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How Often Should I Weight Myself?

I had my VSG Tuesday 6/19. I have developed a habit of weighing myself daily. Is this good practice or should I discipline myself to space my weight-in out?

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Weighing urself daily has is pro's and con's. When you weigh yourself daily you have type of measuring stick on how well you are doing. The other side is "stalls" when you hit one the scale can be come very upseting. So weigh urself everyday until you stay at the same number for 3days straight then go to once a week until you start losing again...

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Thank you! Today is day two at the same weight. So I will follow your suggestion. Best Wishes!

I have been in a stall for 2 weeks and I weighed daily. It has been a bit discouraging until this morning when I was down 5 lbs overnight. I have been swimming or walking and I used map my walk which stated that I burned almost 500 calories in an hour and ten minutes last night. I think the idea of not weighing every day if your weight hasn't changed in a few days is a good one. In practice for me that is very difficult.

I weigh every day, but I don't let the scale drive me nuts. I know that my weight is going to fluctuate daily and I use it more as a marker to know whether what I'm doing is working than anything else. I love those 5 pound overnight drops, but have to remind myself that it's probably just water weight.

I worked hard through my pre-approval phase on my diet and lost 70 pounds in 7 months. However, there were days that I gained 2 or 3 pounds and then the next day lost them, and I just dealt with it. It's how you look at it. Stalls and sometimes Water retention happens.

Weighing yourself daily has it's ups and downs, so does weighing yourself weekly. What if the day you decide to weigh yourself is the day that you had an issue with water retention.

Stalls happen, that's when you take out the tape measurer, and you use your own intuition, is your clothes fitting looser? It's when I don't weigh myself daily that the next day becomes easier not to weigh myself then the next week, then 60 pounds later you are like what the heck happened to me.

If you can't deal with a stall or a one pound increase, then don't weigh yourself once a day. It happens to everyone though and it's really on how well you can deal with the reality that you can weigh yourself 5 times a day and sometimes your weight can fluctuate 1-3 pounds depending on the time of the day.

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