Liliann, I weigh once a month, because I can't take the anxiety, especially if I had a food binge, like today. In a month, things kind of even out.
I can tell when my clothes feel looser or tighter.
I am trying to have less binges. They have been more frequent lately. I guess when my leg hurts I eat more.
I guess whatever we do should be a pleasant experience or we won't keep at it.

My hubby and I weigh ourselves once a week. Every day isn't good, because there are water fluctuations in our body. You can weigh more one day than the day before but gain a half pound because you drank more water or had extra salt in your diet that day. Over the period of a week, our weight fluctuation even out.

My clothes also tell a story. Personally, I don't like a tape measure.

I use both. And yes, I'm a scale addict!

I'm a numbers person and I finally decided to use it like any other tool. I weigh every morning right after my shower. I also track my food on a separate website. And I wear a fitness tracker. Told you I was an addict ;)

I keep a worksheet and record the numbers each day. Doing this has helped me figure out a lot of things about what my body likes and doesn't and how long certain things take. For me, it takes about 2 days for a gain from bad food choices to show up. Too many carbs (over 150net grams for me) show up the next day in water weight. LOTS of green tea helps the water weight go away. There are a lot of little things I've figured out so I don't panic when I see a gain.

I think of it as just another tool like the speedometer on the car. If I look down and see that I'm speeding I don't think I'm a failure. I just change what I'm doing to get back to where I need to be.

I do both. I's a geek so I use to take my weight and measurements everyday then plot the results. The tends helped me understand my progress and changes that needed to be made. For instance I gain ~7 lbs over the last four months but I lost 2 inches off my waist. I did gain an inch in butt however my legs are 50% stronger.

Try not to focus too much on individual scale reading but the overall tends. You will have ups and downs throughout the week.

Drat, got the dreaded zero size error. Time to remember what I wrote!

I weight myself every time I go to the Gym, but that works for me. I am usually able to tie my weight gain to things like pizza (and the salt induced water weight) or inactivity. I know that my weight can go up or down by a pound or more in any given day. If I waited to weigh myself once a month I'd be really annoyed if I had a bad diet day just before weigh in.

WE used to have a group here where we challenged ourselves to adopt better/healthier behaviors. We tracked things like getting enough fiber in our diets, drinking enough water, avoiding treats, stuff like that. That way we can track things we can control (our behavior) and then weight loss will follow.

Do what works for you!

Pepperman, that thought process of adopting better and healthier behaviours is a good one I think. It's been helping me a lot for a couple years.

Periodically though I slide into that "dieting to lose weight" mentality. I start eating badly, skipping meals, feeling deprived and head for a binge. Just going thru one of those phases now ;-(

Thank you for the reminder of what works - or at least works for me.

Time to get back to simply eating right and moving more. The weight will take care of itself.

Thanks all...

I weigh daily..once in the morning, which I weigh less..and weigh before dinner and weigh more..Its weird....This year upgraded to a digital scale and always weigh more pm and less am..I never had this problem with my old scale that is a old fashion doctors scale with sliding block...

Speaking scales... Which scale do you all use?? Digital or non digital?? Thanks so much for your input..

Liliann

I have a digital scale Liliann. I used to have an old fashioned dial scale that was wildly inaccurate - I mean I could weigh 4 or 5 times in a row and come up with numbers 5 lbs different.

Re: weighing less in the morning -- that's when I weigh too. Right after my shower and before breakfast. Do a search on "why do I weigh less in the morning". There's a whole science behind it that's really pretty interesting! I figure morning is when I'll get the most consistent result.

My gym has a balance beam scale. I suspect that it weighs a bit low because the notches for the big weight are a bit loose, and, well, one can cheat a bit and nudge that big one a bit to the right!

My local grocery store has a large scale. I love it. You stand on it, and it has this huge needle that goes to the correct weight. I have a non digital one at home, which is also good. But, I only like to weigh once a month. I can tell by the way I look and how my clothes fit. I buy my clothes at a flea market and have size 8 thru 16, so I have all the bases covered. Beautiful clothes and so cheap, and some still have the tags on them. Have a great day everyone.

Thank you for your feedback all..I decided to weigh weekly..and so far so good. Sundays is my day.

My scale was up 2 Lbs this morning...Rats!!! ugh!! I was an and off my plan on eating sweets...Not easy when these forbidden foods staring out me..Need to be stronger ..This weekend get back on track...

BUT

Even the scale was up...I lost 2 inches off my waist!! I am one happy chick!! :)

I have an old fashioned scale but I just calibrate it to make sure it's accurate as can be. I think you're doing a great job, Lillian. You look fabulous in your picture too. An old friend of mine used to refuse to own a scale and went by how his clothes fit. Oddly, with him using his size for his measure, and me using my scale, we were a great team, encouraging one another. Sharing ideas is always fun. I do notice when clothes are loose or tighter. It's like an obsession of mine. I get really upset with myself when something fits tighter than usual but then again, I feel pretty good when things loosen up too. Crazy cycles I go through. :)

The scale can drive you nuts!

I weigh myself maybe once a month but go more by how my clothes fit and I stay the same weight give or take a few pounds as you can weigh yourself every day and always get a different number due to various things, water retention, time of the month etc and that's what drove me nuts and I was obsessed, once a week is good though to keep track.

What happens with our bodies when we change our eating habits is that if exercise is included, we gain muscle which replaces the fat and muscle weighs more than fat so sometimes we feel like we aren't accomplishing our goals, or get frustrated. I have always found that the scale lies, but your clothes don't. They are a good indicator of how you are doing. Have a set of clothes you wear all the time, and buy a pair of pants and a top that are a size smaller then you wear. That will help much more than a scale will. It's okay to use the scale maybe once a month just to see what it says, but trust your clothes first. Hugs GB