Gaining weight without injesting anything?

jo_nz

Did you shower in between?
If I shower and wash my hair, I can "gain" a noticeable amount on the scale.

BarbaraHelen2013

jo_nz wrote: »

Did you shower in between?
If I shower and wash my hair, I can "gain" a noticeable amount on the scale.

Sure, if you weigh yourself whilst your hair is still wet! Depending on how much hair you have, how thick it is etc it’s like wetting a towel and weighing it!

But, unless you’ve been drinking your shower water, once your hair is dry there is no physical reason why you’d weigh more!

Emmapatterson1729

Women can fluctuate as much as 10-15 lbs a day. Depending on many factors.

And yes you can gain water weight without drinking water. If your body retains sodium, female hormones, even allergies can cause slight swelling while sleeping. There are many different reasons someone could fluctuate before eating or drinking.

Considering I woke one morning and didn't recognize my own body from water retention weight gain (rushed to hospital, turned out to be heart failure). My case is extreme and rare, but to say one cannot retain water before consuming water is incorrect.

3011sophie

Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »

Women can fluctuate as much as 10-15 lbs a day. Depending on many factors.

And yes you can gain water weight without drinking water. If your body retains sodium, female hormones, even allergies can cause slight swelling while sleeping. There are many different reasons someone could fluctuate before eating or drinking.

Considering I woke one morning and didn't recognize my own body from water retention weight gain (rushed to hospital, turned out to be heart failure). My case is extreme and rare, but to say one cannot retain water before consuming water is incorrect.

But where does the retained water come from? Mass cannot be generated out of nowhere...It's retained, meaning that it is kept in the body rather than being excreted as sweat or urine.

I do not doubt that you could develop severe oedema overnight enough to be unrecognisable, but that is swelling from water that was already in your body, not water that was somehow absorbed from the atmosphere or magic-ed up from nowhere.