weigh yourself early in the morning?

ruffalicious

is is true that you can get your accurate weight if you weigh yourself early in the morning right after you wake up?

Helloitsdan

And after using the bathroom....yep!

Thats when I do it!

Once a month!

peachNpunkin

Yep, right after you use the bathroom, before you eat, drink, or shower. It's considered your dry weight.

iuew

i weigh first thing in the morning most days.

BarbWhite09

You should ALWAYS weigh yourself in the morning...! Kind of an obvious thing...

ruffalicious

i see! so whatever weight we get on whatever time of the day is inaccurate??

Tempe729

Same here.

atjays

Yep, right after you use the bathroom, before you eat, drink, or shower. It's considered your dry weight.

Basically this, after the morning trip to the bathroom is theoretically when you should weigh the least, having had the longest period of time during sleeping to process everything.

If you want to see why, weigh yourself after each meal, after #2 and just random other times one day and you'll see how much you fluctuate in 24 hours, if you were good that day, you should be about back to what you started at the next morning, all things considered maybe a bit less

BarbWhite09

i see! so whatever weight we get on whatever time of the day is inaccurate??

If you weigh at night it will give you a way higher weight than it would first thing in the AM. If I weigh myself at night I'm normally up 4ish lbs from what I am in the morning

ruffalicious

Yep, right after you use the bathroom, before you eat, drink, or shower. It's considered your dry weight.

Basically this, after the morning trip to the bathroom is theoretically when you should weigh the least, having had the longest period of time during sleeping to process everything.

If you want to see why, weigh yourself after each meal, after #2 and just random other times one day and you'll see how much you fluctuate in 24 hours, if you were good that day, you should be about back to what you started at the next morning, all
things considered maybe a bit less

yep i asked because i tried randomly weighing myself and i got 3 different result 5lbs higher at the most!

ruffalicious

i see! so whatever weight we get on whatever time of the day is inaccurate??

If you weigh at night it will give you a way higher weight than it would first thing in the AM. If I weigh myself at night I'm normally up 4ish lbs from what I am in the morning

cool, i am going to weigh myself every morning starting tomorrow to get the best result. i usually weigh myself just anytime i want to..

Dexy_

After you wake up & use the bathroom. Before shower or any food/drink. When you eat & drink it will make you temporarily heavier due to the weight of the food in your stomach.

sarahness

on the weekends I weigh myself when I get up in the morning after I go to the bathroom. Usually then I crawl back in bed for a couple hours. Well when I get up and weigh myself AGAIN I am usually less a couple hours later after I wake up. Its so weird!

mabug01

I don't know if it's truer, but it definitely is the lowest weight of the day.

premiumchilenita

I also find that if I have had a horrible night sleep i.e. 4hrs, I weigh a lot more than if I weigh myself when I have a decent sleep. Especially if I've had a heavy meal the day before. It's like I haven't given my body enough time to regenerate for the next day

shakybabe

I don't always have BM first thing in morning when go to bathroom though only a wee, but I do weigh after that naked. If I haven't been for a few days I might take a pound off.

I got on today and put 4lbs on in 2 days! :noway: there's no way I've eaten 14,000 extra calories in the last 2 days, but the choc cravings and back pain tells me my TOTM must be coming earlier than expected... damn menopause! :embarassed:

SteveTries

i see! so whatever weight we get on whatever time of the day is inaccurate??

Absolutely not.

It's always accurate. What you weigh is what you weigh.

For the comparative purposes of measuring weight loss you always want to measure under the same circumstances. E.g on rising, after toilet, on the same day of your weekly weight loss routine. This eliminates most variance.

creative1981

I always do it when I first wake up (after using the loo!) because that's when it seems to be at its lowest

stephaniethomas80

if you are tracking weight loss it is important to weigh yourself the same time of the day each time you do it

roguex_1979

Always weight yourself on the same scales, at the same time of the day. I also make sure I always put my scales in the same place on the floor of my bathroom (just a little OCD there).

I have also found that Wednesday is my 'light' day.

ericgAU

I saw a personal trainer for 3 months very early each morning. Before seeing her, I would do my normal toilet trip then do a fairly intense work out. She would then weight me. So if you do your exercise in the morning, I would wait till after your workout to weight yourself.

iNkedFiTmama

that is the only time i'll weigh myself.