Weight for calculating calories

SaintGiff

This is an odd and probably stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway. What weight do you guys use for calculating your calories? I don't mean how much do you weigh. Easier to illustrate with an example. I normally weigh myself twice per day. No, I'm not obsessed. The scale is there in the morning so I will usually just jump on when I get out of bed. Then, when I'm at the gym around midnight I will weigh myself again so I can put the most accurate weight into the treadmill to calculate calorie burn. I don't know about y'all, but for me the difference in these two weights is always between 9 and 15 pounds. Yesterday, for example, I weighed 199.4 in the morning. When I got to the gym last night I weighed in at 208. And it's not a difference in scales, either. I've tested that by weighing myself on the bathroom scale before going to the gym. They are with a quarter pound of one another. If someone asks how much I weigh, I tell them I weigh whatever my last gym weight was, so today I would say 208. That is also the number I use to calculate my calories. But now I'm wondering if I should be using the 199.0 ( this morning ) rather than the 208. Which do you use?

Pearsquared

It doesn't matter, as long as you pick and stick with ONE time as the official weigh-in. You need to be able to track a consistent weight change and know that it's not from these extraneous reasons like what you ate and the time of day.

Followingsea

If you typically average a 12 lb daily variation, why not split the difference and call your weight your morning weight + 6 lbs?

idontcarroll

You do sound a little obsessed. Use your morning weight and don't make this more difficult.

tmpecus78

Whether or not you want to admit it, weighing yourself twice per day or even once every day is obsessive.


Get up in the morning, pee and weigh yourself. Do this once per week.

elkahallick

Whether or not you want to admit it, weighing yourself twice per day or even once every day is obsessive.


Get up in the morning, pee and weigh yourself. Do this once per week.

^^^^^^^ Exactly +1 rep

MinnieInMaine

Use the morning weight. Your evening weight basically includes whatever food and water and the waste products of those things is in your system and whatever clothes you're wearing in the evening vs what you wear in the morning (if anything).