Anyone else weighing themselves daily?

[Weightloss1234]

Does anyone else here weigh themselves first thing every morning? I have been doing this since June and I find it has just become a habit now. But it’s interesting how much weight fluctuates throughout the week. My highest weight this week was 51.6kg and my lowest was 50.9kg.This morning I am 51.3kg.

No one else?

Yes I do because those weight fluctuations can occur on our weigh days and be deeply discouraging. I weigh every morning and look at my progress on my Renpho app.

Yeah I do. And yes the fluctuations are interesting. I find it works well for me.

I do and record on the Happy Scale app to show trends, etc. I find it is much more accurate than weekly weighing as you’ve no way of knowing if your chosen ‘weigh day’ just happens to be the highest or lowest day of your week.

Yes, I do, and it’s a weekly cycle of weight loss (hooray)then gain (boo).

Yes. I know the theory that once a week makes more sense and the day to day fluctuations are meaningless, but when I eat right my weight does drop overnight and when I don't it does increase, so it keeps me on track.

I definitely find weigh myself daily helped me to understand how different foods can affect my weight. I think it makes less of an issue of it to be honest. Like those people said if I had chosen the day that I was 51.6 to be my day on the previous week I had been 50.9. I would see myself as gaining. And I wouldn’t have a full understanding behind it.

I find seeing the day to day fluctuations are very enlightening.

I only drink wine and east snacks at the weekends, and hey presto, my weight goes up a couple of pounds at weekends. Likewise for takeaways or meals out. This pattern wouldn't be evident at all with weekly weighing.

Besides, any random fluctuations are shown to be random and and short-term if you are weighing daily. If you are only weighing weekly then the fluctuations could occur on your weekly weigh-in day, making you think you'd lost or gained when really you hadn't.

No.

What does it really matter if your clothes still fit?

A few times a week, yep.

@Calliopespa this is in the weightloss chat group…so it matters to a lot of us.

Ah sorry, it just came up on my general feed. I thought it seemed rather hyper-focused!

I do. I like to see the fluctuations. I'm at Slimming World and WI on an evening, so it's really influenced by what I eat and drink that day. So by looking at the WI in the morning I'm less likely to be annoyed by the scales at group in the evening as I can see (usually) the general trend is down.

I do. I am trying to lose weight (I have a thread on here, keeping my weightless accountable) and it definitely helps me stay on track. The general trend is useful as it helps me see if i need to change things. Currently looking at what I might need to change!

I do. It’s interesting. I’m currently up. It can only be because of DOMs or the electrolytes I’m drinking to help!

I do, I went on mounjaro, lost over 6 stone and I fully realised not weighing in part helped me mentally avoid the weight gaining, I’m now bmi 20, dress size 8; been maintaning about 20 months and weigh myself every morning, I think it’s important for me personally to keep an eye on it.

Yes I do. Whenever I've fallen off the wagon in the past I've stopped daily weighing as it's too confronting. Having lost weight on mounjaro I absolutely cannot afford financially or psychologically to regain so I'm daily weighing forever. It means I've been able to correct myself when I've gained a couple of pounds instead of letting it spiral.

I do and it’s how I’ve managed to keep my weight stable for years now. I used to find it very triggering but have come to accept it’s just data. Very interestingly research also suggests it’s a positive tool for maintains weight loss over time.

I don't weigh myself daily because I get disproportionately anxious with perfectly normal fluctuations. With a once-a-week weigh, the fluctuations are superimposed on a generally downwards trend and there are some weeks where the downwards slope is steeper than others but that doesn't matter. I think I would move to weighing every 2 or 3 days once I am trying to maintain a steady weight, as then I could have an action trigger of 2 increases in a row meaning that there's a real issue

There’s not much point. Humans can differ by up to 2kg day to day due to fluids, stool, swelling, time in cycle.

I find it that’s probably why I feel there’s more of a point because it’s more realistic and it gives you insight into the fluctuations of the human body. Instead of weighing yourself once a week and being hard on yourself for looking like you’ve gained but in reality you haven’t. I like to use mine so that I can see my average.

I don't because, without going into TMI I like to weigh myself after I've been to the toilet and at the moment that isn't daily! But, if it was then yes I would definitely weigh myself each morning.

I do, but then the data goes automatically through to a website called trendweight.com, which does a moving average. Basically it evens out the day to day fluctuations and reveals the underlying trend.

Here’s an example of the chart, the round dots are actual scale readings, and the line is the moving average.

Sorry, didn’t upload, here’s the image.

A bit geeky, but I have an excel sheet on the phone with 7 day running average and some other comparisons.