I was just wondering what works best for you. I was weighing myself once a week: same time/same day. Last week I changed it up and did it first thing every morning. I found it fluctuated up and down/ 2 pounds- throughout the week . I am going back to once a week, I think. How often do you prefer? Thanks for sharing.

I weigh daily...I find it helps keep on track with making healthy decisions. I have a very accurate scale and a very regular eating schedule, so I don't have the problem of seeing unexpected fluctuations from day to day.

I weigh monthly. 7 days after my period starts. The same time of day each time. I cannot handle seeing the fluctuations due to hormones, salt intake, etc. Even though I know, logically, what is causing the fluctuations, I cannot deal emotionally. Doing it once a month gives me a good general idea of how I am progressing.

First of all, Tara I am very curious to know what kind of scale you have. I am in the market for a new one and it seems you are satisfied with yours. I'd love to know what it is. Thanks.

Christina, what control you have!!!

I weigh myself every morning before I eat breakfast. I record it once a week, on Mondays.

I weigh every morning, as soon as I get up. It keeps me on track - and when I see that fluctuation thing, I look at my Fitday & do the math & I can accept that it's water or hormonal and it's not "real" and I'm good

Today is SUCH a huge day speaking of weighing in.....I am less than 160 & am a NORMAL BMI!!!!!!

I like to weight myself daily first thing in the morning. The fluctuation tells me how I am doing with salt, water, food, ect. Because of the fluctuation I only record it Saturday mornings. (Or if I know I'm not going to be home on Saturday then I will count my Friday weight in). I could never do the monthly thing I like to see how I'm doing too much.

I weigh once a week at my TOPS meeting. I find that having an "official" weigh-in makes me a bit more honest than if I were just weighing myself. I do wear the same type of clothes for weighing in. I used to wear knit pants and a t-shirt, but found that once the weather got colder, well, the knit pants weren't warm enough. I've switched to wearing jeans and a t-shirt. I know that switching from the knit pants to jeans added some weight to the first weigh-in, but at least I am warmer now! Our meeting starts at 10:30 a.m. so I usually weigh-in around 9:45 a.m. I used to wait to eat my breakfast until after I weighed in (bringing a banana and a liter of water with me) but I found I was getting too hungry. Now I have a piece of toast at around 6 a.m. To me, as long as I continue to wear the jeans and t-shirt and eat that one piece of toast, I am still getting an accurate view of weight lost the previous week -- just not what I would weigh naked and starving.

Kimberly

PS. TOPS is only $25 a year!

Christina, this makes so much sense! I have a hard time accepting water weight gain right before my period. Sometimes it is like 4+ pounds!

Kimberly

I weigh myself once a week, first thing in the morning. Daily weigh-ins vary too much and play havoc on my mind. With once a week weigh-ins, as long as I am eating my acceptable calories, I always have a weight loss. I've only been dieting for 113 days, so I still need the motivation of seeing the scale go down everytime.

I weigh myself daily, every morning as soon as I get up, and I log it on an Excel spreadsheet. Each Saturday, I take that weight and log it on a separate page. Even though there are daily fluctuations, most of my weekly Saturday weight-ins generally show a decrease. It's been almost a year since I've been logging my weight, and out of all the weeks I've logged, very few show an increase in weight (well, very few up until the past couple of weeks! LOL).

I actually like to see the daily fluctuations, though. It keeps me on track for the rest of the day. If there is no change, I rarely do anything different from the previous day. If the weight is up, I'm extra diligent to stay away from the candy dish at work. If the weight is down, I'm very happy, and I think about what I did the previous day and try to copy that. The usual fluctuations do not upset me enough to cause havoc with my psyche--but the latest 3 pound increase (which still won't decrease) has gotten me a teeny bit flustered. I thought I had been quite good during Thanksgiving, but too many dinners out caused a gain that I'm still trying to get rid of. But I'm watching it daily and I know I'll overcome the slump.

I am another every day weigher. I just like to see it daily, even though I know its going to fluctuate. It helps to keep me on track and lets me catch problems (like not drinking enough water, which causes me to retain pounds of water) earlier than if I did a weigh-in once a week.

Yet another daily weigher here. I've been doing this for the past 15 years or more and can't break the habit. This was especially useful when I was maintaining (which was the case most of my life). If I gained a few pounds but did not fluctuate down again within a few days, I knew it was time to "chill" a bit on the food intake or I'd step up the exercise for a little while. For now, while losing, I love rushing to fitday.com's report section after weighing to see my average weight change over the last week, 2 weeks, month and 2 months (I do them all...LOL). I am one of those obsessive tracker types..I find it fun

I used to weigh daily. Now I'm doing it weekly because I SERIOUSLY was WAY too into the number. I may go back to daily at some point, but for now this is better for me. It is hard to see it go up or not go down after a week, though, which happens sometimes because it is that one 'water weight' day or whatever. But I can handle one day a week of that more than every day!

I weigh daily (usually) but I only record it when it goes down OR when it goes up from my lowest weight by more than 3 lbs....which it never has. I know my body fluxuates about 2-2.5 lbs upwards, but it's never been more than that. So I know if I go up by more than 2.5 lbs it's probably a real gain and not a fluxuation!

Rockinrobin:
I have a Tanita BF-679 digital scale. I bought it at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. It gives weight by 0.2 pound intervals and gives a body fat percentage as well. It never varies more than 0.2 pounds if I step on it a couple times in a row. I bought it a few years ago, so I'm not sure if it is still available.