I noticed lots of people seem to weigh daily or several times a week. I am on week 8 and weigh every Wednesday. It's just the day of the week I started my journey......anyway.....I felt *different* this morning and decided to weigh just for giggles and my scale said 236.0 - Wednesday I was 238.2 !!! I don't want to drive myself crazy with daily weigh ins though so I think I will wait until Wednesday to change the ticker and hopefully I will still be 236 or less come Wednesday!!

Congratulations!

I do weigh daily. This helps me to track my normal fluctuations. However, I only officially track Monday's number.

I've always been told to weigh in weekly (my day is Saturday...tomorrow!!). But I like how you keep track of normal fluctuations Rhonda...I'm afraid I might obsess over it though.

Way to go TXMary2!! That's awesome!

yah. I weigh daily. And when you are going through a FOUR MONTH LONG PLATEAU it's a little frustrating. But through trail and error I have found if I AVOID the scale I do more damage than good.

So I can tell you that this morning I was 200.4. And yesterday morning I was 200.6. The morning before THAT I was 199.6. I bounce from 198-203 and have for FOUR months.

Okay... that turned into a mini rant. But yah. I weigh daily. lol!!!

I weigh every day, but only change ticker on Mondays.

I weight at random times throughout the week, but Thursday is the only day I officially count.

Congrats on your loss!

cfmama, have you tried changing the amount of calories you take in a day? It helps me. I've been told that it is like tricking your metabolism. For example, a couple of days you eat 2000 calories, the next few you eat only 1500, and the next few 2500. Just switching it up, may help you get over that plateau.

tropica: yes I have done that and continue to do that periodically... does not seem to help right now

I weigh daily and track it in the daily weigh-in thread. I change my ticker once a week (Sunday).

I like weighing daily because I need everything possible to keep me accountable. For years I never, ever weighed (As in, 15 years). Obviously, I knew I had gained weight, but I was completely oblivious to the fact that I had gained 90 pounds. Getting on the scale daily means that I will never allow that to happen again.

Weighing myself on a daily basis is something I will do for the rest of my life. I don't obsess about it, I just use it as a tool to help me stay on track.

ETA: There are days when the weight I see doesn't reflect the work I'm doing, and that can definitely knock you down a bit in spirit. But on those days, I make sure to look at my weight chart from a month, two months ago. Seeing how far I've come never fails to make me feel better.

I weigh everyday (in the morning after I get up) and input my data into a medline weight tracker so I can chart my progress. I can't wait until a certain to weigh myself because I get too anxious.

Dhani

That must be very frustrating, but I have faith you will get it off by September 27! I read a little of your blog and you have a great mind set and this little obstacle will not get in your way, I'm sure!

You have done so well!

I still weigh myself every morning...it helps me be accountable (dunno why but it just does lol) when I was losing I was fascinated by how nothing is linear with how your body lost weight. So to me the daily flucuations became a game.

I weigh and measure monthly. I found that with a weekly weigh-in I was focusing too much on scale weight, and not so much on the day-to-day successes in my plan.

I have to trust that my plan WILL work, so long as I work my plan. It gives me more focus on the mechanism (the plan) rather than the results (the weight). It also moves me away from the "I have to lose 2 pounds a week or I'm a failure!" mentality that has made me quit so many times in the past. In addition, it moves me from week-by-week thinking into a much longer view. I found in the past that I'd get so focused on THIS WEEK, that I wasn't realistic about how long this might take. Monthly weighing helps me move mentally into "this is for a lifetime" thinking, which I've never been very successful with before.

The measurements are a huge part of it, too. Last month I "only" lost four pounds (one pound/week), but I lost three inches from my hips and one from my legs and arms.

I'm just so tired of "doing this" for only a couple of months, and giving up because I don't see "enough" movement on the scale on a daily or weekly basis. I recognize the need in myself to take a longer view of the entire weight-loss journey, AND to focus more on the daily working of the plan rather than the results that will follow. So I weigh monthly, and it's helped a lot in doing away with those short-term frustrations that used to plague me.

I weight every day, but only record kg lost, so every 2.2 lbs. It's interesting to see how sometimes there is long in between, and sometimes just a few days!

I weigh in daily. I'd be better off not to. I'm neurotic though.