By weighing myself every day, I have given myself peace. When I weigh daily, I am able to put the scale out of my mind for the rest of the day. If I weigh weekly, I obsess about the scale, pull myself away from it, and worst of all, I daydream about whatever lovely number it's going to give me and am then devastated when I don't lost the daydreamed 10 pounds! Weighing daily has been essential to my plan!

And I weigh frequently, whenever I want to throughout the day, but not obsessively. It's when I DON'T weight that I obsess. :dizzy: And I don't go out of my way to weigh. But if I'm in the bathroom, I will probably hop on the scale.

I probably weigh myself 4 times a day or more.

The ones that I pay attention to are my last one before bed and the first thing in the morning. With clothes on I can almost guarantee I will be 4 pounds heavier before bed than I will be when I wake up, so it's kind of like my warning if the scale is going to give me a bad number the next day. The morning weight is what matters.
Admittedly, it makes me a little neurotic to weigh in everyday, and I obsess about the number. (Especially about the last few weeks, where I'm down on Mondays, up 2-3 pounds in the middle of the week, then down again, for no apparent reason) But, weighing weekly is worse. I can see daily fluctuations and understand them. But, weighing only once a week, I don't know if a 2 pound gain is a gain or a fluctuation.

I can easily weigh myself three times a day if I let myself do it.

But I was on a plateau for months and the scale wasn't telling me anything that I didn't know already but I was frustrated that I couldn't fix it. It became depressing and annoying and it began to affect how I felt about myself that day.

I had to stop. I moved my scale to a place that's harder to just pass by and get on it (before it was in the bathroom and every time I went in, I had to step on it!).

I'm now trying to weigh myself maybe a couple of times a week. Not every day. It's hard not to know what's going on, though.

I'm off my plateau, so now I'm eager to see the weight drop off. But part of me is also scared that I'm just going to stop losing weight again and be miserable with the scale.

I'm going to focus on the cues in my body that I'm losing, rather than weighing myself every day. I'm keeping the scale tucked away -- out of sight, out of mind.

Wow... OK thank you very much you guys for making me realize I'm not going crazy!
I still haven't gotten a battery, I'm starting to think that maybe I should tough it out until tomorrow, which is my "weekly weigh-in" day. I still haven't gotten a darn battery lol. I did go to the gym though. That's more important, right?
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I'm someone who is in trouble if I'm not weighing myself daily. That's when I gain weight. I'm lost weight three times in my life (well, this being the third time) and every time I lost weight I was weighing daily. Once I stopped is when it came back. During my pregnancy I avoided scales like the plague that that was my mistake and I gained WAAAYYY too much weight!

So, I could definitely see how this would be a problem if you've struggled with something like an eating disorder but for me it's what's gets me motivated and keeps me on track. If I eat poorly one I day I have to make sure to force myself to weigh in the next day and deal with the consequences!

I can only weigh myself once a day. I'm afraid that the scale will say something different (higher) later in the day than it did when I first weighed in the morning. I also kind of think that if I'm getting on the scale all day then I can't be as surprised by the daily weight loss. Kind of like a watched pot doesn't boil.

I don't weigh myself during my TOM though because I know the scale will be higher because of water rention and I don't want that to discourage me. Also, not weighing myself during my period I get an extra surprise in the weight loss at the end of it.

Addicted to the scale! I can vouch that it does happen, and on some level, I think it is unhealthy, but it all depends. I am kind of an over-achiever, and if I don't see results for a week, it will derail all of my teachings. I am staying away from the scale for a couple weeks now. I will get back on it when I know that I have been doing good. Big numbers will just make me mad, but looking at the scale now...I am curious....