Weigh MORE in the morning?

Probably caused by the temperature of your house. Scale might show a different reading when it is at a different temperature.

Could it be that at night you are full of food and water from the day, and while you sleep your body metabolizes it, so you would weigh less in the morning? You could also just be salt sensitive. I can flucuate 5 pounds in a day just because of salt.

Oh, and I'm a scale nut too

Hi again, I just found this article, it's not by a professional, but the information cited in here is. So here's the info and the study that was done.

•" Weigh yourself. Stepping on the scale first thing (after the bathroom, before breakfast, wearing little to nothing) gives you the most accurate read on your weight, which can fluctuate by up to three pounds during the day! It's a good idea to weigh in daily: A study from Brown University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill showed that 61 percent of people who did so maintained their weight within five pounds over time (compared with 32 percent who weighed in less often), mainly because it helped them catch weight gain early."

I got it from: http://women.webmd.com/features/the-best-time-of-the-day?page=2

I don't know if it helps, but I always like to research and try to find info from professionals or from studies.

Are you a night time eater? I know if I eat before bedtime I tend to weigh more right when I wake up then I do later in the morning...but when I don't, I weigh less. I'm not 100% positive there is something to my night time eating theory, it's just something I've noticed for myself.

I too am also obsessed with the scale. I weigh myself in the morning....after I work out and before I go to bed....Sometimes more just to see the numbers. Crazy I know!!! I have always been that way and I cant imagine only weighing myself once a week!!! I record my morning numbers because honestly they are almost a pound lighter than when i go to bed. I also make sure to weigh myself the same way. like in a sports bra and shorts....Because honestly a t-shirt and jeans can add like a pound!!! So when you weigh yourself makesure its the same outfit or like similar always in jeans and a t or naked or however you wanna do it ,....but i wonder why yours is the complete opposite than me... mmmm

I've tried that but I just can't stay away that long! If I get on the scale and it's more then I know to watch what I eat that day. No I don't starve myself because the scale says I gained. I just think about what I'm eating a little more than I would normally and try to choose healthier options. I think that if weighing daily and maybe more than once a day helps me to think about what I'm eating then it's got to be a positive thing. At least for me.
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I totally agree with you! I am on the several scale whenever I amin the bathroom as a reminder of what I've accomplshed and how I am doing......starvng myself has never been an ooption as a result i a heavy weigh in.....but like you it is a reminder to make good choices!! Good luck! I wish I had an answer for weighing more in the morning but I have no idea!

There is also the possability that you may be getting up in the middle of the night and drinking water and you don't remember it because your still half asleep also make sure your scale is on a hard serface and not on carpet and that you are centered on the scale hope this helps

Hm, do you eat late at night? I've never been a nighttime eater, and I've always found I weigh the least in the mornings, before breakfast and after going to the bathroom. I always have the feeling of waking up skinny, probably because I spend hours awake during nighttime, well after dinner, without eating anything, and then sleeping adds +8 hours to my body not eating.

I am not sure why you weigh more in the morning... how much weight are we talking about here? More than 1 lb?

Normally it's about a pound and a half difference between the first morning weigh in and the second morning weigh in. I guess it could be my scale. Maybe I need to change the battery? I never thought of that.

Thats what I was thinking. I know my battery needs to be changed, I can get on it several times in a matter of minutes and the number changes drastically, like 2-3 lbs. Every once in while I will do that to check it if I am concerned about the batteries.

Hey, LeeAnn

I am having the fricking same problem! I weigh more in the morning but less around noon.. Pisses me off.. And I too also weigh myself daily.. It keeps me on track and motivates me that much more to keep going.. I guess it's just a habit.. So since I have been having this problem, I only have a protein shake for breakfast then I go workout.. When I come home, I pee, shower then weigh.. I have a trainer and we weigh in once a month.. I hate doing it because I know if I wait till later I will weigh less.. It depresses me as well cause I weigh more in the am and I train at 5:30 in the morning.. I have been looking for an answer to this mystery for months and have yet to find it:.. So, when I do, I will let you know.. Keep doing what you're doing.. Everybody is different and everyone will have an opinion but you do you..

I'll have to try this... though I have weighed both before and after bathroom and after 2 hours exercise and been the same weight.. I don't know if its water retention I do have monthlies.. I'll have to try it when they end.

Usually on my regular digital scales (gives just one weight) I'm lighter in morning than at night but on the body fat scales I'm heavier first thing than at night and sometimes can be up to a stone difference between them, which I can't understand.

I thought body fat scales might give a lighter reading cos its not including water weight, but surely can't be carrying about stone of water?... and other digital scales only fluctuate by 1 lb in day if I haven't eaten carbs. For example on digital scales this morning I was 11st 5, on the body fat scales just now I got 10st 2, 10st 8, 10st 3, 10st 4... usually on digital scales I get the same number if I get on and off a few times in a row.. so they are the ones I go by.

I don't have an answer for this... I was just trying to look it up myself, lol. But I just wanted to say that I have the same thing happen to me. If I weigh right when I get out of bed--and I also weigh daily--I weigh anywhere from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 lbs more than if I weigh myself the same way a few hours later. This is consistent, and the only thing that may have changed is going pee, and sometimes not even that. That certainly isn't responsible for that type of weight loss! My last scale broke only a week or two ago and I still have this so I doubt it is your battery. And I have a wood floor, not carpet, and my scale is completely level.

The only thing I can think of--besides what some people have mentioned about maybe not having fully digested food from the night before (which even then, is curious, because it is still in your body--but maybe the food weighs more in you before it has been fully digested? That much weight difference seems unlikely, but I honestly don't know) is I wonder about muscle tone. When you sleep your muscles become relaxed, and you become heavy. Any person who has ever had their partner fall asleep on them, or carried a sleeping child, can testify to the fact that dead weight of a sleeping person is A LOT heavier than trying to lift them when they are fully awake and alert, and it isn't their actual weight that has changed. So maybe when you first wake up your body is kind of like that, not fully out of that zone, and your muscles aren't functioning as well because you are still slightly sleepy and relaxed, than they are a couple of hours later when you are fully alert and moving around.

Not sure how that works, but it's the only other reason I can think of for this. And I don't know about for others, but for me it is consistently this way.

I know exactly how you feel about having to know the numbers. For me it's like the number on the scale is what determins how big I am. I know that's not true at all but it's just how my thought process works. I'm trying really hard to fix that though.

I weigh more in the morning too!! I still haven't figured out why.