it daily.

i do this too!

I weigh myself at least once a day, sometimes even several times a day. However, I only log and compare the number every week or two, not everyday. I don't really really see it as an obsession, I'm just the curious type who likes to see trends and understand the many ways my body reacts to certain things, how much water weight can I "gain" in a day, what a difference a workout makes, etc...

I'm a super nerd, so I put my daily weight measurement into a spreadsheet. Then I have a line chart showing my weight over time. What's good about this is that every day it will vary quite a bit from the previous day. But I can look at the trend over time and see that it's going down. It helps me focus on the big picture, and not each individual measurement.