how often do you wiegh yourself

i've been told you shouldn't weigh yourself too often because you'll get disappointed in not seeing the weight loss and lose the motivation. i understand that muscle is heavier and that i've already lost a lot of fat, but also gained muscle, but how often should you weigh yourself?

I weigh myself every morning. Just once a day. I've read in several articles that if you weigh yourself everyday it will keep the weight from creeping back up on you.  For me, if my weight is the same it motivates me to exercise more and eat better.  If my weight has gone down even by .2 it still is some movement and it keeps me going.  When I lost weight in 2006, I weighed myself once a week which does seem to be a bigger payoff.  It really depends on whatever you want to do. 

When I'm losing weight, once a week.

When I'm maintaining, everyday.

When I'm out of control, never.

 

Everyday .............. BUT wouldn't reccomend as u can get easily obsessed - as I am. Old habits die hard.

I weight myself every morning. More so just to see what it is. I'm more concerned about inches right now, and I only measure myself once a month.

Every single day. I really wish I didn't. I know that doing it once a week will make me feel better, but I'm afraid that I'll be gaining weight and not know about it until a week later! I actually weigh myself a few times a day, and when I don't like what it's saying, I'll stand in one place for about a minute, then try again. It usually makes it go down a little, haha

Ooooh, I need to stop

I weigh myself twice a day. In the morning, and at night. It's amazing how much of a difference there is between morning and night.

Once the numbers stop moving, I'll hopefully be able to hold back and only weigh myself once a week. It's definitely depressing when you don't see any movement on the scales.

No more than once a week. 

My father, a physician and surgeon, explained it to me years ago.  Your body weight naturally fluctuates throughout the day and even day to day.  The minimum amount of time between weigh-ins should be at least a week, preferably the same day of the week, same time of day.  The best time is first thing in the morning after you eliminate and before you eat. 

Anything less than a week is erroneous information that is just going to either upset or excite you unnecessarily.

I used to weigh myself every morning, right after I went to the bathroom, because that is the best time to weigh yourself (or so I was told by many a fitness/health magazine).   I have also read (in my most recent Women's Health magazine) that people who weigh themselves everyday have a better chance of keeping their weight from creeping upwards because they can see the weight gain happening and make small daily changes to keep on track. 

However, as doctors have explained, weight fluctuates and who's to say I won't be down 2 pounds tomorrow from the weight I am today?  So what's the point in weighing yourself everyday if it's going to fluctuate up and down?  And since muscle weighs more than fat, if you've just started working out, the scale might not budge, but you will still be losing inches, so why let the scale measure your progress at all??

I don't think I can ever give up weighing myself because I do consider weight to be an important measurement when trying to be healthy, but I have stopped doing it daily.  I think it makes more sense to do it weekly.  I know what my "normal weight range" is and if I start creeping past that range, I know when I need to take corrective action. 

I've gotten into a habit of doing it a few times a day. Usually once in the morning (which is pretty much your lowest weight during the day) and then maybe 1 or 2 other times. It's more amuzing just how much weight you can gain from eating a meal. Or how I didn't loose any weight for about a week because I was retaining water before my TOM. But once it ended, I dropped about 3 pds right away. I enter in my weight into the tracker only about once a week.

If I weighed myself daily I would be a total head case. Once a week- usually Monday morning as soon as I get to work and can use my medical scale there. I don't even own a scale for home which is a scary thing if I'm off from work for any length of time. But I can always weigh in at the gym too.

once every 3-5 days and i NEVER weigh myself the few days before and during my period because i know it's never accurate and will always be at least 5 lbs more than what it is normally.

Original Post by sonini:

I weigh myself twice a day. In the morning, and at night. It's amazing how much of a difference there is between morning and night.

Once the numbers stop moving, I'll hopefully be able to hold back and only weigh myself once a week. It's definitely depressing when you don't see any movement on the scales.

 

that movement is the wieght of the foods you've eaten during the day that haven't been digested.  it takes about 24 hours to digest food.  you're never going to stop seeing your weight fluctuate.  it can fluctuate anwhere from one to five pounds.

I am way to obsessive with weighing!  I weigh first thing in the morning and usually the last thing at night (in which I subtract 2 pounds for water weight).  I use to weigh just once a day but in the morning.  I had read that people who weigh themselves are 33% more likely to keep the weight off than those who don't... so I think I took this heart.

hey adc I am just the same, I normally end up weighing myself 2-3 times a day just to know that i am not gaining too much from one meal to another. Its becoming an obsession with me.. i wish i could stop this doing this.

I weigh myself daily, but only count what I get Friday mornings.