I usually weigh everyday first thing in the morning (except on mornings when I know I'll weigh in heavier because I ate a particularly salty meal the night before or something). But I only count Wednesday as my official "weigh in" day. That's when I write the weight down on in my food journal and update my tracker here. My weight can fluxuate 2-3 pounds a day...one day I'm at 165, the next 168. I've been counting calories and losing weight since Feb. 2003, so I'm used to it. To me, it's helpful to be able to recognize patterns and know what can contribute to the weird spikes.
I weigh every moring and sometimes before bed. It helps keep me on track and makes me want to work even harder when I see numbers dropping. Sometimes during a very hard workout I will visualize my goal weight on the scale in my head and it keeps me going.
QOTD answer: I'm transitioning from a daily weigher to a weekly (because of this competition) weigher. So I'm really careful with sodium in the couple days before my weigh in! Maybe later on I'll do monthly? Or switch back to daily?
I'm a rehabbing daily do'er. But it just really makes no sense to see the .6 up, 1.3 down business, so I decided (just this morning, btw! ) to stick to once a week. I might check in at the half-way point. I might.
QOD...I am a weekly weigher. It would drive me crazy to weigh in every day...it drives me crazy doing it once a week! I do it first thing after I go potty in the nude. Even take my rings off...everything comes off.
OK, I am home, and very little damage was done. Since there was no lunch yesterday, I was able to have a beer and a burger at dinner and stay OP. No lunch today either, but some chocolate chip cookies for travel. Still within my cals for the day, plus LOTS of running upstairs to ride big water slides. Feeling good about life.
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Originally Posted by likenoother
I'm starting to wonder if WW is truly the plan for me. I keep quitting it and I think there is something definitely behind that. I'm tired of counting points. I've lost 130lbs, I've lost 60lbs, I've lost 40lbs, etc...You get the point so I think I can do this because I know how to lose weight its keeping it off. So I think I will take a cue from Jordan and start the "Shay Plan". Something that I can do for the rest of my life. This plan will just involve getting in more fruits and veggies, me cooking meals rather than relying on processed foods, 3 meals/3 snacks, and everything in moderation. The plan started today so I changed my weigh in days to Mondays. So I will weigh in on the 28th.
I had to ditch WW for the same reasons. It was great after DS. He nursed all the time and needed to be bounced/walked constantly, so I burned a lot of cals. It came easily, and since I was nursing, I ate something like 33 points when I hit goal weight. Really, not much of a sacrifice.
After DD, it was not as easy. She did not nurse all the freaking time, and I ended up cutting my nursing points. Even my doc said that I would make milk....cut the food in half, only eat the best, keep enough fluids to make milk. Then I got SOOOO tired of tracking points. Taking the converter, thinking about it all the time. I really hated it.
I decided that cal counting was the way to go for me. I eat many of the same things; it is easy to look at a label and see what the cals are without converting it to points. I try to hit 30 fiber a day, so I know I am getting that end of it.
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Originally Posted by GirlyGirlSebas
How often do you weigh yourself? Do you have a "ritual?" Why does your weigh-in schedule work for you?
Daily, mostly. After DD has nursed in the AM and my boobs are empty, I pee and weigh in. If I don't, I have too much room for excuses.
How nerdy am I that not only do I have a spreadsheet that tracks all my exercise and 10 day average weight but I added 10 average caloric intake as well?
How nerdy am I that not only do I have a spreadsheet that tracks all my exercise and 10 day average weight but I added 10 average caloric intake as well?
Until you have converted to charts and graphs (and I have), you have no nerdiness on me...
Hmmm. Charts and graphs. That might give me something to do tomorrow, lol. The only reason I decided to add the caloric intake was I noticed I have one good day, one bad, another good, etc. Maybe this way I can average my eating out in the long run.
Seriously though. What kind of charts and graphs are they? What are you tracking?
Evening ladies and John! Good job last week and keep up the excellent work.
I am definitely an everyday weigher (sometimes twice) and I guess I am a member of the nerdy club, as well, since each days weight immediately gets logged in an excel chart complete with a big pink and yellow graph.
If I weighed any less often than everyday I think I would find myself eating either extra calories or high sodium foods and justifying it by saying I don't weigh in for a few days. The key for me has been staying on top of the number, which is accomplished by weighing often, but also being able to tolerate the daily fluctuations without becoming crushed when there is an inexplainable gain. As far as I am concerned, I will be weighing and charting everyday for the rest of my life. It is when I don't pay attention that my weight skyrockets.
) to stick to once a week. I might check in at the half-way point. I might. 
Great job sticking to plan, onthetee 
Now I just need to go below that!
