How often do you weigh yourself?
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I weight myself every morning before breakfast, but only record it once a week. Like others have said it helps to see what affects my gains and losses.0
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Daily but i log it weekly0
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I try to weigh myself everyday just so I don't get any nasty surprises...it also helps me keep on track because if I see a gain one day I can work out more that day0
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I weigh myself every morning. After I use the toilet, then I weigh myself. I also keep a daily weight graph and food journal.0
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I tend to hop on the scale everyday just to see the changes and the way the weight can fluctuate throughout the day.
I don't count anything as "real" except once a week when I actually weigh in to update.0 -
not very often i am kinda scared to0
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I've been weighing myself every 2 weeks. Because I find that is when you can truly see if there's any improvement or not.0
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I do it every morning. I'm addicted.0
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Once a week. However, that sometimes flexes a little. If I know I'm going to be out of town, I'll weigh before I leave a few days early. So it may be 5 days between weigh in one week and 9 days the next.0
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I've realized that the scale is not my best indicator. I've found myself feeling great, only for my progress to be contradicted by the oh-so-powerful numbers registering on my scale. Oppositely, I have had times where I feel as though I have hit a plateau and the numbers indicate a significant loss. As such, I weigh myself at random intervals ( 1-2 times per month ), and have resorted to using a target outfit as my progress indicator, rather than the scale. Good luck to you, and remember the real goal is health, not society's insinuated ideal weight.0
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I do it once every few weeks. Since I've moved I can't even find my scale now. For me, I do much better knowing how my clothes fit than looking at the scale.0
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I weigh every day. I have been told that it is not good to do that! But I cannot help it. I realize the initial weight loss is fast but it does slow down and stall after that!
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I weigh myself almost daily. I measure once a month.
I know that it might go up and down but it helps me keep my nutrition in mind and if numbers go up too much for too many days in a row I know I need to check my routine. Am I sleeping enough? Am I running the same route too often? Am I eating more junk food and saturated fat than I should be eating?
Watching daily just keeps me on track. I know that eating 1200 calories in donuts and lots of saturated fat and I won't lose anything even though I burned 1000 calories in exercise. I can do the same workout but eat 1800 calories in healthy snacks and lean meats and veggies an step on the scale to lose 2lbs.0 -
I have found the best way to weigh myself is every other week. If I weigh myself every week I sometimes hold water and show a gain when I have been faithfully following my food and exercise plan. That can put me in a tail spin and result in my having a hard time. So when I started weighing myself every other week I found I was more often showing a loss and I feel better about not being so dependent on the scale.0
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Lol ... Good point!0
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It seems like this question has been adequately answered, but I'm often asked this, so I figure I'll pipe in here.
I weigh myself several times a day. I know I'm generally my highest when I go to bed, and my lowest after I workout before showering. The latter is my "official" weight each day. I know that my weight will bounce around. I'm not only measuring fat loss, but hopefully muscle gain as well. And finally, I know that water retention will probably cause my weight to vary quite a bit.
I don't concern myself with my daily ups and downs, or even my ups and downs throughout the week. Instead, I watch the overall slope of the graph of my weight. if i see it going down over time, I'm happy. If I see spikes, I curse, roll with it, and move on.
It's a long and hard journey. I didn't get to 350 pounds overnight; I didn't come back down to 270 overnight; I'm not going to meet my next goal of 250 overnight; and I'm not going to get to my ultimate goal, whatever that is, overnight either. I'm patient, committed, and I'm certainly not going to let minor setbacks derail me.0 -
I weigh in on Sunday's since its a start to a new week. My friend weighs in on Monday's.0
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Every morning. If the scale is up, I seriously re-evaluate my previous day's diet.0
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Everyday. Everyone knows there are flucuations because of water but you can spot a trend over the course of several days to see the general direction. When i was working out everyday I woud even weigh myself before and after the workout. A couple pounds over yesterday (even knowing it's water relates) would just provide more motivation to do more. Afterwards it was more for seeing how much I lost in water (sweat).0
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I only weigh myself once a week. Any more often than that and I drive myself crazy wondering what I may have done wrong that day if I see a gain, etc. I always in first thing in the morning.0
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