Trainers are revealing just how often you should weigh yourself with informative graphics that you should be reading right now.

Starting on a journey of weight loss is a noble goal, but it’s one that will require some incredible perseverance. It’s easy to get disheartened by even the slightest setback, which is why the scale is something that people tend to avoid.

It’s a catch 22: you need to weigh yourself to make sure you’re losing weight, but seeing that number go up can take all the wind out of your sails and land you back on the couch eating a bag of Doritos faster than you can say “let’s binge every series on Netflix.”

That stupid number can be so powerful, and yet it’s also easily misunderstood. Luckily, we have personal trainer Chad Hargrove to the rescue. You can tell he’s a personal trainer because he’s named Chad.

Chad shared an incredibly handy infographic recently that shows how you can weigh yourself every week and think that you’re not losing weight when in actual fact you have.

Your weight can fluctuate daily by as much as five whole pounds. It all depends on what you put in versus what you get rid of. Have a huge meal and not have a bowel movement and you can easily be five pounds heavier by the end of the day than when you started. Even if you don’t eat a huge meal, your liquid content can also have a huge effect on your day-to-day weight too.

RELATED: WEIGHT LOSS MAY BE LINKED TO GENETIC MAKEUP OF GUT BACTERIA

So it’s not enough to weigh yourself a few times a week. You actually need to weigh yourself every day and record that weight, then take an average. If you see you’re average weight going down, then you’ll know you’re losing weight.

Most people want to see those numbers go down and keep going down, but that’s just not what weight loss looks like. Chad had another infographic that does a great job showing just how your weight can fluctuate and still overall be losing weight.

The key here is to not be too concerned with the numbers, and instead be more concerned with lines on a graph. After you’ve entered all your daily weights into a spreadsheet, the average line just has to be pointed down rather than up.

NEXT: CHEAT MEALS ACTUALLY HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT, STUDY FINDS