how often do you weigh yourself?

I weigh myself whenever I go to the gym on the InBody. I'm on maintenance so I'm mostly looking at fat/muscle trends.
 
Every saturday am after a poop. Usually im down a pound or 2 but yesterday i was up 2lbs.....it happens. Hoping it was water retention from the tesa i started a weekish ago....
 
Every morning, immediately after peeing, before getting dressed (so I know the weight of my clothes aren't causing changes). This helps me to see certain patterns, like that my weight goes up by a few pounds if I ate a lot of carbs the night before, or that it goes down when I took a long, hot bath the day before. Neither of those reflect fat changes, just water retention or loss. I'm in maintenance, so I keep myself within a five pound window, and I know if I go above that I need to change something.
 
fuchufuchu said:
just finished week 5 on reta and the scale stopped dropping so i’m feeling a bit blue. but i’ve lost 4kg total which is still nice, and i can feel myself getting bonier for sure.

definitely haven’t been eating much at all so i’m wondering if it’s just water/poop (lol) weight. should i weigh every other week instead so i don’t become discouraged?
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Congrats...Good start-stick with it 4kg=8.8lbs. Wheeee look at me doin math...
 
randompersonrandom said:
Every day after I have my coffee and before I shower, and I plug it into my app. any time I start to get antsy because of fluctuations or something, I switch both the scale and the app into kg, because I don't understand kg and it keeps me from feeling ways about the number on the scale.
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i do, i do...2.2lbs per kg...sorry to rain on your parade
 
I am an everyday weigher. I take my weight, use that to figure out my calories and macros for the day and put it all in my spreadsheet to track trends etc. Figure out weekly averages, trend lines, etc.

My "official weigh day" is Wednesday and I use that weight to do my "official" weight loss or gain for the week. I did hit a mini plateau for a couple weeks that messed with my head as it put a bump in my graphs downward slope. But it was a good experience in that I had to take my own advice and "trust the process" and "keep grinding"

I'm also planning on doing dexa scan semi-regularly to use that data for trend tracking also
 
I weigh daily because if I weighed the same from week to week then I would get discouraged. I know that it's going to go up and down and I expect that. I have been doing Tirz since October 11th and I am down 18#. Not crazy numbers but I was gradually going UP before I started and that had to stop.
 
Every morning to see where I am at and make a mental note. Gains are okay. Losses are okay. Right now I'm trying for consistancy. I also weight myself again Friday after work before injecting for my actual weekly tracking. Whatever the number is Friday evening that's what I put down. Higher or lower than the weekly average.

That's just how I go about it. I also periodically weigh myself before bed. Try not to get wrapped up in the numbers.
 
Since I've been on maintenance therapy, I don't weigh myself at all anymore. I don't want the pressure of stepping on the scale every day.

I would notice if my jeans or T-shirts became too tight. As long as that doesn't happen and I don't have to adjust my clothing size, everything is fine as far as I'm concerned.
 
Most every morning right after showering. Numbers are not always down but it make day to day progress more possible. Weekly weigh in is shot day that gets logged in the tracking app.
 
Initially daily but started playing mind games with me as one day would be down and the next slightly up. So finally decided on weekly which made me feel better as I could see the average weight loss in a week. 20lb more to go. As you can see stalled oover past 6 weeks but no gain during the holidays.

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I do once a week because it will consume me any other way, then I make the adjustments on chronometer. I use the same strategy for my calories in, in a way. I have a number of calories I can eat for the whole week, but the daily amount is constantly fluctuating.
 
Lost 28kg total and now maintaining for 7 months. During weight loss phase I stept on the scale once a week and kind of made a habit of it. Did it the 2nd day after injection and I suspect that’s my lightest day of the week because mounjaro tends to get rid of some waterweight. There were a couple of days I weighed myself later in the week and I noticed a slight gain in weight. It still messes a bit in my head to see a very slight gain. Which is not very rational but at the same time Im not sure if I want to step on the scale daily. Likely the result of a lifetime struggle with weight and self esteem. I think with time I will get more confident and the trust will grow that I can really trust the medicine and my routines. ‘Funny’ long term adjustment..
 
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Every morning when I wake.
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Prior to maintenance, weekly. Since maintenance, monthly. I'll jump on the scale, if I know I ate more than usually, during a specific duration ie: Christmas holiday season.
 
Every morning, but I want to stress that weighing daily HELPS with encouragement, even/especially when the scale rises.

If you're weighing/tracking your food, it's easy to get your (approximate) daily calorie expenditure with basic math.

Once you have that daily burn rate, I absolutely love those days where I eat (say) 1000 calories under my daily expenditure but still wake up with the scale +1.5 lbs. That's because I know for a fact that I lost roughly (1000/3500) = 0.28 lbs of fat yesterday.

It's not a question of "oh man, why didn't I lose fat," it's a certainty that yes I lost fat.

Sure, that morning my combined stomach contents and water retention are offsetting that by about 1.78 lbs in the opposite direction, but I couldn't care less ... I LOST FAT, yay! If anything I see it as a positive because I'll get the fun benefit of seeing the scale drop by that 1.78 lbs very soon, and hey, it's kind of fun to lose two lbs of total weight in a single day.
 
I weigh daily as well. Helps keep me honest and when i went a week between weigh ins and the scale didnt move it was an issue. With daily I can see progress alot easier.
 
ghreid said:
Initially daily but started playing mind games with me as one day would be down and the next slightly up. So finally decided on weekly which made me feel better as I could see the average weight loss in a week. 20lb more to go. As you can see stalled oover past 6 weeks but no gain during the holidays.

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Way to go. Most nearly a hundred lbs. Sweet.
 
ghreid said:
Initially daily but started playing mind games with me as one day would be down and the next slightly up. So finally decided on weekly which made me feel better as I could see the average weight loss in a week. 20lb more to go. As you can see stalled oover past 6 weeks but no gain during the holidays.

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No gain over the holidays counts as weight lost in my book 😜
 
Every morning, because I like my graphs having as many data points as possible. Doing it every day also taught me about how the body "works" while losing weight - before each significant drop there was a stall, it almost seems like the body is processing something and preparing to shed the pounds.
 
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