Weighing less at night?
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My husband is tracking his weight daily and is confused by his numbers. He weighs more in the mornings (gone pee/#2, no food, just out of bed) than in the evenings (eaten food, drank water), a 1-2# difference. He asked if I knew why. I said, "Probably because you're a man."
How can someone weigh 2# less after consuming 5# worth of food/water? I understand about breathing and sweating, but THAT much loss?
From what he tells me about his meals, he's not eating a deficit.
How can someone weigh 2# less after consuming 5# worth of food/water? I understand about breathing and sweating, but THAT much loss?
From what he tells me about his meals, he's not eating a deficit.
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I weigh less at 12pm than 8am always do
He just needs to weigh a set day and time as your looking for a loss so in the end it will be goal0 -
I don't know how anyone could weigh less at night, than in the morning after peeing. Unless he is getting up at night and eating/drinking. I think a different scale is in order.0
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Weigh once a day at the same time and stop being so anal about it.9
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trigden1991 wrote: »Weigh once a day at the same time and stop being so anal about it.
What great advice for a person just starting to track their weight. "Please stop trying to learn about yourself."
Still doesn't answer why he weighs less after putting in more weight.10 -
fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »I don't know how anyone could weigh less at night, than in the morning after peeing. Unless he is getting up at night and eating/drinking. I think a different scale is in order.
Scale is fine. Weighs my 2# hand weights as 2#.0 -
Is he eating a lot of fibre? maybe it's bowel movements0
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The same happens with my husband! I figured it was a male metabolism thing because I sure as heck don't weigh less during the day...0
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trigden1991 wrote: »Weigh once a day at the same time and stop being so anal about it.
What great advice for a person just starting to track their weight. "Please stop trying to learn about yourself."
Still doesn't answer why he weighs less after putting in more weight.
I agree with the stop obsessing comment. What difference does it make?1 -
Does he weigh himself before bed or does he eat more after weighing in the evening?0
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caroldavison332 wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Weigh once a day at the same time and stop being so anal about it.
What great advice for a person just starting to track their weight. "Please stop trying to learn about yourself."
Still doesn't answer why he weighs less after putting in more weight.
I agree with the stop obsessing comment. What difference does it make?
Because some of us aren't obsessed or paranoid, just curious.
Watching the scale fluctuate 5 lbs or more helps me understand my metabolism and daily fluctuations, and most importantly to not freak out if the scale jumps up for a couple days after a change in habits. or jumps down when changing again.
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I notice that when I first wake up, my hands and face are more puffy than later in the afternoon. Maybe he has a little water retention overnight that clears up?
I haven't done an evening weight check, but now I'm curious...
And, yeah, curious and obsessive are two different things.3 -
CassondraKennedy wrote: »The same happens with my husband! I figured it was a male metabolism thing because I sure as heck don't weigh less during the day...
I'm lightest first thing in the morning, and I'm male.
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Tacklewasher wrote: »CassondraKennedy wrote: »The same happens with my husband! I figured it was a male metabolism thing because I sure as heck don't weigh less during the day...
I'm lightest first thing in the morning, and I'm male.
Likewise, but I manage my hydration excessively perhaps. It can be as much as 8 pounds... I'm IVO 235 these days.0 -
I weight my lowest in the afternoon/evening just before dinner. First thing in the morning, even after using the bathroom, I am always 2-4lb heavier than say 3pm. I eat my largest meal at dinner so for me it makes sense.
Does your husband enjoy large dinners?3 -
This happens to me a few times a week (I'm female), but it's only usually workdays.
During the week, I eat very little until the evening (500 or so throughout the day) but I drink a ton of water/coffee/tea whatever. My big meal is at night after a workout/walk so I'm eating dinner after 8pm most days. I don't know if it's the combination of the workout and dehydration, any sodium consumption hasn't had time to register, or something weirder. But most workdays I'm either the same weight or up to 1lb heaver in the AM (after bathroom etc) as I was before I went to bed.
Also thinking about it, I rarely go #2 in the mornings...probably since my eating is shifted more towards the evenings. Maybe I just have more waste in my system so the weight doesn't come down right away.
Facinating....
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stanmann571 wrote: »caroldavison332 wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Weigh once a day at the same time and stop being so anal about it.
What great advice for a person just starting to track their weight. "Please stop trying to learn about yourself."
Still doesn't answer why he weighs less after putting in more weight.
I agree with the stop obsessing comment. What difference does it make?
Because some of us aren't obsessed or paranoid, just curious.
Watching the scale fluctuate 5 lbs or more helps me understand my metabolism and daily fluctuations, and most importantly to not freak out if the scale jumps up for a couple days after a change in habits. or jumps down when changing again.
Great post.
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Hubby weighs in the morning after peeing and #2. He weighs in the evening after supper, so he's got at least 3 meals in him and 1L of water. He ate 2 McGriddles, 2 Burger King original chicken sammiches, probably a PB cookie from Tim's (he didn't say but he usually has something while waiting for his ride home), supper (similar to what I had if you want to snoop), 8 wasabi ranch snapeas, 8 chocolate almonds, half a bag of low sodium potato chips (about 170 g, the bag is 255 g), and 17 arrowroot cookies yesterday. He may have eaten more after I went to sleep.
It seems strange to him that he can eat/drink several pounds of food and weigh less, while having not consumed anything for 7 hours he weighs more. Yesterday morning he weighed 261.4, last night 259.6, this morning 260.2. Yes, the body fluctuates in weight, but how does it weigh less after adding weight?1 -
I weight my lowest in the afternoon/evening just before dinner. First thing in the morning, even after using the bathroom, I am always 2-4lb heavier than say 3pm. I eat my largest meal at dinner so for me it makes sense.
Does your husband enjoy large dinners?
That's not what the OP is saying, unless I am misunderstanding. The husband is weighing at night, before bed, and then in the morning, he weighs more than he did at bedtime.
**edit...ok I misread. He is weighing sometime the evening before, but not at bedtime.0 -
Hubby weighs in the morning after peeing and #2. He weighs in the evening after supper, so he's got at least 3 meals in him and 1L of water. He ate 2 McGriddles, 2 Burger King original chicken sammiches, probably a PB cookie from Tim's (he didn't say but he usually has something while waiting for his ride home), supper (similar to what I had if you want to snoop), 8 wasabi ranch snapeas, 8 chocolate almonds, half a bag of low sodium potato chips (about 170 g, the bag is 255 g), and 17 arrowroot cookies yesterday. He may have eaten more after I went to sleep.
It seems strange to him that he can eat/drink several pounds of food and weigh less, while having not consumed anything for 7 hours he weighs more. Yesterday morning he weighed 261.4, last night 259.6, this morning 260.2. Yes, the body fluctuates in weight, but how does it weigh less after adding weight?
Have him weigh right before bed. Nothing to drink afterward. (I actually thought you had said that earlier but I must have misread.) And then have him weigh again in the morning, immediately after peeing, no drinking anything. No clothes either time. I can't believe that he would weigh more, the 2nd time.0 -
fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »Hubby weighs in the morning after peeing and #2. He weighs in the evening after supper, so he's got at least 3 meals in him and 1L of water. He ate 2 McGriddles, 2 Burger King original chicken sammiches, probably a PB cookie from Tim's (he didn't say but he usually has something while waiting for his ride home), supper (similar to what I had if you want to snoop), 8 wasabi ranch snapeas, 8 chocolate almonds, half a bag of low sodium potato chips (about 170 g, the bag is 255 g), and 17 arrowroot cookies yesterday. He may have eaten more after I went to sleep.
It seems strange to him that he can eat/drink several pounds of food and weigh less, while having not consumed anything for 7 hours he weighs more. Yesterday morning he weighed 261.4, last night 259.6, this morning 260.2. Yes, the body fluctuates in weight, but how does it weigh less after adding weight?
Have him weigh right before bed. Nothing to drink afterward. (I actually thought you had said that earlier but I must have misread.) And then have him weigh again in the morning, immediately after peeing, no drinking anything. No clothes either time. I can't believe that he would weigh more, the 2nd time.
It certainly can happen.0 -
Mine is like that too. It's primarily because I eat the 95% of daily calories in the evenings. So by morning, I am heavier because of the undigested food. However, since I fast most of the day, my body has had time to digest some of the food as well as use some of the stored up glycogen from the night before.
So, I easily weigh less at 4 pm than I did at 8 am the same morning.
I think meal timing could be a factor for sure. I know it is for me.4 -
I weigh the least at mid-morning, assuming I haven't already eaten breakfast.0
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fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »Hubby weighs in the morning after peeing and #2. He weighs in the evening after supper, so he's got at least 3 meals in him and 1L of water. He ate 2 McGriddles, 2 Burger King original chicken sammiches, probably a PB cookie from Tim's (he didn't say but he usually has something while waiting for his ride home), supper (similar to what I had if you want to snoop), 8 wasabi ranch snapeas, 8 chocolate almonds, half a bag of low sodium potato chips (about 170 g, the bag is 255 g), and 17 arrowroot cookies yesterday. He may have eaten more after I went to sleep.
It seems strange to him that he can eat/drink several pounds of food and weigh less, while having not consumed anything for 7 hours he weighs more. Yesterday morning he weighed 261.4, last night 259.6, this morning 260.2. Yes, the body fluctuates in weight, but how does it weigh less after adding weight?
Have him weigh right before bed. Nothing to drink afterward. (I actually thought you had said that earlier but I must have misread.) And then have him weigh again in the morning, immediately after peeing, no drinking anything. No clothes either time. I can't believe that he would weigh more, the 2nd time.
I can suggest it, but he doesn't go to sleep when I do and I'm not staying up until 2am to monitor his eating and drinking.1 -
fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »I weight my lowest in the afternoon/evening just before dinner. First thing in the morning, even after using the bathroom, I am always 2-4lb heavier than say 3pm. I eat my largest meal at dinner so for me it makes sense.
Does your husband enjoy large dinners?
That's not what the OP is saying, unless I am misunderstanding. The husband is weighing at night, before bed, and then in the morning, he weighs more than he did at bedtime.
**edit...ok I misread. He is weighing sometime the evening before, but not at bedtime.
Point was that some people weigh less later in the day and meal timing can be a factor. Apologies if that was unclear.0 -
stanmann571 wrote: »fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »Hubby weighs in the morning after peeing and #2. He weighs in the evening after supper, so he's got at least 3 meals in him and 1L of water. He ate 2 McGriddles, 2 Burger King original chicken sammiches, probably a PB cookie from Tim's (he didn't say but he usually has something while waiting for his ride home), supper (similar to what I had if you want to snoop), 8 wasabi ranch snapeas, 8 chocolate almonds, half a bag of low sodium potato chips (about 170 g, the bag is 255 g), and 17 arrowroot cookies yesterday. He may have eaten more after I went to sleep.
It seems strange to him that he can eat/drink several pounds of food and weigh less, while having not consumed anything for 7 hours he weighs more. Yesterday morning he weighed 261.4, last night 259.6, this morning 260.2. Yes, the body fluctuates in weight, but how does it weigh less after adding weight?
Have him weigh right before bed. Nothing to drink afterward. (I actually thought you had said that earlier but I must have misread.) And then have him weigh again in the morning, immediately after peeing, no drinking anything. No clothes either time. I can't believe that he would weigh more, the 2nd time.
It certainly can happen.
How? If he consumes NOTHING between weigh-ins, you are saying that he could gain? Nonsense.0 -
fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »Hubby weighs in the morning after peeing and #2. He weighs in the evening after supper, so he's got at least 3 meals in him and 1L of water. He ate 2 McGriddles, 2 Burger King original chicken sammiches, probably a PB cookie from Tim's (he didn't say but he usually has something while waiting for his ride home), supper (similar to what I had if you want to snoop), 8 wasabi ranch snapeas, 8 chocolate almonds, half a bag of low sodium potato chips (about 170 g, the bag is 255 g), and 17 arrowroot cookies yesterday. He may have eaten more after I went to sleep.
It seems strange to him that he can eat/drink several pounds of food and weigh less, while having not consumed anything for 7 hours he weighs more. Yesterday morning he weighed 261.4, last night 259.6, this morning 260.2. Yes, the body fluctuates in weight, but how does it weigh less after adding weight?
Have him weigh right before bed. Nothing to drink afterward. (I actually thought you had said that earlier but I must have misread.) And then have him weigh again in the morning, immediately after peeing, no drinking anything. No clothes either time. I can't believe that he would weigh more, the 2nd time.
I can suggest it, but he doesn't go to sleep when I do and I'm not staying up until 2am to monitor his eating and drinking.
Then you actually have no idea what he is doing. Pointless thread, actually.0 -
You guys can choose not to comment.... No need to be snarky.
I'm guessing he's sneaking food at night.0 -
My thoughts are bowel movement or sweating out water after first weigh in.1
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fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »stanmann571 wrote: »fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »Hubby weighs in the morning after peeing and #2. He weighs in the evening after supper, so he's got at least 3 meals in him and 1L of water. He ate 2 McGriddles, 2 Burger King original chicken sammiches, probably a PB cookie from Tim's (he didn't say but he usually has something while waiting for his ride home), supper (similar to what I had if you want to snoop), 8 wasabi ranch snapeas, 8 chocolate almonds, half a bag of low sodium potato chips (about 170 g, the bag is 255 g), and 17 arrowroot cookies yesterday. He may have eaten more after I went to sleep.
It seems strange to him that he can eat/drink several pounds of food and weigh less, while having not consumed anything for 7 hours he weighs more. Yesterday morning he weighed 261.4, last night 259.6, this morning 260.2. Yes, the body fluctuates in weight, but how does it weigh less after adding weight?
Have him weigh right before bed. Nothing to drink afterward. (I actually thought you had said that earlier but I must have misread.) And then have him weigh again in the morning, immediately after peeing, no drinking anything. No clothes either time. I can't believe that he would weigh more, the 2nd time.
It certainly can happen.
How? If he consumes NOTHING between weigh-ins, you are saying that he could gain? Nonsense.
Happens to me. And always has. I have tracked my weight for over 25 years and weigh my heaviest in the morning after going to bathroom.
I still weigh in then as I find that the most consistent.
I'm at my lightest around 2 hours after waking up. When I've been to the bathroom 2-3 times.
No mystery, it's just water my body has held on to over night.1
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