Anyone else addicted to the scales?

How is your emotional status when you weigh daily? There is nothing inherently wrong with weighing daily. It isn't about the scale. It's about your personality. If you can handle the daily flunctuations without it causing you stress or to second guess what you are doing, then go for it. If you are getting wigged out when you see the numbers jump, then it is not a tool you want to use daily. Either way is perfectly fine. It's important to know where you fall on this spectrum and use or don't use the scale frequently accordingly.

i do it every am after i wake up. it's a bad habit yes, but i can't stop. For me i find it helpful to look back at what i ate the day before if i see a gain, then i know it's most likely water retention. The i look at what i ate that may of caused it and either eat less of that next time or make sure if i eat that, to drink more water....

I upped my calories this week and told my bf to hide the scale because of fear of an impending gain. He just left it where it was before (under the bathroom sink) as a "clever" hiding place :P So I kept using it all week. I might have gained a lb earlier in the week but I lost 2.6 overall in the week.

I think I would really love to avoid the scale for a few weeks and then be surprised, but I worry about it being a bad surprise. I always weigh myself at night before the weigh-in day (every monday) to see if I'll be losing on weigh-in day.... generally I lose 2.5-3 lbs on the scale overnight.

I weigh myself daily as a sort of motivational thing. If I wait a week I get lazy until the day before weigh in!

This is me. Not weighing myself often is how I've gotten into trouble in the past....but everyone is different.

Everyone is different and able to handle weighing themselves daily differently. I think part of my attitude is that my goal isn't actually scale related, I want to fit a certain size clothing and have a certain body shape (size 10, nothing unrealistic). The numbers on the scale are just a goal to help me get there, nothing else. If I can reach my goal before my goal weight, my goal weight doesn't matter anymore.

I've got the same "goal" size 8/10, although I also have a number i'd like to see on the scales too.

If the fluctuations aren't bothering you, don't worry about it.

I have been weighing daily for the past few weeks. I think it helps me stay on track. Do what works for you!

i do it every am after i wake up. it's a bad habit yes, but i can't stop. For me i find it helpful to look back at what i ate the day before if i see a gain, then i know it's most likely water retention. The i look at what i ate that may of caused it and either eat less of that next time or make sure if i eat that, to drink more water....

I'm the same way.

I was addicted and it just made me eat more - I would be unhappy with the weight and eat which made me put on more weight - so have given my scales to my mums for a month so I can wean myself off of them

I do like the idea of looking every day to make sure im not way off track. I think i'll weigh daily, but only record it weekly. LOL I did take my measurements when I started, I plan on checking them once a month.

I weigh myself three times a day. It maybe a lot but it keeps me motivated. I do it when I wake up, after my walk in the afternoon and right before bed. It doesn't bother me to see I gained a pound or two. It just tells me to keep up my good work. Normally if I see I gained in the morning I feel like ok I need to make sure of what I am going to eat the whole day before I leave the house. My Monday- Thursday goes so fast that I have to make all my meals before I leave every morning. It works for me! I don't weigh but once on the weekend which is like on Sunday before I go to bed. Weekends are to busy to care. I weigh so much durning the week cuz I have a scale at work. I don't look at it as a bad thing cuz i have tried to lose weight before and it made it worse if I didn't look at the scale. I feel it's different for everyone. I say if it upsets your real bad to see a gain then don't do it but if you understand the weights going to change from time to time them it's fine.

How is your emotional status when you weigh daily? There is nothing inherently wrong with weighing daily. It isn't about the scale. It's about your personality. If you can handle the daily flunctuations without it causing you stress or to second guess what you are doing, then go for it. If you are getting wigged out when you see the numbers jump, then it is not a tool you want to use daily. Either way is perfectly fine. It's important to know where you fall on this spectrum and use or don't use the scale frequently accordingly.

^^^ This. I am a person that, good or bad, NEEDS to weigh myself daily. even when the scale is not showing me what I want to see, if I eat too much sodium, I see the difference, and as someone working to address high blood pressure issues, I need to be able to track those kinds of fluctuations. So either way, I don't let it discourage me, I just have to make my adjustments and move forward.

I weigh in daily as a motivational thing as well. After a day that I think I did SUPER well with working out really hard and eating extremely heathly, it's such a great thing when I step on the scale and see -2lbs. I know it seems like a lot, but I also have another 100 lbs to loose. On the same note, when I have a really bad day and I know I didn't exercise at all and I may have had a horrible day, then I see +2 lbs, I know exactly what it was from and it reminds me not to do that.

I can't get out of the habit, the most I've been able to not weigh myself, is 2 days. I just say that as long as the flux doesn't mess with you mentally, you should be fine. You just have to have a thick skin when you don't see what you want.