i was weighing myself daily and found it more frustrating. i haven't weighed myself since sunday now. i am trying to do every saturday, weekly weighs. it is killing me though. i want to weigh myself but get really upset if it shows i gained a pound after really hard workouts. just wondering what you all do?
I think I'm cutting back to once a month. I honestly do better when I'm not obsessing over the scale. It relieves pressure, but still motivates me. I don't work any less because I weigh less. If anything, I feel more positive about it because I have four whole weeks to do some serious work and then get to see those results!!
But everyone is different...I know there are a lot of every day weighers on here. It's all personal preference. Don't forget the benefits of working out and healthy eating though...the ones that aren't necessarily always reflected on the scale, I mean.
I'm not a big fan of weekly weighing. Weekly measurements are too infrequent to even out "noise", whether from water retention, TOM, a big meal the night before, or just a blinky scale. It's too easy to get frustrated by a one-time bump up, or to get complacent from an unusually low reading. Daily measurements also fluctuate, of course, but somehow it's easier to ignore one outlier measurement when you know you'll get another number tomorrow.
If you're a data geek, you could measure daily, but calculate a three-day or five-day moving average of your weight. (Easy to do in a simple spreadsheet program like Excel.) This will even out noise and give a good sense of trends.
Or, you could throw out the scale altogether, and just go by how your pants fit, how you feel, whether your lifts are going up or down (you are strength training, right? :wink, etc.
I'm a weekly weigher, but I hate it. It's all I think about all week long. I've started keeping paper and pencil in my bathroom to record my weight and anything goofy like "had too much salt day before" or TOM, etc. I'm hoping to begin seeing a trend this way. I've noticed with some of the challenges around here women will post their weekly weigh ins over the course of a few months in one simple chart. It's nice to see the fluctuations and motivates me knowing that two weeks of minimal loss is quite normal.
I weigh daily but pay more attention to the overall trend than the exact number. I log it on physicsdiet.com which keeps a 30 day (I think) weighted moving average.
I waited 72 days for my first weigh in after starting my plan and second weigh in was 63 days after that. I now weigh in @ once/month.
However, I track my calorie deficit very carefully to know I'm doing all I need to do. I think my infrequent weigh-ins might be a bit dangerous if I just thought I was doing what I needed to take the weight off.
Howdy,
I weigh in the morning, after making my bed and going potty. I got a Tanita scale for Christmas very accurate and quick.
I relied on my pants and didn't weigh for many months and was woefully disappointed when I saw I had gained 12#.
Along with accurate calorie count I wanted an objective measure. Clothes fit for me was to subjective. It was also time for me to see how my body fluctuates and daily weighing helps me to know this.
i havent been weighing myself too often. i did after the holidays because i knew that i had gained weight and i was rite. flippin 10lbs! im back on the wagon now and am going to weigh myself weekly.
its like, when i know that im doing bad i don't weigh myself because i'm scared, but if I'm doing good im weighing everyday lol.
I weigh myself almost every morning, I find that it helps me gauge how things are going. I don't obsess over it at all its just a part of my morning routine and is just another tool in my weight loss/health plan right next to my excel sheets and my blog. I say do what works for you, if you are happy with once per day cool! once per month? cool! once every 76.45 days? cool! its just a tool to gauge how we are progressing
I weigh myself every morning. If the number on the scale goes up it motivates me to eating cleaner but if it goes down then it motivates me to keep going. Now that Im eating 1800-2000 calories a day it is consistently going down everyday by like .2 lbs.
If the number on the scale frustrates you then definitely only weight once a week. Good Luck
Every morning, I need that constant accountability to myself. I know that the numbers fluctuate daily and sometimes even hourly but I just watch for the general trend.
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