Weighing yourself Question

Leejay40
Leejay40 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Have been dieting now for 3 and half years and reasonably successful in that period losing around 130 lbs , and during this journey have learnt so much about food ,nutrition and the general science of losing weight.
However even now I get freaked out with the dreaded scales !!
For instance today I woke up and as usual each Saturday morning weigh myself usually naked as well.
I then went to my Personal Trainer for an hour of Intense interval training, come home and have a hearty breakfast of Spanish omelette with some toast. Yes I treated myself to two small cookies.
So okay let's say around 2000 calories.
So why when I pop on the scales out of curiosity would I go up 6lbs on the morning??
Yes yes I know I shouldn't have got on scales eff etc, but still don't know how I can increase by that weight in a few hours .

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  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    It is not fat weight. It is food you have digested and water in your muscles from your exercise. Everyone's weight fluctuates, day in and day out.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    You ate, drank, exercised, put clothes on... Why would you not go up in weight?

    If you want to weigh more regularly, weigh every morning in the same way. Use a trending app to smooth out the natural fluctuations....don't weigh multiple times a day!

    all of that :/

    heck, my weight fluctuates up to 5 pounds any given day during the course of the day.

    i do usually weigh myself each day (first thing in morning, nude, after bathroom), but only remember what it is and log it once a week (typically saturday mornings).
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    I weighed 154.9 this morning. I had breakfast and 2 cups of coffee. Just for fun I weighed myself again. Now 158.6. My clothes, breakfast and coffee weigh 3.7 pounds.
  • SweatLikeDog
    SweatLikeDog Posts: 322 Member
    Stupid human tricks: If I want a low number on the scale in the AM l'll have an early dinner the night before. WTF effect: big steak moves the scale down the most
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    SweatLikeDog wrote: »
    Stupid human tricks: If I want a low number on the scale in the AM l'll have an early dinner the night before. WTF effect: big steak moves the scale down the most

    Maybe for you. Have a huge mixed salad with tons of vegetables and add some coffee in the morning! Boom! Get a plunger!
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    2 days ago I weighed ~155, this morning early I weighed 159. I did have a big overage day 2 days ago. Anyway, after weighing this morning I paddled my SUP ~11 miles before breakfast and I weighed a bit under 157. I didn't bother with it again after breakfast and lunch, but I was probably back up to 159, Then some heavy yard work - digging. I probably dropped back to around 157 again, then dinner would have pushed it back up - you get the picture.
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