Weighing In At Night

Heres an article I found on weighing yourself in the morning. I had always heard to weigh yourself in the morning because it was the most uninfluenced and accurate time of day..... hope this helps.........



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Throughout the day as you eat, drink, breathe, sweat, and use the restroom your weight varies. In fact, from one day to the next your weight can vary by as much as 13 1/2 pounds.

That is why most people recommend that you don't weigh yourself every day. It is emotionally draining to look at the scale one day and see that you've lost 3 pounds, only to look at it the next day to see that you've gained 5 pounds. Most people, including me, can't take that kind of emotional abuse.

That was the genius of John Walker's The Hacker's Diet. He knew that those random variations are just noise. To really understand how you are doing on a diet you need to filter out that noise. And there are plenty of tools in the mathematical toolbox to filter out such noise. After a bit of trial and error John Walker settled on using an exponentially smoothed moving average. And that is what the PhysicsDiet.com uses too.

But there is one more way that we can add additional random noise to the system. Since we never eat the same thing at the same time of day. And we never do exactly the same activities at the same time every day. Our weight varies during the day in unpredictable ways. This is why I recommend that you weigh yourself every morning after using the restroom, but before eating or drinking anything. In my experience, this is the one time of day that all of the factors that affect your weight are most consistent.

Of course you aren't required to weigh yourself at the same time every day. The moving average that the PhysicsDiet.com uses will smooth out the hour to hour variations the same way it smoothes out the day to day variations. But if you do keep your time of weightings consistent that is that much less random noise to worry about.

NEVER weigh at night! Are you crazy girl!

I can weigh anywhere from 2 - 4 lbs more at night, depending on my water consumption and what foods I ate!

Just don't do it!!!

Day/Night, who cares? Wasn't there a physicist that proved that the act of observation influences the results of observation. Granted, he was dealing with subatomic particles, but why pay such close attention to the scale that you have to weigh yourself only in certain precise circumstances? We're not doing a scientific experiment, we're trying to look and feel better, lose fat, be healthier, etc.

I've watched my weight jump all over the place seemingly illogically as I weigh myself. But it isn't the individual number, it's the trend that counts. So if you are really tracking calories accurately and faithfully, and not cheating, staying within goals, you can't hep but be on the right trend, and ultimately there will come a day when you reach the objective you want. For me, that isn't a number. It's fitting back into my clothes, it's having more endurance in sports, it's not feeling fat.

So I'm going to weigh myself once a week, but I'm not going to pay a lot of attention if the number is surprising. I know exactly what I'm taking in each day, and I know that over time I'll trend in the right direction. Frankly, I would be happy at my present weight if it were solid muscle rather than flab.

Anyway, that's my two cents worth. I think the only details worth obsessing about are the caloric and nutritive intake on a daily basis. If that's under control, the rest has to follow. You can't burn 2400 calories and take in 1500 without turning to internal stores of energy, so if you just keep your eye on that process, you can forget about the scale altogether.



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I really can't stand the scale. .Makes me so sick. My Weight and clothes size doesnt match. Im 168 lbs with a waist of 27 inches and clothes size in jeans some 7 8's and I even have a a size 4 dress that I wore last year and I was at least 175 then. I dont know what it is. They say muscle is heavier than fat. I wish the scale would at least give me a break. So thats why me and the scale dont get along.

Steph

It doesn't matter if you weigh yourself in the morning or at night, as long as you are consistant.

Don't night weigh after being a morning weigh-er. You will see a huge difference.

I weigh in every day after my workout, 'round 3:30p. While I may weigh more at 3:30p than at 6am, I consistantly measure my weight at 3:30p. This way my weight loss shown is true weight loss and not daily fluctuation (for the most part).

You know you did good during the day so don't let the scale tell you otherwise! you might have been retaining water -or - added some much needed muscle- or - you may have just been building up a good poop! ( i know gross but true) - so put the scale out of sight for a few days and focus on something else.