maurined's Journal, 28 June 2015

Any time you want! 

did it and says at that rate will take 3 months for goal wt. wish that was true. 

Don't discount the possibility, but early weight loss tends to be quicker. The closer you get to your goal, ie. the leaner you are, the slower the weight tends to come off. Also, each day when you weigh in it calculates what your weight loss is at that rate for a week and warns you that you're gaining or loosing weight at too rapid a weight. Ignore that. Fluctuations can easily vary as much as 2 pounds in a day because of water weight from the choices of foods you make and body function. (Yeah, sorry.) Hit your calories each day. Weigh your foods rather than measure if possible. Take advantage of all of us for support. A word of warning. Many people have 'the best way' to lose weight. Some things are very productive. That's different from dogma. Find what works for you and do the things that everyone says works... like weighing your food. You're going to do great! 

Oh, and, to get back to your beginning comment, I weight in daily. It's a necessity for me. I'm just wired that way. Same time every day. 

They say that because your body can fluctuate 1 to 2 lbs on a day to day basis, the best thing to do is to Weigh yourself One a week. Same day every week - same time. That way you can accurately measure how your gains or loss are going. Doing a day to day weigh-in is really nonconstructive because you aren't getting an accurate portrayal of what your diet/exercise is doing for your body.  

I actually disagree. Since your weight can fluctuate 2 pounds a day you could easily weigh in low one week and high the next making it look like nothing has happened. Basically I weigh daily but don't obsess over it (you guys be quiet) and only accept the lowest weight of the week as my progress. 

Somewhere on the web I read that it is a good practice to weigh daily, and then to average those weights each week. That is the approach I am taking. If I weigh only once/week, I tend to do too much cheating with my diet ;-) 

Oh, I don't believe there's anywhere on here to place average weight records, so I just add mine to an Excel spreadsheet that I use for recording my Wii exercise activities. If you don't use Excel, you could just do it the old fashioned way on paper ;-) 

Wish there was a way to edit my comments here.... I guess you could also just use your weekly average as your weigh-in amount if you wanted it tracked here.