How often do you weigh yourself when dieting?

[Anonymous]

I am trying to lose 10 pounds and I weigh myself first thing in the morning and before bed, every day. My mood sours when I creep up a pound and soars when I lose a pound, sometimes on the same day. This is bad for my mental health. How often should I weigh in?

[Anonymous]

Don't do that. Check in once a week. That's it.

[Anonymous]

I find daily weigh ins helpful but only if you are open to the concept that weight varies. Weigh in the morning, same time, before you eat. And then focus on the week average.

If you know this will drive you nuts, then go to weekly, just realize you may be hitting a low or high time.

[Anonymous]

Daily.

[Anonymous]

Every few weeks, and only if I'm reasonably sure the scale moved in the right direction.

[Anonymous]

Definitely no more than daily.

I’m not dieting and still weight myself at least weekly. Everyone should. It is so much easier to prevent weight gain than it is to try and lose 10+ accumulated pounds.

Dieting I would weigh every other day, first thing in the morning. Adjust intake and exercise accordingly

[Anonymous]

Daily. After I poop.

[Anonymous]

Daily is best if you record and track the trend. As you have seen, weight fluctuates all the time. Most of this fluctuation is water retention and the trend over time is what really matters.

You can do weekly, but might get even more frustrated because if that once a week weighs falls on a day when you ar retaining more water you will thing nothing you are doing works. Where if you weight daily and track the trend, I like the happy scale app, you can see that while there are fluctuations the overall trend is still going down.

[Anonymous]

I think it's important to weigh yourself daily to see how hydration and different foods affect you, once you see a trend you can drop down to a few times a week.

[Anonymous]

Every morning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find daily weigh ins helpful but only if you are open to the concept that weight varies. Weigh in the morning, same time, before you eat. And then focus on the week average.

If you know this will drive you nuts, then go to weekly, just realize you may be hitting a low or high time.

This. Instead of scale, focus on being active, getting 10k steps, weighing portions, etc. Also, use a tape measure, tight clothes and photos to gauge progress. Also, know your cycle will particularly impact water weight fluctuations.

I personally find keeping carbs low (below 20g total, not net) has been really helpful for weight loss, since the body runs on either glucose or fat (like a hybrid car), triggering the metabolic shift to fat as fuel (by dropping carbs) and keeping fat in diet controlled, stored body fat is targeted. In maintenance I eat more carbs and more fat but when cutting, being in fat burning state and being more active has been really effective. Intermittent fasting is also great for fat loss, check out the work of Dr. Jason Fung or the podcast his team does, The Fasting Method.

OP, think of these as lifestyle changes.
Good luck, OP!

[Anonymous]

Once a day, only in the morning and only on the days when I get up around the normal time (i.e. not waking up at 3am to catch a flight and not sleeping in until 9am the next day). Never at night, all you're doing when you're weighing yourself at night is measuring the weight of the water and food you've consumed that day, and making you feel bad about yourself in the process.

[Anonymous]

Every morning

[Anonymous]

I do every morning, but I've never dieted. I just keep do it to keep myself honest.

[Anonymous]

Every morning after a pee/poop. Remember that weight loss isn't linear. You'll have up and downs.