[linalin]

I am just wondering about the pros and cons of frequent weighing vs once a week...

When I started WW (pre-exercise), I was weighing daily and getting disappointed because I wasn't losing much. I got so down on myself about it that my friends and family talked me into giving my scale up and only weighing at my WW meetings on Saturday mornings.

Well I am missing my scale. I really enjoy weighing myself, especially since I have added a lot of activity to my routine and am getting results. I have "cheated" twice and weighed myself (we had two scales in the house, I gave my mom my nice digital one and kept my boyfriends crummy one).... last week before WW I weighed and was down about 2 pounds.
Well today I weighed and I'm down 2 more already!

How often do YOU weigh and why? Do you see a downside to daily weigh ins??

...I'm going to Walmart tomorrow and I may buy another scale

[Ekicna]

I used to weigh myself everyday but I got obsessive with counting calories and weighing myself so I decided to weigh myself once a week. I weigh myself every Monday.

[konfyoozed]

i weigh in daily, but only record my weight into my spread sheet every friday.

[TheRightWeigh]

I weigh weekly,every Thursday, and i discourage myslef, so I KNOW daily would be terrible for me..

[Rebis]

I weigh in daily and record my weight, but the weight I put into my ticker or tell anybody who asks about is my last weekly average. This way I can weigh in daily but not obsess over the number so much, as one or two days with the scale goeing up don't "ruin" my weekly loss.

I also plot my daily and my weekly weight as a function of the date in a spreadsheet on my computer and it's actually fun comparing the zigzag of the daily numbers to the steady slope of the weekly ones. It also helps putting my loss into perspective when I think the number is staying the same when I have actually lost over the course of the week.

[amandie]

I weigh daily (habit I need to break) but record it on Tuesdays.

[bananapancakes]

I weigh daily, every morning naked after I have pee'd. I feel that by weighing daily I won't let things get out of control again, I like to be in control. I'd also rather see the scale stuck over a period of days rather than think I'm losing weight only to see at the end of a week that I have been on a plateau or something making it a big disappointment on a weigh in day. I won't hide it, sometimes I weigh in a few times per day- I know this sounds unhealthy and I'm not denying that, for me it's just my way to feel in control of something in my life (all too often I've not been) and I also get gratification on seeing each ounce disappear.

[Ekicna]

I weigh myself naked after I pee as well.

[Mishflynn]

Lol, i have a small scales addiction too. I weigh
*As soon as i get up, naked after a wee
* a hour or so later after a poo
*before i go to bed.

I only record the weight on a saturday though.
I find it easier to keep track of whats going on if weigh everyday, it keeps me motivated & focased. It may be slightly obsessive, but i need that to keep me on track.
I do like to use clothes too, ive got two pairs of troursers that are testing size, one TIGHT pair & one almost there pair!

At the end of the day its whatever keeps you motivated & happy!

[summerlove]

I weigh myself a few times a week. It's pretty random.

[MiZTaCCen]

I weigh in when I feel like like it, sometimes i'll do it every day other times I won't do it for days, weeks whatever.

[aliquot]

I weigh every morning, naked, after potty time, like the others above. And I am totally ok with that.

[Andrbeck]

I weigh myself daily.. and I have noticed I've become obsessed with the number. lately.. I've been weighing myself every time I walk into the bathroom. I use Tuesdays as my offical weigh in date.. And if people as I go by what the tuesday weight is.. But it's kinda a trapped feeling. Because I just want to see the number go down and sometimes it does. and sometimes it doesnt.

[takingcontrol]

I have been weighing in daily, several times a day for the last few weeks. But, I've decided to put a stop to that, as I was obsessing over the number.

So, I weighed in on Sunday morning, and then a few times throughout Sunday, and thought enough was enough.

I was going to try and go to next Sunday morning (my official weigh in day) before jumping ont eh scales. But, I've decided to make it easier this first week, and because it's the start of a new month, I can weigh on Thurs morning for my April 1st weight, but that's it!

It's actually worrying how hard it is. I'm glad I've hidden the scales or I'd definitely have been back on them by now! I'm gonna try weekly weigh ins for a few weeks n then decide which work best for me, daily or weekly.

I think if I got over my addiction to junk food, I should be able to get over my addiction to weighing myself too, right?!

[Lurker89]

Weigh and record every day. Sometimes I write little notes to myself next to the day. I think it gives a lot of insight into weight loss. It's easy to weigh in at say, 185 one day then 183 the next, and figure you lost two pounds -but if you look at the broader numbers the trend isn't really as dramatic.

I like to think of it as a heart monitor type thing, spiking up and down. You can interpret the spikes as dramatic losses or gains, but if you print out the whole graph the process is (probably) a much more gradual creature.

This was what I had down for the third and fourth weeks of recording (minus my notes, there tends to be a lot of profanity):

Feb 18 2011 - (Morn) 193.2 LBS.
Feb 19 2011 - (Morn) 191.8 LBS.
Feb 20 2011 - (Morn) 192.2 LBS.
Feb 21 2011 - (Morn) 192.0 LBS.
Feb 22 2011 - (Morn) 192.2 LBS.
Feb 23 2011 - (Morn) 191.4 LBS.
Feb 24 2011 - (Morn) 191.0 LBS.
Feb 25 2011 - (Morn) 186.8 LBS.
Feb 26 2011 - (Morn) 189.4 LBS.
Feb 27 2011 - (Morn) 188.0 LBS.
Feb 28 2011 - (Morn) 187.6 LBS.
Mar 1 2011 - (Morn) 187.8 LBS.
Mar 2 2011 - (Morn) 186.8 LBS.
Mar 3 2011 - (Morn) 188.4 LBS.

I bolded Feb 25 and 26 to illustrate my point. If you put too much stock in individual days and numbers, it's easy to get discouraged.

Long post, I know. Hopefully you guys can get some of the encouragement I get from being OCD with numbers and order .

- L89