Why do I weigh less in the morning?

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  • now_or_never13
    now_or_never13 Posts: 1,575 Member
    You weigh less in the morning simply because you are dehydrated and do not have food in your system.

    DUring the day you eat and drink throughout the day and therefore you will weigh more because there is more stuff in your system. When you sleep, you aren't eating or drinking and therefore you have less food within your system and you are getting dehydrated causing you to weigh less in the morning.

    You don't magically evaporate fat throughout the night.

    so umm.. where does the weight go assuming you dont urinate or defecate?

    Not all food you eat remains in your digestive system. It is used by your body as energy. Your body also constantly gains and loses water weight throughout the day by breathing, sweating, etc.
  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    you lose weight thru breathing believe it or not... every exhale contains molecules much like how a car loses gas thru the exhaust pipe.. people think they lose body fat thru sweating its when they breathe.


    lol so many answers here are retarded ^^ this is what actually happens.

    Was this actually posted??
    it was.. u should try reading a book or something.
  • now_or_never13
    now_or_never13 Posts: 1,575 Member
    you lose weight thru breathing believe it or not... every exhale contains molecules much like how a car loses gas thru the exhaust pipe.. people think they lose body fat thru sweating its when they breathe.


    lol so many answers here are retarded ^^ this is what actually happens.

    Was this actually posted??
    it was.. u should try reading a book or something.

    I thought this thread was to help the OP, not be rude to fellow members.
  • NaomiJFoster
    NaomiJFoster Posts: 1,450 Member
    Your body does a lot during sleep that it doesn't do while awake. Growth in children happens during sleep (not quite relevent to us now, but interesting). Healing of wounds happens durning sleep. The work of the immune system happens durning sleep.

    I'm not sure, but I've always wondered if those things burn calories. I'm sure there is something happening.
  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    you lose weight thru breathing believe it or not... every exhale contains molecules much like how a car loses gas thru the exhaust pipe.. people think they lose body fat thru sweating its when they breathe.


    lol so many answers here are retarded ^^ this is what actually happens.

    Was this actually posted??
    it was.. u should try reading a book or something.

    Excuse me?

    I assumed ur tone was facetious.. correct me if i was wrong.
  • AJinBirmingham
    AJinBirmingham Posts: 497
    It's mostly water weight (and some food) - if you didn't eat or drink anything for about 8 hours before weighing yourself at night you'd get the same result, but we don't often stay awake for 8 hours without eating or drinking anything.
  • CoraGregoryCPA
    CoraGregoryCPA Posts: 1,087 Member
    LOL... I'm like "why I don't I see this person posting?" I must have blocked him for rude, ridiculous and mean responses on other posts.

    and, No, I'm not talking about Monty.
    you lose weight thru breathing believe it or not... every exhale contains molecules much like how a car loses gas thru the exhaust pipe.. people think they lose body fat thru sweating its when they breathe.


    lol so many answers here are retarded ^^ this is what actually happens.

    Was this actually posted??
    it was.. u should try reading a book or something.

    Excuse me?

    I assumed ur tone was facetious.. correct me if i was wrong.
  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    LOL... I'm like "why I don't I see this person posting?" I must have blocked him for rude, ridiculous and mean responses on other posts.

    and, No, I'm not talking about Monty.
    you lose weight thru breathing believe it or not... every exhale contains molecules much like how a car loses gas thru the exhaust pipe.. people think they lose body fat thru sweating its when they breathe.


    lol so many answers here are retarded ^^ this is what actually happens.

    Was this actually posted??
    it was.. u should try reading a book or something.

    Excuse me?

    I assumed ur tone was facetious.. correct me if i was wrong.

    ha i was bout to say i dont even know who you are 0.o
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Bottom line, who cares...weight fluctuates day to day and throughout a given day. It's completely natural...stop stressing about it...just understand that it's natural and it's not within your control. You have water retention/release...timing of food in/food out...etc.
  • lunnay
    lunnay Posts: 65 Member
    Hi all.

    So here is another related question. Let's say you weight 60kgs at 7am when you wake up, you eat or drink nothing and at 8am you weigh more?

    Thanks
    Nick

    Assuming you're wearing the same clothes and haven't eaten/drunk anything in that hour, my guess would be the scale. ;) Scales aren't 100% accurate (the cheaper digital ones especially), and they need to be in a completely flat area to work at their best. Even in a completely flat area there may be slight variations in their readings.
  • CoraGregoryCPA
    CoraGregoryCPA Posts: 1,087 Member
    LOL.
    ha i was bout to say i dont even know who you are 0.o
  • 2013sk
    2013sk Posts: 1,318 Member
    Maybe because your belly has all your food and drink in it at night?
  • CoraGregoryCPA
    CoraGregoryCPA Posts: 1,087 Member
    Also, Monty, This is the same guy who posts random stuff in a post to get people pissed off and to get attention. I haven't blocked that many people, that's how I know which one this is. Don't fall for it or waste your time on it anymore.

    This guy does it on purpose. He will go to another forum and do it again and again and again.
    LOL.
    ha i was bout to say i dont even know who you are 0.o
  • teamAmelia
    teamAmelia Posts: 1,247 Member
    I know that this is old, but I pulled it up for something that I was looking for and this whole thing made me crack up. From the person saying that fat is released through breathing, to the mass confusion of where the phantom posts were coming from. :laugh:
    LOL... I'm like "why I don't I see this person posting?" I must have blocked him for rude, ridiculous and mean responses on other posts.

    and, No, I'm not talking about Monty.
    you lose weight thru breathing believe it or not... every exhale contains molecules much like how a car loses gas thru the exhaust pipe.. people think they lose body fat thru sweating its when they breathe.


    lol so many answers here are retarded ^^ this is what actually happens.

    Was this actually posted??
    it was.. u should try reading a book or something.

    Excuse me?

    I assumed ur tone was facetious.. correct me if i was wrong.

    ha i was bout to say i dont even know who you are 0.o
  • wtreadway0129
    wtreadway0129 Posts: 1
    It's the moon. The gravitational affects of the moon pull on the water in our bodies just like the waters in the ocean.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    dammit stupid necros.
  • nikki5711j
    nikki5711j Posts: 2
    It's the adipose!!!

    "The young Adipose would grow, collecting fat from around the body. Every night, the Adipose would then be born and leave the body. They could convert other material into fat; however, this practice was not good for their health."

    Source: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Adipose
  • Recoveringmay
    Recoveringmay Posts: 3 Member
    I watched a really interesting ted talk on this subject. It is the release of carbon dioxide through breathing as was posted.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGKLpYtZ19Q
  • Flyer69
    Flyer69 Posts: 100 Member
    Pretty well most answers are wrong, some maybe only 90%.
    We all have a BMR=Basic Metabolic Rate, mine 1836calories.
    This means the amount of calories you burn doing nothing at all, which for me is 76.5 calories per hour.
    So over 8 hours I would burn up 612 calories, which for most people (not me) is more then their daily workout.
    So then it is no surprise that you have lost weight.

    Add to that you probably had your biggest meal of the day at say 6pm, maybe 800 calories, you would after that meal generally be the heaviest although it takes a little time to absorb all calories, which is why in the evening you generally are the heaviest.

    I never understood my body and how it worked and got more scietific and tracked it more
    I would weigh myself first thing in the morning, after gym and before I went to bed, the reason as at those 3 times I would be naked and in the bathroom.

    here is an example of last week in kg.
    Weight 7am Aft gym 10pm
    Thu 7 81.2 80.1 80.9
    Fri 8 80.5 79.4 80.2
    Sat 9 80.5 81.2
    Sun 10 80.9 81.7
    Mon 11 81.2 80.3 81.2
    Tue 12 80.8 79.9 81.1
    Wed 13 80.5 79.5 80.7
    Thu 14 80.2 79.2
  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
    It's the adipose!!!

    "The young Adipose would grow, collecting fat from around the body. Every night, the Adipose would then be born and leave the body. They could convert other material into fat; however, this practice was not good for their health."

    Source: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Adipose

    You have just pointed me in the direction of a fabulous source of information for which I thank you... ;)
  • Flyer69
    Flyer69 Posts: 100 Member
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate
    If you have the time, my previous comments were I bit simplistic... :-)
    On the other hand it is not something to worry about as long as you way yourself the same time, may that be once a day, once a week or once a month or whatever works for you, the trick us to have the same routine.
  • nikki5711j
    nikki5711j Posts: 2
    It's the adipose!!!

    "The young Adipose would grow, collecting fat from around the body. Every night, the Adipose would then be born and leave the body. They could convert other material into fat; however, this practice was not good for their health."

    Source: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Adipose

    You have just pointed me in the direction of a fabulous source of information for which I thank you... ;)


    No problem, the tardis is always full of great information and people! (and time lords) ????
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