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.

Never. I used to do it daily, it wasn't good for my mind. My weight is what it is and I don't want to go back to fixating on it. I'm more muscular than I was when I was obsessed with being light so I'm bound to weigh more.

@ZupZapZop I'm happy to see normal fluctuations.. too old for period water retention now, but it was certainly a factor in years gone by.

I just need to see the overall picture in order to keep a handle on things.

Daily

Never. Don't own scales. Never have.
Didn't stop DD developing an ED tho. Hey ho. Best laid plans and all that...

Every single day. Sometimes twice.

I have no intention of weighing myself ever again. Not because I'm in any danger of getting obsessive about it - I'm absolutely not. I just can't be arsed and I don't think it ever helped me with weight loss when I did weigh myself in the past tbh.

I don't need a target weight or to measure anything. I have accepted, after decades of mucking about with different diets, that I will never be a size 10. I will continue to bob around between the slimmer end of a 14 and the slimmer end of a 16 and just eat a bit less when my clothes feel a bit tighter.

When I was dieting I weighed daily.
Since reaching target I weigh once, maybe twice, per week to keep myself on track.

Never owned them so only at hotels.

Daily. It shows me that it does fluctuate quite alot.

Never. We don’t have scales. I think the last time was probably when I was pregnant with youngest dc 8 years ago.

Every day at the moment. As soon as I stop, I gain. I need to hold myself accountable.

Two or three times a month, and I record the number and make a note of any unusual circumstances. I'm at an age where I can't take good health for granted, so I want to have evidence of any involuntary changes in my weight in either direction.

Rarely. I never want to be obsessed. I take my measurements sometimes to track fat around my abdomen though

Never. I had a serious eating disorder as a young woman (I'm now 63) and I used to weigh myself many times a day and became obsessed with needing to lose weight every day . I was severely under weight and very unwell
I consider it now as an alcoholic might consider having a drink - I will never do it or I could end up on that route again. If I have to be weighed at the doctors, I look away from the reading and ask them not to tell me what I weigh.

the other week, then every few months, im currently at 15 stone 3/4

Not often now. My mum was hyper-critical of my size as a teenager. I have never let my daughter weigh herself. My scales are well-hidden where she can't find them. I don't want her to get obsessed like I was at her age. If my clothes are tight, I weigh myself then I make an effort to lose weight.

I weighed myself daily, sometimes multiple times a day, until I started HRT last summer. I gained a stone in about a fortnight and it made me really mentally unwell knowing my eating habits hadn’t changed, so I got rid of the scales. I do measure my waist/thighs/hips every month or so still though.

Ive had weight loss surgery so am still in the losing stages. I weigh myself every 4-6 weeks, you get a lot of stalling and no loss and people can get obsessed so I put the scales away

However once I get to my target weight or when it looks like I wont lose anymore, I will daily weigh as it gives a good indication over time of whether there is any movement in one direction or the other, you can get apps which predict based on your fluctations what it will be next week and next month for example.

I will need that to ensure I dont get complacent and the weight piles back on again.

almost never. I know what I weigh from
being weighed at the doctors.

Had an ED in past so... almost never.

Every week or so, but sometimes I forget for a while. I’m not obsessed with the scales or anything but I WFH and could snack all day if I wanted to (and did in fact go through a phase of doing this) and I need to keep track.

Every day. It's the only way I can manage my weight.

I don’t. If my clothes fit then all is good.

A couple of times a week. I have lost about 2 and a half stone since April, initially following slimming world.

I stopped going in August and I am not as strict on myself and have upped the exercise since then.
The scales are still being kind to me 😀

Daily. Always have done. I am fairly short, which means 4lb is an extra inch around the vitals. Half a stone takes me up an entire dress size.