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What's the best time to weigh yourself?
Your healthier, fitter life
Tanita is on a mission to help people lead fitter healthier lives and that starts with thinking ‘body composition’ rather than weight loss or BMI.
Weight alone doesn’t necessarily give a clear indication of good health. Stepping on the scales can’t show the difference between kilos or pounds that come from body fat and those that come from lean body tissue like muscle and bone. In fact losing weight can actually make you fatter! Crash diets and no exercise make your body fat percentage go up even though your body weight is decreasing.
By focussing on improving your hydration, building muscle and healthy eating you will be on a path to long-term health rather than short-term weight loss.
I’ve been eating healthily and exercising, so why am I not losing weight?
Often, when you start a new fitness programme you don’t appear to be losing weight because exercising and healthy eating will mean that you are reducing body fat and replacing it with newly developed pounds of lean muscle tissue, which is denser and thus heavier than body fat.
Is there a best time to ‘weigh’ yourself?
It is tempting to step onto your scale as soon as you wake up, but we all dehydrate as we sleep and so you will not get accurate readings first thing in the morning. We recommend you measure before your evening meal and after emptying your bladder.
How often should you ‘weigh’ yourself?
There is no hard and fast rule about how often you should step on your monitor and check your measurements, but readings can naturally fluctuate over short periods of time so it is sensible to take readings regularly, but not too frequently. Stepping to frequently onto your monitor and not seeing the desired results can cause a lot of mental stress. Therefor, we recommend to definitely not do this. An average of once a week should be ideal to give you a clear picture of the impact of your activity and healthy eating.