I'm thinking of trying an experiment and only WI once a month. I'd still exercise, still follow the plan, but only step on the scale at, say, the end of the month. It's just, my focus has changed slightly in the past few months where it's not so much about being *skinny* but about being *healthy* and these days I only step on the scale every Monday morning because, well, that's my weigh in day and I'm supposed to. The number has become less important than the NSVs.
Someone would have to come in and take my scales away from me....lol. I could not go for more then a week. I don't even make it the entire week most of the time....lol. Good luck
Yes. It never works for me. I'd allow myself little indulgences in between weigh-ins, thinking in the back of my mind, well, I'm not going to weigh in for another two weeks so I'll have time to eat better. Then I didn't and the scale showed it.
With that said, you never know until you try whether or not something is going to work for you
For me the scale kinda holds me accountable and keeps me in check, so when I have slight gains and losses during the week I know that is normal. With that being said I am not sure I could go only once a month but you have such a strong handle on your eating and exercising it would be cool to see if you can do it. I will cheer you on the entire month!
You have a great mindset about where you are,have a handle on what you're eating, exercising and know that if you continue,the scale will eventually show all your hard work so go for it.
I use to like Weighing In everyday but at this stage in my journey I've gotten to the point where i like to WI once a week(most times,don't think i could go a whole month without though),especially when eating on plan and exercising are on point.Helps not having to deal w/daily fluctuation stress Good Luck.
Yes. It never works for me. I'd allow myself little indulgences in between weigh-ins, thinking in the back of my mind, well, I'm not going to weigh in for another two weeks so I'll have time to eat better. Then I didn't and the scale showed it.
And that is a slippery slope I might potentially fall into, so I would definitely have to be careful about that. Thanks for pointing that out!
You have a great mindset about where you are,have a handle on what you're eating, exercising and know that if you continue,the scale will eventually show all your hard work so go for it.
I use to like Weighing In everyday but at this stage in my journey I've gotten to the point where i like to WI once a week(most times,don't think i could go a whole month without though),especially when eating on plan and exercising are on point.Helps not having to deal w/daily fluctuation stress Good Luck.
I could never WI every day, because the daily fluctuation would frustrate me. But now that I know those fluctuations are normal, I don't stress out about them on the rare times when I do weigh in mid week to kind of "check" where I am.
A month does seem like a long time and probably more than I could do. Maybe I'll try every other week? Then again, while I *say* I could handle not weighing in that often and the number isn't as important, fact is that the scale does keep me accountable.
I know for myself, I couldn't do it. I am struggling with Maintenance and only weighing in once a month. This past month was horrible!! I ended up pigging out for 3 weeks, and about killed myself this past week to get rid of my indiscretions!! I have decided I am going to try weighing in every other week, and if that still doesn't work, then I am back to every week.
I could never WI every day, because the daily fluctuation would frustrate me.
I find that the daily fluctuations don't frustrate me when I know I've been on plan. I can then view the fluctuations more dispassionately, as a scientist might: "Hmm, it's interesting that the scale shows a 1.2 pound gain even though I didn't overeat or have excess sodium yesterday. I wonder what it could be..."
By the way, a poster called lin43 lost over 40 pounds last year without weighing herself a single time. So it's definitely possible. She wanted to focus on health rather than numbers, and it sounds like you have the same mindset.
Yes, I limited myself to once a month weigh ins when I was losing and in the beginning stayed off almost 3 months. I did track my calories in and out to make sure I was staying on plan, but scale has never been my friend in the mental game of weight loss. If I did better than expected, it was "Yay, I can have some treats", if worse than expected, it was "I may as well eat what I want". Either way I ended up eating more after weigh ins.
I always believed the common wisdom that weighing daily was bad and inherently frustrating until I read a recent review of the research which found that the most effective weight loss groups (across multiple weight loss studies) was that the most frequent weighers lost the most weight.
It made me question the belief that daily weighing was "bad" for motivation. And I realized I could only be frustrated if I chose to be. Frustration is a result of reality not meeting expectations, so if I met or exceeded my expectations, I couldn't be frustrated. I didn't have to avoid the scale to avoid the frustration, I just needed to acquire more realistic expectations.
To do that, I had to learn a lot about my body and the scale so I started weighing myself dozens of times a day. Before and after dressing, eating, drinking, going to the bathroom... I learned how long it takes heavy low-calorie foods to completely digest. I learned that high-carb eating and injury, illness, and muscle repair after exercise all can cause temporary weight gain from water retention.... I learned to use the scale and not let the scale control my emotions.
and I wrote everything I learned down in my journal so that I began to see the patterns and as I knew what to expect on the scale (and all along reminding myself that I am not a number and the number is not important. It's only value is in allowing me to see progress that's otherwise difficult to measure).
By changing my goal to "not gaining and while I'm at this not gaining, I might as well be trying to lose just one more pound," I was able to make most weigh-ins a rewarding experience.
We're taught to step on the scale hoping to see a loss. Even if we get right back on the scale ten minutes later, we still have that voice in the back of our mind ready to admonish us if the scale isn't somehow magically moving downward ten minutes later.
However making the biggest goal "not gaining" means that if I weigh myself 100 times a day, most of those times I will get to "celebrate" not gaining.
Now I don't weigh myself 100 times a day, but if I overeat or eat something off plan, I get on the scale immediately, but instead of falling into the trap of the traditional ritual of deciding that a gain means I should give up and binge - I look at the number as a positive message. If I eat a two ounce candy bar, I cannot gain more than two ounces of fat from that candy bar. Getting on the scale and seeing the .1 weight gain reminds me that my weight can only go down from there (unless I continue to binge out of control).
In the past, I would let a 2 ounce candybar, become a five pound gain because instead of getting on the scale and seeing that the situation wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was, I could get right back on track faster.
The weigh-in provides the "do over" or "start fresh" or "just moving on" point for me, whereas in the past eating off plan would result in me eating off plan until the next weigh-in. I've short-circuited that by making the next weigh-in immediate. If I eat off plan ten times in a day, I get on the scale ten times.
I no longer hate or fear the scale, but knowing that I'm going to weigh myself after eating an unplanned snack, does help me decide not to eat another. For example if I eat that off-plan candybar and get on the scale and see that .1 gain, I'm not going to go and eat a second candybar knowing that I'm going to get on the scale and see a .2 lb gain.
Weighing after every unplanned snack helps me stay on plan, or at least get right back on plan immediately because I don't want to see the cumulative effects of letting a small mistake become a big one.
What's worked for me, may not work for you, and you may find monthly weighing may work best. The important thing is to experiment and find what works for you.
only WI once a month?
Good Luck. 
