When is the best time to weigh yourself?

Valover
Valover Posts: 5 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I just weighed myself and I had lost 4 pounds since the following night. Obviously shouldn't weigh myself at night, but is the morning the best time?

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  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,428 MFP Moderator
    I just weighed myself and I had lost 4 pounds since the following night. Obviously shouldn't weigh myself at night, but is the morning the best time?
    It doesn't matter as long as you are consistent with. My body fluctuates 10 lbs a day based on food intake and water weight.
  • mommahix
    mommahix Posts: 189 Member
    I think as long as it is the same time everytime it is fine...I choose to weigh myself in the morning right after I get up
  • RhonndaJ
    RhonndaJ Posts: 1,615 Member
    I just weighed myself and I had lost 4 pounds since the following night. Obviously shouldn't weigh myself at night, but is the morning the best time?
    It doesn't matter as long as you are consistent with. My body fluctuates 10 lbs a day based on food intake and water weight.

    this.
  • VeganZombie13
    VeganZombie13 Posts: 297
    I weigh in the morning on Friday's after my shower..Nude :blushing:
  • BalenciaLynn
    BalenciaLynn Posts: 411 Member
    i weigh myself in the morning after i use the washroom and once im stripped down
  • tlacox1
    tlacox1 Posts: 373 Member
    I think as long as it is the same time everytime it is fine...I choose to weigh myself in the morning right after I get up

    I weigh in the morning as well before I put anything in my mouth that makes the numbers change. LOL! Of course, the key is that you HAVE to weigh at the same time for consistency and try to have the same type of clothes on each time. If you weigh with a hoodie on and then next time no hoodie, did you really lose weight or was the hoodie just heavy?
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    I just weighed myself and I had lost 4 pounds since the following night. Obviously shouldn't weigh myself at night, but is the morning the best time?
    It doesn't matter as long as you are consistent with. My body fluctuates 10 lbs a day based on food intake and water weight.

    this.

    ^^ This.
  • athenaheim
    athenaheim Posts: 496 Member
    Best time is first thing in the morning after you use the restroom before you shower or eat anything.
  • drmerc
    drmerc Posts: 2,603 Member
    1:34pm
  • TrishB69
    TrishB69 Posts: 16 Member
    I have heard that morning is best. I guess as long as you stay consistent with your timing, you should be okay. I weigh myself first thing in the morning before eating, as soon as I get up.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Same time and under the same conditions. I do my weight in every Friday morning around 6:00AM after using the facilities and before my shower and before I eat or drink anything.

    Fluxuations like you're seeing are most likely due to water
  • CM9178
    CM9178 Posts: 1,251 Member
    Weigh yourself once a week, the same day every week and around the same time.
    I personally prefer to weigh myself before I've eaten or drank anything, but that's just me.

    Your weight will fluctuate by quite a bit over the course of a day and over the course of a week. (I'm always at LEAST 3 pounds heavier at night, and heavier in the beginning of the week.) Your true weight loss for the week will show on that same day if you are consistent with your weigh ins.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    1:34pm

    QFMFT

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