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Contrary to popular belief, I’m an advocate of weighing yourself as much as ya want, within reason of course. It’s important, however, to know when and when not to weigh yourself. The best time is when you wait up before you put anything in your stomach.
For the most part, the scale has been a MAJOR motivator in my weight lost! And this notion goes against your average expert of nutrition and fitness who wouldn’t support my belief.
I think weighing yourself 2-3/week has been sufficient for me! The scale is a direct measure of success for weight lost!!! However, I’ve had to learn that, as I develop more muscle tone, the scale might not always be reflective of what I think it should be. The scale is able to tell me if I’m working hard enough with my diet and activity level.
-Always weigh yourself in the morning, before you eat anything! Why weigh yourself after you’ve eaten something. So what if you’re psyching yourself out with the scale by doing this; it’s better to fake til ya make it. And with this, I’ve turned all of it into fuel for motivation. Sometimes, I like to weigh myself after a good workout at the gym.
-Don’t weigh yourself if ya know you haven’t been living up to your diet and/or exercising for a period of time. Why feed yourself voluntary negative feedback. However, with this, if you’ve lost focus for some extended period of time–say 2 weeks plus, weighing yourself can be a great motivator in helping ya get back on track. I’m speaking from experience. I had to do this today. I knew I wasn’t working well on my diet and exercising.
Well, I had gained 7 pounds from my inactivity. I didn’t get discouraged; it made me so eager to get back into the gym and on the streets jogging and walking. As easy as I can gain 7 pounds, I knew I can lose it. Why? A small percentage of those 7 pounds is just retained water and food on the belly. I take a hypertension/diuretic which helps much in ridding the body of excess and unneccerily retained water. Every little pound lost is a pound of motivation!
-Write down on a calendar, your weigh-in weight! This is good to see your progressions(or regressions) over time.
So, what works for me, is what I’ve stated above! Us humans are built to have a need for validation. The scale gives me this validation in concrete numbers. I welcome all opinions on this topic! Other measurable entities such as the body mass index(bmi measurement) and body fat content may be more pertinent, but the old fashion scale is our most readily available tool to us. I try to look at weighing myself in a very superficial way, meaning that I block out all other opinions and facts related to weighing oneself. It’s all about me, and what the scale says. The scale doesn’t lie. However, it might not solely tell the whole truth. 
Thanks for reading, and more power to ya in the search for a fit’er and healthier self, both physically and mentally.
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I’ve to completely agree with this. Weighing myself each morning is a great motivator for me. I just tell myself, just 1 pound more, and another…and another. It’s what keeps me going each day.
And before I know it, I’ve lost 16 pounds in 2 months! so good tip, definitely.
Wow Chloe, that’s so nice to her that you’re meeting your weight lost goals. You must have been pretty consistent to have lost so much in a small amount of time. But ya know, the more we understand how calorie intake effects weight lost/gain, the journey is that much attainable. In a nutshell, the 3500 calories is equal to 1 pound. So, we must burn off 3500 calories just to lose 1 pound. Sounds dooming, but it really isn’t. Everything we do on a daily basis is equal to calories burned, and at the end of the day, if we’ve burned more calories than we’ve taken in, in a few days we began to see pounds falling off. The keep to increasing our metabolism is to increase our activities in every which way possible. I’m working on my next post to bullet point ways to burn calories without even exercising. Some of you will be surprised. Thanks Chloe for your response.