How is this possible?

gashinshotan
gashinshotan Posts: 749 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
So yesterday morning I weighed 168.4.... last night I ate out and ate 400 over my target.... this morning I weighed 168.0... ate half a cup of brocolli and beef, a cup of Cheerios with almond milk, and a banana - slept for 3 hours and wokeup and I knew I had lost weight and confirmed it just now.... 167.2..... how is this possible? The scale is very accurate (compared it to several hospital scales) and I did not go to the bathroom since before I weighed the first time this morning...

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  • pinkgigi
    pinkgigi Posts: 693 Member
    just the ups and downs during the day, you'll make yourself crazy on weighing more than once a day, because it varies widely.

    GG
  • stevwil41
    stevwil41 Posts: 608 Member
    Weighing yourself multiple times during the day will make you crazy. I freely admit that I weigh myself 4 or 5 times a week but never twice in the same day and if the scale does something funky, which mine does once every couple of months, I just put it away and try again the next day otherwise it will make you insane.
  • gashinshotan
    gashinshotan Posts: 749 Member
    Yeah but is it possible to sweat out .8 lbs during a three hour nap? Its not warm in the house maybe 65 degreesbut I did use a blanket....
    just the ups and downs during the day, you'll make yourself crazy on weighing more than once a day, because it varies widely.

    GG
  • beckywilkeherbst
    beckywilkeherbst Posts: 139 Member
    Is it possible that the foods you ate sped up your metablosim and therefore burned some of the calories you ate up while you were sleeping? I am sure you know that even sleeping burns calories.
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/390212-weight-fluctuations-why-do-they-happen
  • cjpg
    cjpg Posts: 433 Member
    How much water have you been drinking? The body is very adaptable, but it needs time to process intake into energy.

    Try this:

    - Weigh yourself
    - Drink 3 cups of water
    - Weight yourself again

    The entire amount of water will show up on the scale. This is the danger of weighing multiple times a day after every small action... its highly inaccurate.

    Don't worry about it dude, just do what I do - it's ok to weigh yourself every day, to check up if you're curious... but for the love of god DON'T TRACK IT! Just track it once a week and leave the rest up to curiosity!
  • Articeluvsmemphis
    Articeluvsmemphis Posts: 1,987 Member
    lol, be great-full. it's very possible. i've weighed myself within an hour and gained 2 pounds. weight fluctuations are actually kind of interesting to me.
  • JamesonsMommy
    JamesonsMommy Posts: 771 Member
    I quit weighing myself everyday and only do it once a week.. May actually stick with measurments instead :) The tape is being more of a friend than the scale...lol
  • Justjoshin
    Justjoshin Posts: 999 Member
    I can fluctuate 6-8lbs in 16 hrs. Weighing yourself a few times a day will make most people insane.
    (I do it to see how my body weight fluctuates /shrug)
  • Uerzer
    Uerzer Posts: 273
    Take random error into the equation.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_error

    I use a quite accurate medical/professional scale, and it includes a +/- 200 grams error....

    BTW, i weight in 5 times a day.. i just take into account randomness. more info here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Uerzer
  • robinxhope
    robinxhope Posts: 125 Member
    <Yeah but is it possible to sweat out .8 lbs during a three hour nap? Its not warm in the house maybe 65 degreesbut I did use a blanket....>


    We loose 500ml of water a day just with respiration. My job requires me to know these little facts. That's in itself is close to a lb.
  • UponThisRock
    UponThisRock Posts: 4,519 Member
    I wouldn't weigh more than once a week
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    Yeah but is it possible to sweat out .8 lbs during a three hour nap? Its not warm in the house maybe 65 degreesbut I did use a blanket....
    just the ups and downs during the day, you'll make yourself crazy on weighing more than once a day, because it varies widely.

    GG

    I'm just as crazy as you. Sometimes I weigh myself before and after a nap and yep, will be down by over a lb sometimes :)
  • gashinshotan
    gashinshotan Posts: 749 Member
    Oh I guess it is possible then haha...
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    In fact my best weight loss happened when I slept a lot. Not saying it's cause and effect but I don't mind another excuse to sleep :)
  • stephaniev07
    stephaniev07 Posts: 59 Member
    Let me say this for me, I weigh myself every morning. in just underwear. i get up go to the bathroom #1 then hit the scale. I then put a sports bra on nothing else do some strength excersizes such as crunches leg lifts push ups go directly and weigh myself I am now two pounds heavier. I dunno how that is possible. Which makes in my opinion anything possible. :) I"ll trade you a weight loss for my weight gain anyday.
  • mauryr
    mauryr Posts: 385
    I weigh myself before and after working out... sometimes 5 lbs difference.
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