I tried weighing myself daily, and it drove me nuts. It's kind of like the saying "A watched pot never boils." In my case it's more like "A watched scale never moves."
And as stupid as this sounds, weighing at night always makes me feel better, because I know that when I weigh in the next morning, it will almost always (almost always!) be less than when I went to bed. I have no idea why, but I find that helpful mentally.
I do that too. Once I got past the mental gasps seeing the silly thing fluctuate 2 to 2 1/2 lbs in one day, I decided to start weighing every morning so I could track what fluctuations are normal for me - and to compare to my food log to see what I might have eaten that caused an up or a down or a stall - and sort of naturally progressed to twice a day. I also like looking at that afternoon weight and reminding myself that even though it's higher than it was in the morning, it's still a lot lower than the first weight I logged
Last edited by yoyonomoreinvegas; 03-20-2008 at 11:50 AM.
I have a calendar whiteboard. I just started my diet on Monday, so I think I am only going to track Monday and maybe Friday on it. I have a scale in my bathroom and I can't resist weighing myself everymorning after I pee.
I'm an everyday weigher. The more I keep it on my mind, the better I do for the day. I guess I have the unique ability to get excited for the losses and shrug off the temporary gains. I also find that I lose relatively steadily when I stay on track, .5 pounds down every other day or so. Which is always encouraging.
As far as my ticker? I only update it when I've been that weight or lower for atleast 3 days. Or, the same thing if I've gone up. I update my weight on mydaily plate daily.
For my official weight loss, I weigh myself on Friday late afternoon, fully clothed (jeans & t-shirt) with tennis shoes on, because that is the weight my doctor will see when I go to her office next, and that is what I was wearing when I started my weight loss journey.
I will weigh myself throughout the week here & there, just because I'm not very patient. But I won't let any of those get me down, because as I tell myself Friday is my official. And no matter what, I know that I'm not eating as poorly as I was 3 weeks ago.
I tend to weigh once a week if I do it more that that I tend to get discouraged from the fluctuations. I know thats prbly dumb but I still cant help it
This is my first post, so please bear with me if I am doing it incorrectly.
I get on the scale two times a day. In the morning, I get up and do my regular bathroom routine, then weigh. At night after I get ready to get in the bed, I get back on. I do recognize that I will weigh less in the morning, so it's the morning number that I focus on (and spaz out about).
Its so weird that I found this thread cause I just stepped off the scale. My offcial weigh in is Sunday morning but I caved to the temptation of getting on the scale this morning since my week has been so bad. (Not coming to the forum this week probably contributed to that) Usually I can make it from Sunday to Sunday though.
