Heavier AFTER shower??!!

nortiekeeks

Okay, so I weighed myself this morning. It was right after I came out of the shower. The scale showed a gain (gasp) of FIVE pounds (gasp, gasp!!). ((I must also add here that I weigh-in almost daily, and up until today I was losing - another 1.3 pounds to be exact))

Now, this might be the most ridiculous question EVER, buuuuut, does your body absorb water in the shower, to the point of reflecting a higher number on the scale if you get on it directly after said shower??

All I know is a 5 pound gain is CRAZINESS. Especially since I have been so good so far - same as last week, when I had a loss, so, I am left to wonder WTF??

Really hoping this gain was just "water weight"... ;P

meowow

is your hair dry when you weigh yourself? My hair is miles long, ha, so when it's wet, I find the scale reads a much larger number than when it's dry. Scale is a funny thing.

beccarockslife

wet hair?

I can gain and lose 5lbs in a day, it's normal for me to gain 6 if I eat loads of salt. I'm like a salt sponge.

dls06

I don't think you would gain 5 lbs. But weigh yourself again tomorrow before and after the shower.

MinnieInMaine

LOL! Now that's a whole new spin on water weight!! Not sure if your body absorbs water but your hair sure will. How about tomorrow you conduct an experiment - weigh yourself before the shower and then after, then you'll know for sure.

Either way, if you've really been good, I'm sure the 5 pounds really is water weight - from working out hard or eating too much sodium or TOM.

ladybg81

Did you have a towel on your head or wrapped around your body. That really does not makes sense at all.

RayvinWinters

For a month I weighed myself right before a shower and again right after, just to see the difference, and I was always heaver by 1 - 2 kg (translates to 2 - 5 lbs) I also have fairy long hair, and think this is what causes it. Don't know about you, but my hair feels heaver when it is wet.

There are a lot of things that can make your weight fluctuate, that is why some people warn about over weighing yourself.

ibbray04

You didn't gain 5 lbs in one day.

Larius

Very moist air can effect the accuracy of scales. I'm guessing your scale is in the same bathroom you're showering in. Try leaving it in another room on a hard flat surface.

The wet hair and towel idea is a good one too.

DiabeticAlien

You didn't gain 5 lbs in one day.

You can gain 5 lbs in one day. I highly doubt you can gain 5 lbs from taking a shower tho. Although there have been some good points here. Wet hair, towel on head, towel around body...all potential weight.

kapeluza

Well you know, you are soaked in *water*! Water has mass.

kapeluza

You didn't gain 5 lbs in one day.

UM yes you can!!!

This is from my blog: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/kapeluza

"Aunt Flo, Oh How I Hate Thee.....

Don't you wish that some days you were a man? I know that during specific times of the month when our grumpy Aunt Flo decides to make an appearance in our lives, that is when I wish I were a man. I mean come on now, men have it easy. I think the hardest thing they have to deal with through the weight loss journey is the manbooblars.

Ok, now that I got that off my chest, ever since I switched scales I started weighing myself twice a day. At first it was more curiosity than anything. Amazing how in the morning you weighed a # and BAM in the evening you could weigh 3-4lbs heavier. I’ll even go to the extreme and be a little gross and tell you how stunned I was after an explosion in the bathroom to see a 1-2lbs difference on the scale. Anyways, I started writing down and keeping track of every weigh in I did, every single day. I have found it extremely helpful to be honest. I don’t write down every single time I weigh myself but rather I record the morning reading.

How can this possibly be healthy for someone who is trying to lose weight? Well, this is how it has helped me….

For example, last week on Thursday 8-25-11 I weighed in at 166lbs (which would have given me a +2lb loss for that week) but on my official weigh in day, Friday 8-26-11, BAM, I weighed 170lbs!!! TOM was around the corner so I knew what the culprit was. So far, I've been juggling between 169bs and 170lbs since Friday. TOM is visiting so it is reflecting on the scale. Had I weighed in only once a week and saw a 4lb weight gained, yeah, I would freaked the freak out!!!

Break down:

8/25/11 - 166lbs

8/26/11 - 170.0lbs KAPOW!!

8/27/11 - 169.2lbs

8/28/11 - 170lbs

8/29/11 - 170.4lbs

8/30/11 - 167.4lbs

To compare results and ensure nothing else was going on, I went back to my records from one month ago and surely enough I saw weight gain on the days prior to and during TOM. So, I feel a little better about that 4lb gain which can easily be contributed to water retention or just symptoms associated with Aunt Freaking Flo.

So, today, 8-30-11 is my day 4 of Aunt Flo kicking my *kitten* and this will probably be my last day of TOM. Surely enough when I got on the scale this morning it was down to 167lbs from being 170lbs all weekend. I was feeling really bloated and I still feel a little bloated so yeah, I hope to see good numbers come tomorrow or next day when Aunt Flo has packed up her sh#t and left the house. I hope to see that 166lbs come Wednesday or Thursday!



This has been a message from your friendly neighborhood honey badger…..



Stay thirsty my friends…… for H20 of course!!







(if you don't know why I call myself a honey badger then clicky here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg)"

meowow

These are all great ideas. Weight can fluctuate throughout the day for me from anywhere between 3-5 pounds. I pay more attention to measurements! The scale can be really discouraging.

nortiekeeks

is your hair dry when you weigh yourself? My hair is miles long, ha, so when it's wet, I find the scale reads a much larger number than when it's dry. Scale is a funny thing.

Actually it was wet, and I have a LOT of hair... I also had it wrapped up in a towel?? Hmmm...

nortiekeeks

I DID have my hair up in a towel, which I didn't even think about until I saw some of you mention it, so maybe the towel itself was a good part of the "gain". It IS a super fluffy towel you know!! LOL.

Anyway, I will weigh-in again tomorrow morning, PRE-shower, and see what happens...

THANKS for all the replies, EVERYONE!!!!!

DWilbanks

A whole new way to view the term "water weight". Ewwww right now I' m picturing sweaty people refusing to take a shower or bath because of weight gain...lol Deodorant sales will sky rocket *hopefully) LOL

calibri

My hair isn't very long and adds a pound and a half when it's wet. Just wearing jeans adds another pound and a half. A towel is probably the same as jeans, if not a little more due to dampness.

boonikki29

The same thing just happened to me...that's how I came across this post, looking for answers! I weighed myself before I got in the shower and gained 4.2 lbs upon getting out, just 15 min. later. I thought it was the wet hair so I dried it and dried off thoroughly and that only accounted for .9lbs. I researched the body absorbing water and everything I've read says that a hot shower actually causes a slight weight loss. I have a water softener and am now researching the effects of this on the body but haven't found anything credible yet. I've done the 5lb gain before during that time of the month but this was just random and a 15 min. difference.

Spinalcord12

Best time to weigh yourself is when you wake up each morning.
Before you eat or drink anything and preferably after a morning pee and poop.

chrisdavey

A whole new way to view the term "water weight". Ewwww right now I' m picturing sweaty people refusing to take a shower or bath because of weight gain...lol Deodorant sales will sky rocket *hopefully) LOL

weighing in for a comp on Friday. Will be straight from sauna to weigh in. Stinky style

ibleedunionblue

If your scales says you weigh 5 lbs more after taking a shower, and you havent eaten or drank anything, your scales need replaced.