How Often Do You Weigh Yourself?

For me, it’s not very often, maybe every couple of months, definitely before I go for my annual physical. If my appetite has changed radically, I’ll check in every couple of days.

I always wear clothes and my heavy house slippers. I don’t want to think I’m too light, which definitely wouldn’t be a fact.
 
Twice a day. First thing in the morning, then later after my hike. Clothes off. <Blush> Each day, I record my lower weight, plus my calorie intake the day before. I enter this on a Microsoft Works spreadsheet, which renders both weight and calories on one over lapping chart. I will have been doing this (every day) for the past year 4 weeks from now. It's part of a weight loss and fitness program, well just me and my own program. I've lost 46 pounds so far. I have to lose another 13 pounds to get to my ideal weight of 165 as calculated from some formula I got from the internet.

I know you didn't ask for that much information, but I wanted to add that it has been a great decision. I feel so much better physically and mentally, mostly physically, which was my goal. The mental part was just a happy bonus, but I can do things that I thought I had gotten too old to do. I also have a weight lifting routine 3 times a week, just to gain some added strength for the things I like to do. Mostly this would be hiking, but it pays off in other ways you don't think about, like getting up off the floor without looking my age.
 
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Just before my 6 month doctor visit. My weight doesn't vary a lot, maybe 1 or 2 lbs. either way. I attribute that to good eating habit & regular exercise. I'd go to my doctor once a year but he wants a 6 month visit. I suspect it's to boost his income but since he does a good job of monitoring my health I'm happy to oblige.
 
I have been a part of a community on FItbit ..... the suggestions on weighing ones self vary ..... many folks on a various weight loss plans and some who have managed incredible weight loss successfully ...... some on maintenance programs.

some say everyday same time of day / no clothes etc.....works for them

others say once a week ... as fluctuations may discourage some people out on a weight loss plan .....if number plateaus or rises

I was given a scale that says it measures............ BMI/ muscle mass/ fat % and bone density etc ....
Those calculations are all over the charts on this one scale ............. so i doubt there is much accuracy in it ........

i weigh myself every few days try to monitor it but not obsess about it .....
 
I've been weighing myself first thing Saturday morning for decades. My cats too, anyone in the home. I went around yelling "Weigh In Day Everybody must get Weighed!" When my mother was visiting she had to get weighed too. Rules of "my home" :LOL:

A few years ago I added Wednesdays, but occasionally don't want to. On rare occasions I might skip a Saturday. I weigh myself first thing, wearing pj's. I don't weigh cats anymore.
 
Jackie23 said:
How often do you weigh yourself? Every morning

Do you have a set time? No Clothes on? Sometimes

Any logic for what you do? I'm on Keto diet, and I've lost 28 pounds!! :love::love::love:
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How long has it been since you changed to the Keto Lifestyle? I changed about 2 1/2 years ago. I don’t weigh myself. When I go to the Dr., once a year is when I know my weight. Last time I had lost 55lbs however that is not my gauge as to how good I’m am doing. It is how I feel and move. I walk almost every day and at the gym 3 times a week for upper body work out, which is something I could not do prior to changing to the K-lifestyle. Wish I had know about it years ago.
 
I get up at sunup and either weigh the first thing in the morning before exercising,
or else have a bowl of oats first, do my exercise, then weigh with no clothes on before showering.
The result is entered on a daily spreadsheet, with the median weight in a column at the end of the week.
The reason is to see that I'm eating the right amount of calories to do my exercise and to not weigh too much.
 
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