How often should I weigh myself? and what time of day? This is a pretty juvenile question that I am sure has been asked by others...but for the sake of my sanity please answer.
I find that if I weight myself two hours after waking, my weight is lower than any other time of day...but is it accurate?
The weight on the scale is the sum of a whole lot of things. Fat, muscle tissue, bones, organs, water, waste products, your breakfast... etc.
It fluctuates, sometimes a LOT, throughout the day.
I weigh myself multiple times a day and write them all down on a calendar. It has helped me to see my own patterns and feel a little less freaked out about it all. I swing 2-3 lbs. throughout the course of the day, and 5-10 lbs throughout the course of my monthly cycle. It's totally normal. We're mostly made of water, afterall!
Sometimes I weigh less after I've been up for awhile and I've had some coffee to drink. Sometimes by as much as a pound!
I think that the most important thing is that you weigh yourself at the same time every day, whether that's after you wake, or after you've been up awhile. The best time is before you've eaten or had much to drink. The most convenient time for me is right after I get up.
I also weigh myself every day, and sometimes I weigh myself multiple times a day just to see what's going on. It's a great way to see patterns.
AS a rule the lowest you will weigh in a day is first thing in the morning before breakfast and any water to drink. It is accurate, of rcourse it is. As has already been said pick a time and weigh that time every day.. Of course you can weigh more frequently if you like, but I find that just causes confusion.
I'm a multiple time per day weigher, I like to see the fluctuation. If I weigh it, it counts. The lowest weight of the day wins lol.
Hahaha, that's my mantra too . I write them all down and circle the lowest with a green pen. The lowest of the week gets a happy face sticker, and the lowest for the month gets a star. What can I say, I have kids .
When you carry your groceries home, do they weigh anything?
When you eat your groceries as meals, don't they weigh something?
Do you have pee and poo in you sometimes? That weighs something, right?
Water you drink? NO fat or calories? That weighs something, right?
Accept, embrace your scale as a mere tool. If you put rocks in your pockets, your scale just reports weight. It doesn't go "Hey, why you do that rocks in pocket for?" It has no brain. It's only a tool.
So... just go with it. The scale only reports weight. It doesn't tell you what FROM. All day long your body is doing many body chemistry processes to digest, filter your blood, collect wastes for later exit from the body, etc.
Just relax. Pick a time, any time, weigh then as your "official" recorded time and then weight the rest of the time for giggles or don't weigh at all.
i weigh multiple times a day as well & my weight always fluctuates. (: but the one i use for recording & consider my "actual" weight of the day is first thing in the morning after i used the bathroom (& minus clothing as well..hahaha)
but yeah, don't freak out if it fluctuates a few pounds. like others mentioned, food, water, & all that other stuff plays a factor in how much we weigh at a current moment. i always "gain" a pound or so after eating a meal & drinking lots of water, but it eventually goes down.
You can weigh yourself as often or as little as you like. Just bear in mind that over the course of the day, as you eat, drink, use the toilet, and so on, your weight will fluctuate. If you focus on those fluctuations and let them distress you you'll go mad. So weigh as much as you like, but only count one weight. I count the first thing in the morning weight, because it seems most accurate - I haven't thrown it out by eating or drinking anything yet. If I counted the weights from later in the day I'd end up refusing to eat anything, just because of what it does to the scales!
As for the accuracy issue, the key is just making sure that the scale records trends. So, it doesn't matter if it weighs you 2 pounds differently than the doctor's scale, even if you stepped on them both one right after the other. It's a tool to measure progress and to use to adjust your plan if it's not showing adequate progress. Whether the number it shows is 100% accurate doesn't matter. You don't wear that number around your neck for all to see.
I'm a multiple time per day weigher, I like to see the fluctuation. If I weigh it, it counts. The lowest weight of the day wins lol.
Love this I also used to do this until I had an accurate idea of how my weight fluctuates during the day (usually by 3lb from morning to night). I now weigh myself after my morning coffee has...ahem...done it's job
My scale has multiple personalities
. I write them all down and circle the lowest with a green pen. The lowest of the week gets a happy face sticker, and the lowest for the month gets a star. What can I say, I have kids 
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I also used to do this until I had an accurate idea of how my weight fluctuates during the day (usually by 3lb from morning to night). I now weigh myself after my morning coffee has...ahem...done it's job 
