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I weigh daily and then take an average for the week, then I compare the average score with previous weeks averages and that gives me a very good indication of where I am going and how fast (or slow). I started doing this at the beginning of January and find it helps me focus. However I DO enter my real weight into the tracker, but not on a daily basis. As Juliana says it's all down to personal preferences.

You will find this forum has wildly different ideas, methods, opinions etc.

there is no right and wrong and you will find "your" right way in time.

I think the above statement is so true, there are many different ways and that is why a forum like this works, different people express their ideas and others consider them.

This combined with an underlying principle of fasting and a common goal of improved health makes it work.

[carorees]

Here are a couple of graphs I prepared showing my actual weigh-ins over a month and how infrequent weighing can give a false idea of how the weight-loss is progressing compared with daily weighing and a trend-line:

If I had only weighed myself at the points indicated I might have thought I had gained weight or plateaued

But by weighing daily and applying a trendline I can see that my weight is steadily decreasing.

Weigh ins with IF are a series of bounces and whooshes-for the most accurate picture compare your first weigh in of the month, after a fasting day, with the last weigh in of the month, after a fasting day That will give you a better idea of what's actually happening.

totally agree, my official weigh-in is every friday morning and I try sooo hard to not jump on the scales in-between weeks, because more often than not I will have magically gained a pound and be disappointed! (but then on my friday weigh-in it will hopefully have disappeared again!)

Here are a couple of graphs I prepared showing my actual weigh-ins over a month and how infrequent weighing can give a false idea of how the weight-loss is progressing compared with daily weighing and a trend-line:

If I had only weighed myself at the points indicated I might have thought I had gained weight or plateaued

Infrequent weighing.png

But by weighing daily and applying a trendline I can see that my weight is steadily decreasing.

Frequent weighing.png

Good chart and explanation Carorees, thanx