Weigh MORE in the morning?

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  • Lynatea
    Lynatea Posts: 311 Member
    edited June 2020
    I always weigh less in the morning. First thing, after emptying bladder and in the nude. I can weigh as much as 5 lbs higher if I weigh before bed, so the morning gives me the best baseline to determine consistent, true loss.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    edited June 2020
    Lynnsgoals2020 wrote: »
    I always weigh less in the morning. First thing, after emptying bladder and in the nude. I can weigh as much as 5 lbs higher if I weigh before bed, so the morning gives me the best baseline to determine consistent, true loss.

    I am always at my lightest first thing too..
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    gahh this is an OLD thread!
  • Lynatea
    Lynatea Posts: 311 Member
    LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »
    gahh this is an OLD thread!

    Shoot, I didn't even see that, darnit!
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,930 Member
    I can think of a couple of things here:

    your scale is dodgy, not on a flat surface, has dust underneath the feet or in need of a new battery. Worth checking all those.

    Do you get dehydrated during the day and have something to drink on your bedside table? Water of course has weight. I find that if I drink very little during daytime, for example because I'm hiking all day and don't drink enough then I pee very little. Also, when I work out in the evening and don't replenish all fluids and still sweat a bit in bed then my body holds onto additional water more.

    Night snacking? Does food vanish from the kitchen?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,168 Member
    edited June 2020
    One of the things I dislike about (some) threads that are reawakened from a long-past year like 2011 is that they're often full of pretty terrible (outdated, or just plain wrong) advice.

    This is an example. There's some terrible, bad, incorrect stuff. I'm not going to belabor what and why.

    Also, just for fun: I usually weigh less in the late afternoon, in the rare cases I step on the scale then. (I put my AM weights in Libra, for consistency of conditions, anyway.)

    Also, fun fact to know: When we lose fat, approximately 80% of that weight is exhaled in the form of gases. The other roughly 20% is water. Part of that water is of course lost through urine or sweat . . . but part of the water is also exhaled in the form of invisible humidity. Guess what you do more of, in your sleep, coinciding with a long time period of no food/fluid intake? ;)

    You are breathing out your fat weight.

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