How often do you weigh yourself?

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I should do it once a week with being on a weight loss programme but I have not done it since maybe summer and have found it scary and liberating at the same time in terms of not getting ‘obsessed’ by the number on scales.

I don’t anymore. I go by how my clothes feel.

Very rarely - maybe once every 2/3 months. For a long time I weighed myself daily. Sometimes more than once a day! So it’s nice not to be in that place anymore ☺️

Weighing myself daily is the only way to keep my weight under control. If I don't weigh I put weight on. I need to see the damage I'm doing to myself.

Never, we threw the scales out a couple of years ago.

Daily because I've got a fat loss goal and seeing as weight fluctuate daily it helps me work out my weekly average and if im loosing body fat.

Every day, I'm on a weight loss plan and like to track progress.

Every morning. Like the pp it means I know exactly where I’m at (trying to lose at the moments).

I know it fluctuates and I can see that more clearly - I have Aria scales which give you a graph, weekly average, previous months and so on, which is much more accurate a view than a one-off weight which could be a light day or a heavy day!

Never. I can see i need to lose a few pounds every time I look in the mirror.

I don’t have scales, so I only weigh myself if I see scales at a friend’s house or in hotel.

Maybe once a year. Like if I was using a friend's bathroom and saw weighing scales in the corner I'd jump on for a look but it's just on a whim and I can never really remember what my last weight was anyway.

Every time I use the bathroom.

Daily because otherwise I just get fatter. I need to know the numbers to guide my tendency to overeat.
I wish I didn’t

Once a week as I am losing weight at the moment.

About twice a week

its a data point. It’s a number. It’s nothing BAD.

I now acknowledge fluctuations as part and parcel of existing- I used to be obese and scared of scales, and any minor increase would set me off

i think of it like checking blood pressure, it’s good to keep an eye on things

Me too.

i have a fair few issues around my weight though.

My clothes are my scales - they either fit of they don't.

Daily. Following Noom.

Never now
if it’s ‘good news’ I either get a buzz and try to take it too far or think I’ve ‘got away with it’ and have less control over my eating.
if it’s ‘bad news’ I berate myself and get into a negative spiral.
but I’ve got a history of yo-yo dieting and binge eating so might not be the same for everyone.

feels good not doing it though and focusing on how I feel more than what the scales say.

I weigh myself when I think I mightve put a few pounds on and then aim to get down to what weight I want to be again.

In winter I am happy to be half a stone heavier than in summer.

Daily.
I only think about the number for 3 mins or so before and after I weigh myself and can brush off any fluctuations quite easily.

Once a month, the day after my period has finished and first thing in the morning. It’s the only way I can keep a consistent track

Most mornings assuming I've not eaten breakfast. I've tried judging by how my clothes feel but they lie and tell me they are loose when I've gained.

But how your clothes fit is a better indicator of your body fat percentage, which is what we should be interested from a health (and aesthetic) point of view, than weight which has many unrelated and unhelpful variables.

The usual 'weigh yourself once a week' advice only gives a very general guide to whether or not you've lost fat in the preceding week as the variation due to body composition, hydration level and what's going on in your digestive system will often cause a bigger change in weight.

Daily. Currently loosing weight. But will even after I have finished loosing weight. Done this too many times and will
never now not stand on them. It’s too hard to keep trying to loose weight and I don’t want to have to do it again. So if I can keep track of my weight better and have accountability to what I eat then so be it.

Used to be every few months. However, I lost weight last year and it'd be easy to slip into old ways, so weighing myself about four times a week helps keep things in check, ie I try and make healthier or better choices which has to be a good thing.