Weight in: clothes or naked?

ksmommy5
ksmommy5 Posts: 142 Member
edited November 15 in Motivation and Support
So it's weigh in day tomorrow. I just hopped on the scale this morning with underwear and sports bra on as I always do. Then just now I decided to hop on after my shower. I was down 2 lbs. Do clothes really make that much of a difference? I guess I update my weight now cause naked can't lie lol
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  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    The naked trick only works once.
  • ksmommy5
    ksmommy5 Posts: 142 Member
    jgnatca wrote: »
    The naked trick only works once.

    How so?
  • U2R2
    U2R2 Posts: 260 Member
    ksmommy5 wrote: »
    jgnatca wrote: »
    The naked trick only works once.

    How so?

    The first time you get credit for the lack of clothing, from then on you are comparing naked to naked.
  • ksmommy5
    ksmommy5 Posts: 142 Member
    U2R2 wrote: »
    ksmommy5 wrote: »
    jgnatca wrote: »
    The naked trick only works once.

    How so?

    The first time you get credit for the lack of clothing, from then on you are comparing naked to naked.

    So the alternative is keeping weighing in the same outfit? Then you're weighing outfit to outfit.
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  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,571 Member
    I doubt a bra and underwear weigh 2 lbs. If your shower was hot and long you could have lost some water weight.
  • bebeisfit
    bebeisfit Posts: 951 Member
    I weigh myself at the gym. I wear shoes shorts and top. Plus have a small towel with me. The key is consistency. Dont go back and forth naked one week and clothes the next.
  • demorelli
    demorelli Posts: 508 Member
    I think if the water is very warm people sweat in the shower without noticing it
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    ksmommy5 wrote: »
    So it's weigh in day tomorrow. I just hopped on the scale this morning with underwear and sports bra on as I always do. Then just now I decided to hop on after my shower. I was down 2 lbs. Do clothes really make that much of a difference? I guess I update my weight now cause naked can't lie lol

    Always naked. And I've also tried putting clothes on and taking them back off during the same weighing session, and the weight actually varies. Guess we don't realize how big a load we're carrying with the clothes we wear all day long.
  • neohdiver
    neohdiver Posts: 738 Member
    ksmommy5 wrote: »
    So it's weigh in day tomorrow. I just hopped on the scale this morning with underwear and sports bra on as I always do. Then just now I decided to hop on after my shower. I was down 2 lbs. Do clothes really make that much of a difference? I guess I update my weight now cause naked can't lie lol

    I'm actually surprised you're down at all - since your hair was likely wet & shoud have added some weight.

    (But yes - weigh naked, since otherwise you're including the weight of the clothing.)
  • distinctlybeautiful
    distinctlybeautiful Posts: 1,041 Member
    bbell1985 wrote: »
    I doubt a bra and underwear weigh 2 lbs.

    This.

    I've stepped on the scale, stepped off, stepped back on and had a pound difference. I chalk it up to the scale not an actual change in my weight in those few seconds.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    BRS11AU wrote: »
    I weigh naked first thing in the morning... right after peeing of course.

    Yep. ^^That.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Naked.

    Want to see some pics?

    :wink:
  • YinxFed
    YinxFed Posts: 1,094 Member
    Always naked - I step out of the shower and on to the scales!
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    bbell1985 wrote: »
    I doubt a bra and underwear weigh 2 lbs. If your shower was hot and long you could have lost some water weight.

    That, and if you happened to pee while in there.
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    Naked.

    Want to see some pics?

    :wink:

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  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    distinctlybeautiful wrote: »
    bbell1985 wrote: »
    I doubt a bra and underwear weigh 2 lbs.

    This.

    I've stepped on the scale, stepped off, stepped back on and had a pound difference. I chalk it up to the scale not an actual change in my weight in those few seconds.
    :laugh: yes, the scale HRM's aren't accurate, fitbits, machines at the gym, nothing is 100%, 100% of the time.
    Same with the food scales.. sometimes you turn back around and it's 2 grams different than when you just looked. :wink:
  • JohannVII
    JohannVII Posts: 11 Member
    Could be some combination of scale accuracy issues and sweat lost during the shower. Underwear isn't going to make more of a difference than the error range of most home scales (unless you have a medical-quality balance that you regularly validate against reference weights), though a full outfit can indeed weigh several pounds.

    I usually step on and off the scale a few times to make sure it is giving consistent readings. It's not as much of an issue since I got a newer, better scale, but my old one would sometimes report very different weights in immediate sequence, though it usually stabilized on a consistent value after a few times stepping on and off.

    For looking at change in weight, you want to compare like to like, as others have mentioned - weigh yourself at the same time of day wearing the same things. MyFitnessPal itself recommends weekly weighing, I suspect becasue people can get false impressions about what's going on due to regular variance in weight of several pounds over the course of a day or day-to-day (for example, a pint of water weights about a pound, so you can change your weight in a matter of minutes drinking a big glass of water without your body composition changing at all), though I like the larger data set from daily weighing, looking at the trend line as opposed to any given daily number.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited February 2017
    I've never heard of 2 Lb bra and panties. Also, the humidity from the shower could also be messing with the scale.

    Bottom line, just be consistent in what you're doing.
  • mom2tris2013
    mom2tris2013 Posts: 7 Member
    Naked right after u take a shower at the same time everyday
  • mom2tris2013
    mom2tris2013 Posts: 7 Member
    distinctlybeautiful wrote: »
    bbell1985 wrote: »
    I doubt a bra and underwear weigh 2 lbs.

    This.

    I've stepped on the scale, stepped off, stepped back on and had a pound difference. I chalk it up to the scale not an actual change in my weight in those few seconds.

    I've done that as well and my scale keeps the exact weight.
  • voldemortisreal
    voldemortisreal Posts: 101 Member
    I do both (after morning potty):

    1) with PJ's
    2) full on nekked

    I find the comparison helps with perspective -- especially when maybe the loss isn't as much as originally hoped for.

    I also weigh right before bed in PJ's...just because I'm a nerd and I find it interesting what / how weight changes (even between 8 - 9hrs!) -- helps with perspective and trending as well.
  • crackpotbaby
    crackpotbaby Posts: 1,297 Member
    BRS11AU wrote: »
    I weigh naked first thing in the morning... right after peeing of course.

    Same. And because I don't always trust the scales I usually weigh 3 times to make sure the reading is consistent. If there's a discrepancy I recalibrate the scales (as per manufacturer's instructions).

    Even then, accuracy isn't really garrunteed. I weigh daily and watch the fluctuations and the trend.

  • Pooshka2
    Pooshka2 Posts: 208 Member
    Buck naked. No clothes to skew the reading from week to week.
  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,763 Member
    I weigh on the scale at the gym, after I wash my hair. I wear the same clothes & no shoes. I go by that as far as putting it in mfp. I did buy a home scale a few months ago , It's 2 lbs off & for curiosity I weigh myself on it several times a day, it goes up to as much as 5 lbs during the day
  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,522 Member
    Most consistent seems to be morning weight post voiding. It's just one of a number of useful body metrics. I understand that people read a lot more into it than it merits.
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