Daily or Weekly?
 

Does everyone weigh daily or weekly? I've been weighing myself daily and have been feeling really down and upset today because of it; I am now thinking I need to get rid of my "habit" and start weighing in once a week.

For those of you who weigh each week, what day do you weigh in on and why? Someone told me to do the middle of the week, but I feel like it doesn't or shouldn't really matter which day I weigh in if I am staying on track.

I weigh daily, but it doesn't bother me (TOO much) to see my weight fluctuate up some. On the other hand, if I weighed weekly and my weight happened to have fluctuated up that day . . . I'd be really depressed because I didn't see it was lower the day before or the day after.

Also, the way my brain works would hurt me. Given time with no new data, I tend to inflate expectations: If I weighed only on Mondays, by Sunday night I would have convinced myself I'd probably lost 4 pounds, easy, and then be all bummed to see I only lost 2 (even though that's a great rate of loss).

But people are different. Heck, the same person is different at different stages of this complicated process.

I think maybe I am just down because of the TOM water weight I think I am carrying around right now. I honestly don't know if I can not weigh myself daily.

Shmead: How much of a fluctuation do you normally see when you do notice your up? Also, do you count your carbs or just generally eat healthy while consuming carbs?

Everyday....sometimes several times a day... This is a new trend to me , I don't know why I started this:?:???( Just did---really!)

I'm going to try for the next week, just once a week and see how I do:^:

This past winter we had company over and a gal came out of our bathroom laughing and said " why do you have a scale in there?" Myself, my DH, and everyone in the room thought it was strange... Doesn't everyone have a scale in their bathroom????

I weigh every day. I tried to weigh weekly when I started my program again. That didn't last long. I guess I'm a creature of habit. I like being able to see the fluctuations.

Daily for me as well :)

Shoes27 , I'm not the poster you were talking to, but , somedays I see a difference of 3-4lbs.on the scale..

I am counting calories , my focus is on higher protein and lower carbs.
( I'm just new to this so just sharing what I'm doing)

I weigh daily as well. It can be hard to see the fluctuations but then i think about the past couple of days, did i have sodium, did i exercise alot, etc. so then i put it all in perspective. I like to weigh daily to make sure i'm not going the wrong way.

You can check out the "June Daily Weighing" thread to get an idea of the fluctuations folks see day to day. The first few pages give you a good over view. I lot of us put a note for when it's TOM or if we binged the day before, that sort of thing. If you do decide to weight daily it's a good group to be part of for the moral support on those occassional up-ticks. This is my first month of recording my daily weights. Before I pretty much weighed every day but only counted Friday's result. I'm finding this daily process interesting but then I don't get very bothered when the scale doesn't go in the right direction every day.

I don't even have a scale in my house. If I did I would be on it all the time! I weigh once a week at my friends. I too am new at this. Just what I am doing.

I weigh every morning, no clothes, after the bathroom visit. I record my weight daily, but only count it officially as "on record" for Sunday morning weigh ins.

I , also like Shan .weigh everyday (like I said above) but use use only the ONE time a week weigh in for "official weigh in":)

I weigh weekly. I tried weighing daily and it just drove me bonkers because it made me feel like I was never going to get anywhere losing weight. Weighing weekly has helped me keep better track of my general progress. I used to do it on Fridays, to keep the number in mind if I wanted to overeat during the weekend. However, I've been at my parents' house or elsewhere over the weekends these past couple months so I shifted to Wednesdays because I'm pretty much always at home during the week. (I have to weigh on my scale. I'm pretty particular about that.)

I used to weigh weekly, but since I've moved and now bought a scale of my own last week I've been doing it every day. I used to have to go next door to use a scale, and since I refuse to do it any other time but in the morning before I eat or drink I was too lazy to do it more than once a week. Now I see it there in the morning when I walk into the bathroom and can't resist my own curiosity. I may have to hide the thing in a cabinet, lol.

I have a question for daily weighers. How does your loss usually show up? I know that weight fluctuates, but do you tend to see your loss gradually through-out the week? Or is it more sudden, like you're about the same weight then go down a pound in a day or two?

I weigh around twicw per week but I only make a official note of my weekly weigh in which is Thursday mornings. I started my plan on a Thursday and as such I am sticking to it. TOM affects weekly weigh ins too but I am sure that it would affect daily ones more. I dont think I can deal with all the fluctuations that come with daily weigh ins and as such weekly ones work for me.