How Often Should You Weigh Yourself?

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How Often Should You Weigh Yourself?
Imagine this: You decide it’s time to make a concerted effort to lose weight. You start exercising regularly and embark on a healthy eating plan. The time comes to check in on your progress, so you step on the scale for the moment of truth.
You haven’t lost any weight.
What do you do? Continue with the exercise and healthy eating plan? Throw in the towel, and go back to what you were doing before? Start restricting your eating even more as an effort to make weight loss happen faster?
The truth is that weight loss isn't going to happen faster. Restricting food isn't a good idea, you only lose energy. Energy you need to workout. When you first start a weight loss program it may take a few weeks for your body to adjust to your new diet. You can put your body in hibernation mode by cutting out meals or restricting food. So, you have to eat healthy, fresh foods to give you energy and with more energy, you can workout longer and that will help you lose weight faster. Have patience, if you carried around the extra weight for a few years, it will take longer to lose it.
Weight fluctuations are common because your weight is determined by a variety of factors. These include but are not limited to how hydrated you are, what you recently ate, your bathroom habits, the climate, and your exercise routine. A few pounds of weight fluctuation here or there are usually not a result of fat gain but a result of your body doing exactly what it needs to do to regulate its physiological functions. So, how often should you weigh yourself? Whether your goal is maintenance, loss or gain, let’s talk about the scale.
The very first question you need to ask yourself is: “Will weighing myself (daily, weekly, periodically, etc.) help me or harm me?” Since there’s no magic answer for how often to weigh yourself, figuring out what is helpful and motivating for you as an individual is how you decide.
DAILY WEIGH-INS
Many people find weighing in daily provides a sense of accountability.  For many, it helps to keep progress on track. If you’re able to look at the overall trend and not stress about the fluctuations, then, by all means, weigh yourself daily.
It does depend on you. If you can be objective and you're not going to get depressed, sometimes I will encourage a person to weigh in daily because it's a good reminder that you have a goal and your going to go through the day remembering what you have to do to keep you weight going in the right direction.
WEEKLY WEIGH-INS
I recommend weekly weigh-ins for workout fanatics. If you already have a good diet and exercise plan your weight won't fluctuate much. 
Recognize that it will take a few weeks to get a picture of where the trend is heading. This can be a good tool to help you feel accountable without making you ride the daily emotional roller coaster that is (or can be) the scale.
OCCASIONAL WEIGH-INS
Some people opt for the occasional weight check-in. People may do this at home or rely on the scale at the gym or doctor’s office to get an idea of where they are. People who opt for the occasional weigh-in often have alternative ways of identifying weight shifts, like the way their clothes fit or how strong they feel while exercising. A good indicator is your pants, "your pants don't lie".
NEVER WEIGHING
There are many people out there who smash their scale and never look back. Some people find it helpful to focus on how they feel in their clothes, the balance of their meals and snacks and how they perform with their exercise rather than focusing on the number. This can be a valid way to approach health — there’s much more to health than a number on the scale! Some people get depressed by looking at the scale. You can tell by your waist. Measure yourself once a week, you don't need a scale. Measure your waist, hips, and thighs and keep a log.
Weighing yourself often is wrong. Your weight fluctuates throughout the day and is different almost every day of the week. I weigh myself every Friday morning before I shower or drink anything. If you're keeping a food and active log, you only need the scale to see if you're still going in the right direction. Your log is a reference to see what mistakes you made or when you slip off the wagon, you can refer to the log to get on track.

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