Prevent Weight Gain with Daily Weigh-Ins

This program helps me so much....most of all because its free to me! poor people like me love to have the nice benifits as going to weight watchers.....wher
e as that program cost like up to $15. a week....i just cant pay and track that way! thank you to the staff at spark people! ill reach my goal with your help! kimberly - 4/26/2013 6:20:02 PM

I feel that daily weigh-in helps me understand what foods will make me gain. If I eat potatoes one day I can gain up to 2 pounds the next day. It also helps if I gain one day even just a little I make myself work harder that day. If I loose it makes me feel good about myself and I work harder because I feel like I have did good for myself. It is something that just helps me. - 2/9/2013 11:39:53 AM

Daily or weekly? I think it depends on how you react to the number you see. If a daily up/down makes you feel hopeless then a weekly weigh-in would help to smooth the graph. During the loss phase I will weigh weekly then on maintenance I 'll weigh daily. I think a 3-4 lb change upward calls for immediate action. - 2/7/2013 3:50:20 PM

One reason why I think the people that weighed in more often lost weight is because they more involved in losing weight. Weight loss requires the proper mentality. Your mind is very powerful, if you train your mind the right way you can achieve anything. Losing weight is not an easy task for a lot of people, some people need more help than others. Check out www.thealiveacade
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I have just started to weigh in daily....helps me.... - 10/7/2012 2:40:14 PM

I weigh in daily, to see if I need to take my water pill , for my heart and hypertension, if it is up and I have a little bit of a headache, I know all that water is not leaving my body and I have to flush some of it out in order to avoid problems, the weigh in thing is individual I guess because we all have diffrent body chemistries and such - 8/15/2012 10:25:00 AM

But yet other articles on SparkPeople say NOT to weigh-in daily for weight-loss. So what's the deal? I personally find it discouraging just because of the natural fluctuations a person experiences throughout the week, due to water retention, and other things. So I'll get stressed out when I see it go up during the week (even if I've not changed anything with diet or exercise) but yet on my normal weigh-in day, the end result is still a loss of pounds. So I think I'll stick to once a week.... - 5/19/2012 10:50:10 AM

This article helps to reinforce my belief that weighing daily helps prevent regaining the weight we worked so hard to lose. Having the support of other Sparkers also helps me keep on track. - 5/19/2012 8:33:08 AM

I am with a group of 10 ladies we weigh in once a week and it is ok however I want to start a daily weigh-in to be more aware of the progress i am making daily. - 4/1/2012 11:48:32 AM

I weight myself first thing every day and track my weight on the fit bit web site. I have been tracking my weight because it allows me to manage my congestive heart failure. By tracking changes in my diet and exercise levels, I have been able to decrease some of my daily meds. If my wieght changes by two pounds overnight, I am advised to call the clinic. Obviously, some foods choices will trigger this - like a reuben sandwich, asian food, and prepared dishes/soups. I can see cause and effect of food choices. I was surprised by "snow krab legs" recently. Surimi itself is low salt but the processing method to make surimi into artificial crab adds a LOT of salt to create the taste, feel, and appearance. - 3/3/2012 5:01:14 PM

I have read that weighing everyday is not good when trying to lose weight but good for maintaining weight loss. Hence the seeming contradictions in articles. - 1/26/2012 10:50:37 AM

I've been in maintenance for approximately 7 weeks. Daily weigh-in's do not work for me. Prior to maintenance I weighed in every other Friday - faithfully. Now in maintenance, I weigh in every Friday - faithfully. Once I reached maintenance, I tried weighing in 3 days a week but it was to much. Every Friday works perfect for me.

BTW... a 5 pound range is too broad for me. If I am 2.5 or 3 pounds up... I'm all over it. - 1/20/2012 3:48:17 PM

I just read two articles this morning. The one said to put the scale away and not look at it every day, but once a week or month and to use other ways to track your progress.

This article says weigh every day - Both articles written by Spark! Doesn't make a lot of sense to me to be so contradictory. - 1/8/2012 2:14:58 PM

I have been a weigh every day person but I am more relaxed now, but then again you could also argue that I have gained weight. The daily weigh in will probably kick in again now I have found this site, however I am more inclined to wach the scales for trends now. My weight can fluctuate a bit but I do see if the lower numbers start to appear more before they become my official weight.

If I have "stuck to it" then generally I believe, it will happen but sometimes the loss takes longer than others to show. - 1/8/2012 9:32:07 AM

I weigh in every morning. Honestly speaking, I am somewhat convinced that my "need" to weigh in has more than a little something to do with my awakening earlier than I hope to every day. But, that aside, the practice of a daily weigh in really keeps me in touch with my body's needs and responses, ; i.e., I inevitably will show a gain of at least 1 lb if I consume more sodium than usual (or recommended) the day before. I have totally enjoyed this journey of self-discovery and find it quite empowering to renovate and remodel this temple entrusted to me! - 8/24/2011 10:51:26 PM