Do you weigh yourself everyday? Why or why not?

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  • TheRealParisLove
    TheRealParisLove Posts: 1,907 Member
    Everyday for most of my life. When things are getting out of hand, I can catch it early. I know my normal day to day fluctuations and can see if I'm moving beyond my highest "normal" weight and take steps to get back into my normal range. It is so much easier to peel off a pound or two than if I waited until I was 5+ over my normal range.
  • PaulaJeanCatlin
    PaulaJeanCatlin Posts: 5 Member
    Great Job on the weight loss!! Awesome!!
  • LeeM86
    LeeM86 Posts: 124 Member
    I weight myself everyday in the morning, but only to encourage myself to not give up. That way, if I lose some weight I feel great about it and want to keep doing what I have been doing, and if I don't lose any weight I feel more encouraged to eat healthy and exercise.
  • icemann78x
    icemann78x Posts: 17 Member
    I weigh in every morning. I keep track of the losses only though. There will be fluctuations but the idea is it should trend downwards. I don't beat myself up if I see i stayed the same or gained a pound one day because the next day or two days later It will be lower than yesterday.
  • icemann78x
    icemann78x Posts: 17 Member
    I weigh in every morning. I keep track of the losses only though. There will be fluctuations but the idea is it should trend downwards. I don't beat myself up if I see i stayed the same or gained a pound one day because the next day or two days later It will be lower than yesterday.

    It may be the Accountant in me that needs a numeric value of progress daily.
  • JayBear13
    JayBear13 Posts: 37 Member
    I'm like weirdly obbsesive over it, like I weigh every chance I get and If it changes I wait a couple days then if it doesn't go back up or down I log it
  • skellyness
    skellyness Posts: 165 Member
    Yeah I do - but I shouldn't lol, it fluctuates a lot throughout the week and usually ends up stressing me out
  • Toxictwist
    Toxictwist Posts: 274
    I used to weigh myself EVERY day. Now that I am trying to tone up, I stopped weighing myself & even got rid of my scale. I don't want to get discouraged if the # on the scale goes up since I am building muscle, I would rather feel/see the difference in how my clothes are fitting.
  • RealWomenLovePitbulls
    RealWomenLovePitbulls Posts: 729 Member
    i am guilty of weighing every day, but i only log once a week. before i started working out on a regular basis, my weight would fluctuate from day to day, now it doesnt do that, but for some reason, i still think i am going to step on the scale one day and weigh 5 pounds more than i did the day before. maybe when i get used to the fact that as long as i work for it, its not gonna happen, i will quit with the weighing all the time, right now it just reminds me that what i'm doing is worth it
  • MommaRou56
    MommaRou56 Posts: 68 Member
    Yes, I weigh every day -- morning and night (sometimes several times). I know my weight fluctuates from evening to morning, and I normally weigh about 2 lbs. less in the morning than I do at night, so if I get up in the morning, and my weight is the same as it was the night before, I know I need to put on the brakes and cut back or change what I'm doing. This keeps me on-track. I also like to look at my new, lower weight as that also keeps me motivated. I don't let a little increase get me down either; I just use that to "shape up" (figuratively and literally) and get back on track. I only record/post my weight when I've lost something (not maintained) and then I look at the MFP progress chart because it's so encouraging to see the downward trend!!!
  • ceciliadoud
    ceciliadoud Posts: 70 Member
    To the original poster: I would personally advise you not to weigh yourself every day. I know there are some pros to doing that, but at least for me there were way more cons than what the pros were worth. The last time I was seriously trying to lose weight (before I gave up), I was using Fitday.com. They had a nifty little line graph where you could input your weight and chart your weight loss...At first it was cool, and I was weighing in every day. But then, if a slip-up day happened or if I went a day without exercise, the next day I would either see no loss or a gain, and it would be very crushing to me. I guess I haven't reached the point in my life where it's not all about the scale...I find it to be much more motivating if I weigh in once a week and see that I have lost one or two pounds overall, despite what I may or may not have eaten or exercised during that week. Maybe when I finally reach my ultimate goal I will feel more comfortable with weighing in every day, but while I am trying to lose, I am only doing it once a week.
  • onpoint1920
    onpoint1920 Posts: 17
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