How often do you weigh yourself?

[ohjul 51]

I'm pre op July 13th- but of course trying to read everything I can before. I see threads where people get nervous if they haven't lost from one day to the next- how often do you weigh yourself?

[dhrguru 1,238]

I weigh once weekly.

I never understood the daily weighers, everyone knows weight can fluctuate day to day, yet drive themselves crazy weighing and worrying about those same factors that can make the weight fluctuate.

[imjenn 167]

I'm one of those people who weigh daily. It's a hard habit to break and you like to see results and daily results make you feel GREAT. Only advice I have is to weigh yourself straight away in the morning after you empty your bladder to get the most accurate!

But I would recommend weekly. After my two week appointment I am going to try my best to weigh only weekly! (I had surgery Monday)

[Lakelandgirl 17]

I weigh myself daily but only record my weight every Monday. I get to see the daily fluctuations and can adjust my eating and exercise accordingly. My weight loss is slow but that is perfectly fine with me. I have yet to gain any weight.

[sunshine7 11]

Twice A Week Is Enough

[hellohealthy 32]

Weekly.

[RazorbackSusan 17]

I'm ridiculously obsessed and have been weighing in multiple times a day while on the pre op diet. I'm overly anxious about making sure that I lose weight before surgery day. It's way too much. The people who are weighing in weekly are probably healthier, but I don't think I'm going to be able to resist daily weigh ins.

[Weighting2BeFree 164]

I weigh daily so I can see how calories or certain foods affect my weight. However I do not freak out if it goes up or stalls simply because of Water weight or hormones. I just like to know where I am

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

I weigh daily so I can see how calories or certain foods affect my weight. However I do not freak out if it goes up or stalls simply because of Water weight or hormones. I just like to know where I am

I don't understand this. Our bodies are complex systems, not simple machines.

You can see effects long-term, but not in the short term (daily). There is no way you can draw a direct cause and effect conclusion based on limited inputs and outputs yet I see people do this all the time and it drives them crazy. (ie, I ate a donut last night and I gained a pound this morning so eating a donut is the end of my life OR, I ate a donut last night and lost a pound this morning, therefore it's ok if I eat a donut every night).

My solution, do what I am supposed to do and only weigh at the Doctors office for now.

[ohjul 51]

Thanks everyone -

[Jaghomer 8]

Every morning

[aelovelady 243]

I weigh twice a week on Fridays and Mondays. I think weighing every day would not be good for me mentally, focusing on the numbers too much. I hope to get to once a week as I get closer to my goal weight (21 more lbs)

[jennn0218 13]

I don't weigh myself unless I go to my sisters house where's there's a scale and I'll write down but other than that I don't really think about it and when I least think I lost weight that when I loose the most. My pre op diet I didn't think I lost that much and I lost 21 lbs and I found that out the day of my surgery.

[Weighting2BeFree 164]

I weigh daily so I can see how calories or certain foods affect my weight. However I do not freak out if it goes up or stalls simply because of Water weight or hormones. I just like to know where I am

I don't understand this. Our bodies are complex systems, not simple machines.

You can see effects long-term, but not in the short term (daily). There is no way you can draw a direct cause and effect conclusion based on limited inputs and outputs yet I see people do this all the time and it drives them crazy. (ie, I ate a donut last night and I gained a pound this morning so eating a donut is the end of my life OR, I ate a donut last night and lost a pound this morning, therefore it's ok if I eat a donut every night).

My solution, do what I am supposed to do and only weigh at the Doctors office for now.

I know it doesn't show immediate results or outcomes. However, for me, weighing daily shows me a few things: 1) if my weight drops a ridiculous amount, say more than a pound a day, I go back and look to see if I trained harder or drank less over the preceding days and adjust my liquids. 2) if I go up I also look at possible hormone levels ( where I am in my cycle) or how my diet or exercise was different or how my calories varied in the preceding days. It helps me narrow the window of how far back to research. I can do this because I log everything... liquids, food, and exercise

Edited May 17, 2015 by Weighting2BeFree

[VSGmary 418]

I weigh my self every morning.. I wish i could break this terrible obsession as it plays on my mind all day every day. In all honesty, i guess I'm so afraid to put all this weight back on, that i feel some strange comfort in being able to control it by weighing daily.