Why I weigh myself daily

Posted on October 3, 2014

My goal is to get healthy. I'm using this DietBet to help me focus on me and not all the distractions in my life.

I've been logging everything I eat since I started this DietBet. I'm weighing myself daily to see how my diet and exercise affects my body on a daily basis. Charting my weigh fluctuations will help me better understand how my choices affect my body. I've tried weighing in once a week in the past but if it happens to be one of those days when my weight is fluctuating up, I get discouraged. Seeing my weight each day and seeing that it's normal for my weight to go up a day and then back down, helps me not to be so hard on myself. Having someone tell me it's normal for weight to fluctuate means nothing to me. I have to see the proof with my own body to believe it's normal.

We should all do what we need to do to get in tune with our bodies and our habits, regardless of what others say we should be doing. What works for you may not work for me and vice versa.

I have lofty goals for next year which I hope to write about in a future blog. This time next year, if I meet my goals, I will be a much healthier and fit version of my current self. I'm getting there one step at a time.

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Mel

10/03/2014 5:09PM

I am a daily weigher too. I find it takes the scale power away, and makes me more aware of how what I eat affects those fluctuations (salt, etc). Since it is part of my routine, it is just habit and the scale is not a scary thing. :)

Lindy

10/03/2014 12:40PM

I've learned a lot about my body from weighing myself daily. I don't do it to beat myself up over gaining, I do it to learn how my body metabolized the things I'm eating and the exercises I'm doing. For example, I learned that ANYTHING with soy sauce means an automatic two pound gain for about 36-48 hours - regular salt doesn't affect me that way, but soy sauce turns my body into a water receptacle. I've learned that walking with short bursts of jogging every few minutes is more productive for me than straight jogging. I've learned that drinking a full glass of water and a small healthy snack (half an apple, 1 cup of air popped popcorn) before bed seems to help me shed a few more ounces each day and keeps me from waking up feeling like I could eat everything in the refrigerator! Everyone's body is unique - I like that the scale has become a tool for me to understand how my body reacts to different things.

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Jessica B.

10/03/2014 11:46AM

I weigh myself every day too! I feel like if I was weighing myself every week I'd get nervous and impatient and if I wasn't totally good on the day before a weigh-in and I went up I'd get discouraged and thing that reflects on my whole week. I totally understand. I think seeing how your actions and choices affect you daily can help encourage good habits and help correct bad ones faster. Maybe weekly works better for some people, but like you said, it depends on the person.

Just like diet and exercise programs. There are many ways to eat right and many ways to stay active, but different people will enjoy or find it easier to stick to different programs and plans, so it could be the same for how (and how often) people measure progress.

Good for you for sticking to what makes sense to you and good luck in this DietBet :)