How Often Should You Weigh

The dilemma that all weight conscious people live in, is whether one should weigh them regularly and how often should they weigh themselves. Experts differ in their opinion and that varies from every day to every week. Many researches also show that you should weigh yourself only once a month. Weighing yourselves on a daily basis isn’t advisable by experts and still many researches suggest daily weight is important.

Weighing yourself daily can be quite a challenge and de-motivating, you would become obsessed with weighing yourselves and it may lead to eating disorder. For some of us it might be helpful as if your progress is good you would feel motivated to move ahead. Still if you suffer from any sought of eating disorder stay away from the weighing scale.

Listed below is a compilation of some pros and cons of weighing yourself daily:

Advantages:

Get Motivated: If your weight loss progress is going strong and good it won’t do you any harm to weigh yourself daily and get an extra dose of motivation. If you don’t see any progress on a regular basis, you should avoid weighing yourself daily and making a sorry face.

The Daily Alarm: If you weigh yourself daily, it would be a great reminder or a note to let you know that you should stick to your diet and exercise program.

Quick Realization: If you weigh yourself daily and see the scale tilting higher from your weight measured couple of days back, you would amend your ways sooner and get back on track.

Accountable: You would stop playing a blame game and know the exact reasons of your weight gain, tackle with these reasons and start afresh.

Disadvantages:

Obsession with the scale and eat disorder: Weighing yourself every damn day can rise your obsession with the weighing scale and lead to various sought of eating disorder.

Get Frustrated: Daily checking your weight would bog you down and direct you to frustration; this leads to discouragement.

Weight Fluctuations: During the day you don’t weigh the same, if you weigh yourself in the morning and just before going to bed you would realize what is being said. That is why many experts ask you to weigh only once in one or two weeks, and weigh yourself during the same time of the day.

Minimal Daily Progress: Your daily weight loss or gain is minimal, even if you lose two-three pounds a week; you would notice hardly 0.5 pounds of weight fluctuation a day, which might put your spirits down. If you want a daily track of your weight try to use a digital weighing scale which is sensitive and notices even small amount of weight lost or gained.