how often do you weigh yourself?

Sid1988
Sid1988 Posts: 170 Member
edited 1:24AM in Health and Weight Loss
I seem to have fallen into a trap of weighing myself everyday, one day the scales will tell me something different to the next (either more or less).

How often should i be weighing myself?

Thanks.
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  • DesireeLovesOrganic
    DesireeLovesOrganic Posts: 456 Member
    I do everyday as well. Keeps me on track personally. If I don't I slack a bit. LOL
  • dinkydudette
    dinkydudette Posts: 71
    I've started doing it just once a month, when I'm feeling thinnest and I remember. It's so easy to obsess about all the little changes but mostly it's just water.
  • DaniKenmir
    DaniKenmir Posts: 387 Member
    I do it every day, I always have! It can be really uplifting, or make you feel pretty bad, but I always remember the final judgement is the mirror as you may have gained muscle
  • robvaleri
    robvaleri Posts: 7
    I weigh in everyday also, but only record once a week. I agree that it helps keep me on track though seeing the roller coaster can give me anxiety :)
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    I weigh in every other week. I have a tendency to bounce up and down even if I stay at my daily calorie goal and a lot is water weight, so I usually show an accurate loss on the second week.
  • ferrytrip
    ferrytrip Posts: 497 Member
    :sad: all the flippin time, it's my new vice
  • chezileigh
    chezileigh Posts: 255
    I think I'm going to do it once a week. Doing it every day would just stress me out because of increases which aren't necessarily diet related but water etc.
  • Pimpmonkey
    Pimpmonkey Posts: 566
    once a week
  • 1992cmw
    1992cmw Posts: 19
    I use to weigh myself everyday because I was obsessed with my weight(losing it). I suggest you weigh yourself once a week or once every two weeks. You should do it early in the morning after you wake up and have used the bathroom. I suggest either Mondays or Fridays.
  • cburky911
    cburky911 Posts: 89 Member
    Weight can fluctuate from day to day and from morning to afternoon to evening. I got rid of the scales in my house so that I would not get caught up weighing myself every day (or multiple times each day). I weigh myself once a week on the same day (most of the time). Usually it's Sunday, but there have been a few times where I've weighed in on Saturday for different reasons.

    I always use the same scales (in the gym at work).

    I weigh myself in the morning before eating breakfast.

    I wear the same clothes every time I weigh in.

    Maybe a little bit OCD...but this way I know that the numbers on the scale are an accurate reflection of what I've lost and not a product of what I may have just eaten, water weight, time of day, clothes I'm wearing, etc.

    This is what works for me.
  • DietandVlogsense
    DietandVlogsense Posts: 48 Member
    I seem to have fallen into a trap of weighing myself everyday, one day the scales will tell me something different to the next (either more or less).

    How often should i be weighing myself?

    Thanks.
    Weekly, or at most twice weekly, should be enough.

    Remember, you weight will fluctuate, in both directions, depending on many factors, including have you just eaten, how hydrated are you at this point, have you been to the toilet this morning, etc, etc.
  • 33neenaj
    33neenaj Posts: 306
    Once a week
  • piratesaregrand
    piratesaregrand Posts: 356 Member
    Two or three times a day. I only record Monday mornings one though.

    For me I'm interested in how much it can change during the day, so the number never worries me.
  • KaonaRose
    KaonaRose Posts: 9
    I know I have become obsessive about it in the past (I would weigh myself after every meal or snack), so now I'm trying to stick to once a week, twice max.
  • DaveC29
    DaveC29 Posts: 232 Member
    I weigh myself daily...

    I record them and take the average of the past 10 days to record here. Averaging takes out all the highs and lows from my daily diet, so you don't stress out over those 2 pounds you 'gained' over night, or get really excited about the pound you 'lost' after a hard workout.

    Perhaps a little too much for some, but it works for me!
  • meggonkgonk
    meggonkgonk Posts: 2,066 Member
    Everyone does what works for them here, but if you like to weigh yourself everyday, but find it kind of makes or breaks how you feel, I suggest keeping a weekly comparison log- in excel or some other program, record your weight everyday, but make it a weekly grid so you are comparing your weight to what it was on the same day last week- Monday to monday, instead of monday in relation to Sunday and Tuesday. It's better for your sanity, and, I find, a better barometer for how you are doing.
  • AlexLee13
    AlexLee13 Posts: 2
    I normally weight myself once a week, but now that it's summer I am weighing myself more and more! :smile:
  • BaDaSsBrUnEtTe
    BaDaSsBrUnEtTe Posts: 518 Member
    I do everyday as well. Keeps me on track personally. If I don't I slack a bit. LOL

    Same here
  • 3LittleMonkeyMom
    3LittleMonkeyMom Posts: 259
    Once a week. Thinking of going once a month though...because I drive myself crazy if I don't see the loss I want. I wonder what I did "wrong". Silly brain. :)
  • jjtl0811
    jjtl0811 Posts: 7 Member
    I weight in once per week. Every Tuesday morning! My weight changes so much on a daily basis. I've always heard that to be accurate you should weight the same day of the week at the same time!
  • HLeAnn
    HLeAnn Posts: 261 Member
    I do it "officially" once every week or 2 weeks. I do occasionally weigh myself every couple days out of curiosity to see how my body fluctuates. It's kind of amazing. I can fluctuate up to 5 or 6 lbs heavier some days. In the end, I know I'm eating at a defecit and working out so in the long-term I WILL lose fat and I'm not worried about the scale so much.
  • melindadunston
    melindadunston Posts: 157
    I weight myself once a day, every morning, naked. That way I know what my body is doing. If I wait and do it once a week I may get lazy and let the pounds go back on! They can jump on quickly if you aren't careful!
  • OnionMomma
    OnionMomma Posts: 938 Member
    I weigh in once a week, Friday mornings, just out of bed still in my PJs after going potty of course....LOL

    As a woman, I know my weight will fluctuate too much to weigh every day, I would drive myself nuts if I did that.
  • andivaclavicek
    andivaclavicek Posts: 150
    Daily. I don't freak about the flucuations and it helps keep me on track. This doesn't work for everyone, though.
  • glengiles
    glengiles Posts: 147
    Tracking food and exercise - every day.

    Weighing - once a month.
  • Bobby_Clerici
    Bobby_Clerici Posts: 1,828 Member
    I weigh myself daily upon awaking before eating or drinking but after a good morning pooh.:drinker:
    And I record any gains the instant I enter a newer, lower number.
    EXAMPLE: If I was 199.9, then saw my weight creeping down day after day, I would not record a new weight on MFP until that scale said 198.9.
    And I record 198....and so on....
    Makes it more fun for me, but some people who stress out over the scale would go insane doing this.
    I get it.
    To each his own.
    I also track progress with bodyfat. Weight is not the whole picture, and the scale can lie as badly as the man in the mirror.
    You can check here for free: http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/diet.html
    Something else to obsess over? Not al all.
    Remember, you rule the numbers - not the other way around.
    Have a great day!
  • shydaisi
    shydaisi Posts: 788 Member
    I seem to have fallen into a trap of weighing myself everyday, one day the scales will tell me something different to the next (either more or less).

    How often should i be weighing myself?

    Thanks.

    You should weigh as often as works for you.

    I like to weigh daily to see how my day to day activities and food/water choices affect my weight. I have thought about weighing weekly occasionally, but there have been times where my weight on one Monday would the same from one week to the next even though there were fluctuations throughout the week.
  • daughterofthesea
    daughterofthesea Posts: 82 Member
    I used to weigh myself every day but our scales are absolutely terrible so I've given up until my semester starts in September. When that starts, I plan to weigh myself once a week when I'm in university.
  • rock127
    rock127 Posts: 369 Member
    Once a month usually but if I go to gym then once a week.
  • FitBunnyEm
    FitBunnyEm Posts: 320
    Weight can fluctuate from day to day and from morning to afternoon to evening. I got rid of the scales in my house so that I would not get caught up weighing myself every day (or multiple times each day). I weigh myself once a week on the same day (most of the time). Usually it's Sunday, but there have been a few times where I've weighed in on Saturday for different reasons.

    I always use the same scales (in the gym at work).

    I weigh myself in the morning before eating breakfast.

    I wear the same clothes every time I weigh in.

    Maybe a little bit OCD...but this way I know that the numbers on the scale are an accurate reflection of what I've lost and not a product of what I may have just eaten, water weight, time of day, clothes I'm wearing, etc.

    This is what works for me.
    this is what i will be doing from now onwards as weighing daily drove me nuts
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