Poll: How often do you step on the scale?

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  • fragilegift
    fragilegift Posts: 347 Member
    on average twice a day, morning and before bed. Maybe a third time before a shower if that falls between hopping on the scales. At night I like to guess what it will be in the morning. If seeing weight fluctuations every day bothered me I might avoid it, but it doesn't. I can easily not get on. I only record a weight it if has been the same two mornings in a row though.
  • meechi53
    meechi53 Posts: 195 Member
    I weighed 2x a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays but then when I hit my plateau and didn't lose anything for over 3 weeks, I started getting obsessive, weighing every morning sometimes 2x a morning waiting for my plateau to break and all of a sudden lose 2 lbs overnight like I've seen people write about. Still hasn't happened......... I know I need to chill and take it down a notch..
  • Cindy_Fit4Life
    Cindy_Fit4Life Posts: 147 Member
    I personally hate the scale and prefer to focus on NSV's. I do weight training so I'm pretty much replacing muscle for fat so my weight does not change much but I can see my body transforming. I weigh in once every two weeks! Sometimes the scale can be a huge appointment's so NSV's for me!
  • hanahlai
    hanahlai Posts: 281 Member
    I think of it as a science experiment, and I like to know how various foods and activities affect me and how fast they appear to burn. If it drives me crazy, then I stop for a bit. This helps keep me in line. If I didn't do it very often there's no telling how motivated I would stay. It's a personal thing preference, and everyone is different.
  • About every 3-5 Days, it all depends on if I remember to. At first I weighed every day and the fluctuation was discouraging even though I was losing over all. I usually weigh first thing in the morning.
  • rbn_held
    rbn_held Posts: 691 Member
    First thing every morning
  • Awkward30
    Awkward30 Posts: 1,927 Member
    Multiple times a day. It actually keeps me from being frustrated about slow losses because at some point in the week I generally dip to a new low, which may or may not be visible on weigh in day. I don't log these weight fluctuations, but I like to see them!
  • JKilty
    JKilty Posts: 75
    I weigh myself about once or twice a year when I go to the doctor. Last year was more, since I was pregnant :smile:
    We don't own a scale. I just go by how my clothes fit and how I look in the mirror.
  • FlamencoGal
    FlamencoGal Posts: 126 Member
    Once or twice a month. I am way more interested in my measurements, and how my clothes fit. My body flucuates too much to weigh every week. I would get depressed if I didn't lose, or even more depressed if I gained!!!!
  • puckers82
    puckers82 Posts: 200 Member
    Once a week on a Tuesday morning, in the same spot.
  • Slim_Donna
    Slim_Donna Posts: 44 Member
    Every morning and i only log when i see a loss. Sometimes i weigh myself during the day or in the evening.
  • cgray
    cgray Posts: 129 Member
    Once a week over the summer, once a month during the winter. Or rather, during the school year. I get busy.
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