Weight loss experts frequently advise against weighing yourself every day, often recommending instead that you weigh yourself only once every two or three weeks. They know that weight can flucuate wildly from one day to the next and they don't want you to be disheartened and give up on your weight control programme.

However, as with most things in life, the more information you have, the more accurate your decisions will be.

By simply calculating a rolling seven day average weight from your daily weight records you get an early warning when you are genuinely creeping up in weight, rather than simply flucuating due to daily changes in your body's water levels.

You'll also see when you are really losing weight.

Imagine weighing in at 150 pounds, then, three weeks later after solid daily exercise and diet control you weigh in at 148 pounds. Although the three week gap in weigh-ins has ensured that you see a loss, you'd be rightly troubled that you weren't losing weight as fast as you had thought.

But that is exactly what can happen if you only weigh yourself at such infrequent intervals - you may have actually lost around 6 or 7 pounds in those three weeks, but if your first recording was at a low-point, and your second recording is at a high point, then it looks like you've only lost two pounds!

The only intelligent way to monitor your weight is to use averages, and here is a simple tool to help you to do just that.

Fat Loser Online is a very simple, and free, site. Just record your daily weight (or as often as you are able) and share your data with your friends, compare results, or simply use the tool to stay in control.