Do you "check in" when your weight goes up?

i log in once a week and whatever it is gain or lose i log it in. u got to take the good and the bad

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I weigh every day so don't record all the fluctuations. I check in a new low weight and when a gain has stuck around for a while. Just recorded a total of 6lb up from my MFP low weight :frown:

I weigh daily but don't log the loss until it holds for a few days or so. Today I weighed a pound less than my last log but I won't log it until I know it's going to stick. That way I don't have to go back and forth.

If the weight gain doesn't go away in a few days, such as after the holidays or vacation, yep.

I have recorded weight gains in the past back when I was trying to make sense of everything- evaluate what happened- etc. etc. But now I don't bother because (a) if it's just water after a big workout or regular day-to-day fluctuations it doesn't bother me so much anymore and (b) I have 'friends' on MFP now so it seems kind of weird getting congratulated for the same 1lb loss 2-3-4-5 times. So now I just let it go- weigh in every day- and record the new lows. If I genuinely fell off the wagon and felt the weight gain was real then yes I would record it.

I'm one of those *daily weighers* too. Every morning I just HAVE to step on the scale and see what they say. I know this isn't helping me, but it's a morbid fascination. I log in my weight every Tuesday and that's the one everyone sees.

As I only started a week or so ago, I haven't had a gain yet, but I feel it's just as important to log these as it is our losses. We all have bad days, weeks etc. We are all on here because until we took control, we weren't making ourselves accountable for our bad eating habits. There is nothing wrong with logging a gain at all. We are human and we are not infallible! If you lose a few lbs from a gain that you have had, why not post a comment underneath that it is exactly that. And you SHOULD feel proud for losing those lbs again! It means that you have taken responsibility for slipping up and done something about it again and you deserve the congratulations you get!

This is a journey that we are all on together, it is NOT easy and the support we get from everyone is how we get to our goals. It's GOOD to know that I am not the only person who can slip up. It makes me work harder to know that people are behind me cheering me on whether I lose or am having to lose a gain to get back on track.

Good luck to everyone and feel free to add me if you need any support, I sure know that I do! :flowerforyou:

I only weigh once/week and I put weight gains and losses. If not, I'm only cheating myself.

I do yes, otherwise I feel guilty about it

I weigh once per month, but I only log losses. Not because I'm ashamed or in denial, but because it frustrates and discourages me to see that number on my ticker constantly going up and down, up and down... It helps me remember that, even though I may have gained or stayed the same, I was at the weight listed on my ticker just a few weeks ago. I WILL get there again, I've just gotta keep working at it.

The first time I went up, I didn't...and then changed my mind a day later. MFP is about being HONEST with yourself--honest about what you've eaten, what you've done to exercise, etc.--and part of that is accepting that your weight WILL go up and down, not just steadily downward.

That said, I don't count any weighing I do during the week except for my Friday morning 'official' weigh-in. I check myself a few times a week to gauge my progress but I don't obsess about the numbers. I know that only Friday counts.

There is another good reason to record the gains, by the way. Later, you will be able to look back and see the pattern. Did you gain because it was that time of the month (if you're a woman) or was it just after a vacation or a party? I saw a spike the week I went off my BP medication. My body felt it, too, and I really felt down and demoralized. But the steady loss since then has been a reminder that the gain was only temporary--and something that was mostly out of my control.