Weight Gain Overnight

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  • 6502programmer
    6502programmer Posts: 515 Member
    Occam's Razor: variation in foot and scale placement is to blame, and if you weighed three times in three scale locations while stepping off between, your average would drop. This is why stats nerds do rolling averages, step off and back on until they get a consistent read, etc.
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  • cafeaulait7
    cafeaulait7 Posts: 2,459 Member
    There is a margin of error on every scale, though :) You'd have to know the margin of error for yours, and I'm betting it'll cover most of that overnight fluctuation.

    That's why me losing a half lb a week was an enormous pain to try to figure out! That's within my scale's margin of error, not to mention all the usual water or waste, etc, factors that can mask a half lb difference. It was an easier way to lose since I can be patient, but very confusing.
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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited October 2015
    This is not a scientific experiment, it's just a little obsessive

    Rather than looking in closer you should be panning out and looking at those daily weights over a decent time span ...say 3 months minimum

    Luckily there are sites and apps that do it for you

    Trendweight.com
    Libra
    Happy Scale

    Then you can overlay charts like

    Calorie intake
    Sodium intake
    Menstrual cycle
    Exercise and activity
    Barometric pressure
    Moon cycle
    Level of unicorn poop in the farmers field
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    It can change over night in many, many ways.
    You sweated more or less.
    You had more or less brain activity.
    Your muscles used more or less water to recover themselves.
    Your digestive system used more or less water to process your food.

    You really are never going to know the answer as to why as the answer will always change.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYMNPP2ZR1U
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