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How often do/should you weigh yourself?

Hi All,

I'm curious how often you do or have been told you should weigh? When I was doing weight loss in the past (WW or JC) they would tell me to only weigh in weekly. Then when I tried noom recently they told me to weigh daily. I'll ask my surgeon and the psychologist when I get to that point in the process but I'm curious what others have been told or do?

Thanks,
Lori

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I’m a daily weigher.

Every morning after I shower or am dressed I weigh myself and mark it on a calendar. I also started to keep a simple daily note on my tablet that says the day, my weight, and what I eat. (Including calories and protein total for the day)

I weigh my self every morning. Capture it in my phone for nice graphs.

I weigh daily but only record weekly. The thing is if you are a daily weigher not to obsess over minor fluctuations as they are normal , but it does help to see which way your weight is trending.

I weigh daily. But, if I hit a stall I put away the scale for a week or two until I work past the stall. I don’t like my daily mood being controlled by my weight.

I weigh daily in the morning. I tend to weigh myself before I go to bed at night so I have an idea if I will lose or not in the morning. I weigh daily to keep track of how I am progressing and if I stall I try to tweak something, whether it be upping my calories a little, making sure I get enough water, trying to be more physically active, etc, to get the numbers moving again.

I think it really depends on how the scale and seeing your weight affects your mental state of mind. Some people do well with doing it daily while it can really stress others out. Find what you're comfortable with and go with that. I don't think there is a right or wrong answer.

I really struggle with a happy medium. My trainer says weigh weekly at most. I am obsessive and weigh daily, but then it SUPER bums me out when the scale didn't move that day or went up, even a few ounces. So, I weigh about every 3 days or so. Many people here weigh daily to keep them on track, but if it starts irritating you if you don't see a move or you get upset with normal fluctuations, cut back to every few days.

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thanks all. Right now I'm weighing daily and I've noticed the days i don't want to it's because i know i had a bad day before (Ironically the days I should be weighing myself). I will need to really watch myself to see if it negatively impacts my mindset an if it does I may cut down to 2 x per week.

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