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I weigh in every morningI wake up. Only once a day.

Banded Feb 26, 2009

Dr Cywes

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I weigh myself every morning.

My scale tells me weight and body fat percentage, so I record them every morning. I enter the numbers into a little computer program that my husband wrote. It takes the two numbers and basically uses them as data points to determine the trend of weight loss. So even if my weight goes up for a day or two, it usually still shows an overall loss. I find it to be very encouraging on those days, and since I can just view my weight as a "data point" it takes some of the emotion out of it, for me at least. :thumbup:

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That sounds very interesting!! What type of program?

I weigh myself every morning.

My scale tells me weight and body fat percentage, so I record them every morning. I enter the numbers into a little computer program that my husband wrote. It takes the two numbers and basically uses them as data points to determine the trend of weight loss. So even if my weight goes up for a day or two, it usually still shows an overall loss. I find it to be very encouraging on those days, and since I can just view my weight as a "data point" it takes some of the emotion out of it, for me at least. :thumbup:

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I weigh myself daily...it makes me more aware of what Im putting in...it drives my husband nuts...lol

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I used to weigh myself everyday just like everyone else, but I was on bandster hell for almost three wks and it wasn't fun climbing the scale every morning after 2 hrs workout at the gym the night before and nothing.

So I put my scale in the trunk of my car for 2 wks now, so I can concentrate on actually doing the work instead of obsessing about every loss and gain. I haven't weighed myself for two wks now and will know my current weight when I go to get my second fill on Tuesday. My plan is to weigh once a month only at my doctor's office. I know I have lost weight because I 've gone down two dress sizes ( from size 18 to 14) in two months.

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I weight myself DAILY when i wake up and i am pissed when i see the numbers go up and then the next day they go down :thumbup:

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That sounds very interesting!! What type of program?

Right now, it's just in Excel, but he's working on making it into a web application (using Python)

It really does help on those mornings when the numbers go up, and I'd normally want to kick the scale across the room. Instead I just step on it really hard. :crying:

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every morning after I pee, once a day. it motivates me and lets me know that all my hard work pays off. FYI, when I "gain" a pain, overnight, lol, I know is Water weight or some sorth of shift so I dont sweat it. However, it motivates me to bust my booty at the gym :crying:

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I'm still healing and not so concerned about gaining or losing right now. My weight in my signature is from my first post op on 7/16 when they took my weight. I have another 7/30 and will post the new weight then. I won't get obsessive about losing until I'm on regular food and have been cleared to kick arse and take names exercise wise. Right now, I'm just walking and enjoying mushies. They'll be time to scale obsess later I reckon. LOL

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That sounds very interesting!! What type of program?

Excel Weight Loss

use this website, click on the image that you want, ofcourse you must have excel on ur pc and u must know how to use it as some people don't.

If u need to change the dates from 7 days to daily i suggest you message me and i will teach you how :biggrin:

good luck

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For me, once a week is perfect. I weigh myself on the professional scale at work, on the same day at the same time when I first get to work and haven't ate anything yet. If I feel I'm doing particularly good or bad, I may weigh myself one other time that week. Day to day doesn't work for me, my weight fluctuates too much day-to-day because of kidney problems so it can be very discouraging, and also give me false-hope thinking I lost tons of weight lol Plus, I've never been big on daily weigh ins because most people's weight fluctuates 2-3 pounds a day typically.

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While I really want to weigh myself daily (who knew that would happen??), I really can't anymore, and I do it only once a week (on Monday mornings). The reason being, when I would see my "weight" go up, I would get almost depressed. When I talked to my nutritionist about it, she said that at any given point in the day your weight can fluctuate between 3-4 pounds. She suggested I stick to once a week, and I really try to. That way when I see it down, I KNOW I lost weight the past week!

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Thanks a bunch...

Excel Weight Loss

use this website, click on the image that you want, ofcourse you must have excel on ur pc and u must know how to use it as some people don't.

If u need to change the dates from 7 days to daily i suggest you message me and i will teach you how :biggrin:

good luck

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I weigh in every two weeks and measure myself and put it all on a spreadsheet. I know sounds a little much but I do this so when I don't lose as much as I expected I can look at the inches and still see the loss. As exercise goes up the more muscle you'll gain and it well make you more toned and you will lose inches. I'm crazy I know!

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Erin you and I were banded on the same day and I weighed today and was told by my doctor to only weigh on the surgery day and that is Friday I am down 22 lbs from pre-op diet to date. 6lbs this week.. we can do this Erin it's hard but I know it will get easier as time passed hang in and let do this together.

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