Weigh Yourself Everyday (or frequently) Club

vicincali2 said:
I just have a regular scale that came from Target. It’s almost accurate. I don’t know about the 1/10 lbs though....
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ok... same here, but mine rounds off to the closest ½lb. it also has an interesting quirk... for the longest time i would weight myself at any one time, three times in a row just to make sure i got a good reading. after a while i noticed that they always agreed. ok, but you'd think at least some time it's going to be so close that it might change by that ½lb... but it never did. then i tried something different. i often have a toolbox right next to my scale. i weighed myself once, then weighted myself holding the toolbox, then just me again. son of a b.... it now changed sometimes by that ½lb. they must have written some logic to the display that if it sees something very close, within a certain time, it will freeze that number. i can see this as a feature built in to give they scale readings more credibility. it's a digital scale... it uses a dedicated microprocessor... it would be easy to do.
 
Once started I don't seem to be able to avoid the frequent weigh ins. So far I have seen a range from about 292 to 298, so I think by Wednesday I'll be down again.

overlandflyer said:
just curious what scale you use that is accurate to 1/10 lb?
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Most all bathroom scales can read to 1/10th of a pound, probably none are accurate even to a full pound. Try weighing yourself on different scales, when I have they never seem to agree very well. I round to the nearest pound.
 
troutman said:
This is a club for those that want to face the facts & weigh them selfs everyday. For myself I know when I weighed 160 Lbs. many many years ago if I weighed myself everyday I would not of wound up weighing 309 Lbs. I think that is the way with a lot of us. So just post your weight everyday. I think if we do this we will eventually get sick & tired & start losing weight.

Todays weight - 249.50
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I’m sorry - I have to disagree with weighing every day - the simple facts that body weight fluctuates all the time and even more important - getting a fixation on a number everyday creates mental health issues around weight .
I would recommend weekly -
But more important is having small targets to an end DATED goal weight - Small weightloss over a longer time is much better for health than a sudden loss.
The problem with weighing everyday is a proven path to anorexia and body dis morphia, and no one wants to go that path if they can help it.
 
positiveyou said:
the simple facts that body weight fluctuates all the time and even more important...
I would recommend weekly
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When I first tried this I would have agreed with you, but now that I have been at it for a couple of weeks I think I am gaining a better understanding of what effects my weight short term. I have no trouble getting an understanding of what I am averaging and that's what I post as what I call my "official" weight on a weekly basis. I think it makes that official weekly weight more accurate.

positiveyou said:
The problem with weighing everyday is a proven path to anorexia and body dis morphia, and no one wants to go that path if they can help it.
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I can see that, it could lead to obsessing with the scale and short term weight. Not a problem for me, but others need to think about this.
 
overlandflyer said:
i seriously can't see how the "once a week" crowd can pass a scale without being curious enough to look. i walk by my scale about a dozen times a day... it would drive me crazy.
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I don't, you are right it is too hard to resist. In the past couple of days I have seen 292 to 297, so when I weighed 295 this morning I took it as my official weight for the week.
 
positiveyou said:
... The problem with weighing everyday is a proven path to anorexia and body dis morphia, ....
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remember this one? ... "smoking pot is a gateway to harder drugs" ... everyone is different ... you only hear about the ones who have a problem, and with billions of people to choose from, there is no shortage of examples for anything you can think of.
 
I am finding frequent weighing to be very helpful, I now see how much my weight fluctuates and can kind of figure out why.

On a positive note, this morning I got my first glimpse of the 280s, I don't expect to stay there long, but it feels good to see it coming into range.
 
it's a smile to see a new low... it may not be there tomorrow, but i guarantee, it will not only appear again, in a while you'll more than likely see it for the last time, too. this is a morning weight, but even after lunch i was hitting 169. a few months ago i was seeing weights in the 160s occasionally... now i don't believe i'll be seeing many, if any in the 170s.

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I have been weighing several times a day, bounced from 295 to high 280s in the last couple of days, so when I saw 293 this morning I took it as my "official" weight of the week.
 
Just came across a couple of references that support the idea of frequent weighing. It seems this does lead to more weight loss, thorough better self awareness.

The efficacy of a daily self-weighing weight loss intervention using smart scales and email. - The efficacy of a daily self-weighing weight loss intervention using smart scales and email

Self-weighing in weight management interventions: A systematic review of literature. - Self-weighing in weight management interventions: A systematic review of literature. - PubMed - NCBI

I find it helpful, I weigh most every time I am in the bathroom, more than once a day.
 
140.6 lbs
 
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