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Do You Weigh Yourself Everyday Or Weekly?

I would have been helpless with laughter when I realized the situation - I have a wicked sense of humour, and when I'd recovered I'd have been relating the joke to the practice manager.
 
I have learned that I apparently lose weight in a "burst" or "whoosh" fashion, meaning I go very long periods of time losing nothing, then suddenly lose a bunch of weight.

I don’t even own a scale. Weighing myself every day when I can go two months losing nothing would just discourage me. I weigh myself at my doctor's whenever I go there for some other reason.
 
I no longer weigh myself after years of daily weighing. After a few years on LCHF and then TRF (time restricted feeding), my weight was boringly unchanging and I finally decided to keep counting carbs, but ignore my scales and trust the process. I guestimate my weight these days based purely by fit of clothes. Been nearly a year and except for being measured a couple of times by doctors, weight seems unchanged, though I think there have been some favourable body comp changes judging by clothes and "eye".
 
Weigh/measure once a year. I've been on a bit of a nutrient density/muscle building bender for the last two years & was aware that at my age & small size it would probably be slow going - I was right! First year I gained a whole 1 1/2kg but my measurements barely moved so some OK newbie gains. Second year - I've not gained so much as a gram but I did increase my lean body mass by 1kg, decrease my bodyfat by 1 kg, & shrink a bit. I think if I weighed more often I'd probably get just a bit discouraged.
 
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