Heavier AFTER shower??!!

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Just to clarify.... You had wet hair and a towel round your head but you didn't think that would make you heavier?

    LOLing just a little bit....

    WOW!
  • sukiwabi
    sukiwabi Posts: 221 Member
    Smfh. I want my three minutes back! :grumble:
  • FearAnLoathingJ
    FearAnLoathingJ Posts: 337 Member
    Stop weighing everyday
  • dawn_h_d
    dawn_h_d Posts: 184 Member
    Did anyone else notice the thread was started in 2011, and someone just commented on it?
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  • LuckyMunky
    LuckyMunky Posts: 200 Member
    Skin and hair both absorb water. If you know you've eaten well then that extra "gain" is most likely water weight.

    edit: just saw the date. Nevermind. What's with the zombie thread?
  • NetmanNH
    NetmanNH Posts: 39
    I have shown a gain of 4-5 lbs in the space of a few hours .. I think its just your bodies natural fluid adjustment
  • NonnyMary
    NonnyMary Posts: 982 Member
    I have experienced that almost every time I took shower and I just thought it was only my perception but with your post it seems to be something serious. Yes, I have seen my weight going up by a pound immediately after shower. I don' t have long hair so, it has nothing to do with wet hair...

    so if we dont shower maybe we can lose a pound! easy :)
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    Did anyone else notice the thread was started in 2011, and someone just commented on it?

    crap! reeled in. Seriously though? wet hair and a towel... smh
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    I DID have my hair up in a towel, which I didn't even think about until I saw some of you mention it, so maybe the towel itself was a good part of the "gain". It IS a super fluffy towel you know!! LOL. Anyway, I will weigh-in again tomorrow morning, PRE-shower, and see what happens... THANKS for all the replies, EVERYONE!!!!! :D
    brb, gonna go try to restore my faith in humanity
    speaking of which....did you ever hold up a heavy wet washcloth without your hands, anyone? if so pm me...because that would restore my faith in everything.
  • nomeejerome
    nomeejerome Posts: 2,616 Member
    Did anyone else notice the thread was started in 2011, and someone just commented on it?

    It happens.... :laugh:
  • Soulpaint
    Soulpaint Posts: 33 Member
    Wow. This is quite the 2 year old thread for someone to revive today. Very important information here :grumble:
  • _SABOTEUR_
    _SABOTEUR_ Posts: 6,833 Member
    This one's easy - water weight


    ETA: Or towel weight...
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  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    The same thing just happened to me...that's how I came across this post, looking for answers! I weighed myself before I got in the shower and gained 4.2 lbs upon getting out, just 15 min. later. I thought it was the wet hair so I dried it and dried off thoroughly and that only accounted for .9lbs. I researched the body absorbing water and everything I've read says that a hot shower actually causes a slight weight loss. I have a water softener and am now researching the effects of this on the body but haven't found anything credible yet. I've done the 5lb gain before during that time of the month but this was just random and a 15 min. difference.
    ....it does not appear to have been bumped for humor according to this post by the bumper. i really do suggest not weighing daily especially after my experience of weiiging weekly during my 25 lb loss and the the experiment of indulging my frrquent weighing tendencies when allowing myself a scale in the home. the weekly weighing reflected my steady losses. the multiple times a day weighing varied wildly and if i had not already gained trust in calories in calories out might have derailed me with their nonsensical swings.
  • jdm_taco
    jdm_taco Posts: 999 Member

    I mean come on now, men have it easy.

    You don't know what it feels like to catch a line drive in the nuts and almost lose a testicle :laugh:


    :sad:
  • Secretsundays
    Secretsundays Posts: 26
    Never, ever, ever weigh yourself after you shower. You'd be much heavier (by around 2-5lbs).
    Weigh yourself as soon as you wake up (go to the bathroom if you need to first though).
  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,371 Member
    It's funny how getting on those scales with extra items adds extra weight innit? ;-)
  • XBeccaboo
    XBeccaboo Posts: 1
    You could be like bloated or something, period maybe?
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    You could be like bloated or something, period maybe?

    I'm not sure if you read through the comments of the thread? You might have noticed that 1. this thread is several years old and 2. the OP weighed with wet hair and a towel on her head, which explains the added weight. Scales weight whatever you put on them, including anything you're wearing, what's in your pockets, food in your stomach, and, in this case, the extra water in her hair and the weight of the towel plus whatever water had been absorbed by the towel.

    Mystery solved.
  • lornakb
    lornakb Posts: 1 Member
    edited March 2018
    I just did this i was 249 before my hot bath and 254 after !!
  • lindaloo1213
    lindaloo1213 Posts: 283 Member
    My digital scale is quirky. I have to turn it on, step on it then step off. Wait for it to turn off and the turn it on again without moving it. The first time I turn it on I weigh 4lbs less than the 2nd. I always use the higher reading.
  • Sloth2016
    Sloth2016 Posts: 838 Member
    Are you showering with heavy water?
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  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    nomeejerome wrote: »
    Did anyone else notice the thread was started in 2011, and someone just commented on it?

    It happens.... :laugh:

    Again. And again. And again.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,252 Member
    diannethegeek wrote: »
    nomeejerome wrote: »
    Did anyone else notice the thread was started in 2011, and someone just commented on it?

    It happens.... :laugh:

    Again. And again. And again.

    Hey: you had your say already in 2014 :smiley:
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,282 Member
    Hilarious how people are still giving answers for OP 7 years later!!! :o:D:*

  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Do zombies weigh more after taking a shower?
  • fb47
    fb47 Posts: 1,058 Member
    nortiekeeks wrote: »
    Okay, so I weighed myself this morning. It was right after I came out of the shower. The scale showed a gain (gasp) of FIVE pounds (gasp, gasp!!). ((I must also add here that I weigh-in almost daily, and up until today I was losing - another 1.3 pounds to be exact))

    Now, this might be the most ridiculous question EVER, buuuuut, does your body absorb water in the shower, to the point of reflecting a higher number on the scale if you get on it directly after said shower??

    All I know is a 5 pound gain is CRAZINESS. Especially since I have been so good so far - same as last week, when I had a loss, so, I am left to wonder WTF??

    Really hoping this gain was just "water weight"... ;P
    Worrying about nothing, just weigh yourself in the same situation every day...in my case, I wake up...go to the bathroom and then weigh myself with as little clothes as possible (naked would be best), that's the most accurate way of doing it.
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