I just don't understand????

Because weight fluctuates throughout the day..? Water retention, what you've eaten, etc play a roll in weighing in heavier in the evening. Track your morning weight after you use the bathroom and don't worry about what it says later. Stop weighing yourself so often, it will only make you crazy.

that is completely normal... you always weigh less when you wake up... there's no food in your system and you're partially dehydrated...

as long as you weigh yourself same time of the morning i'd go with that, as that is your actual weight... i'm always 3-4 pounds heavier before bed compared to waking...

Your weight will jump daily. It is best to pick one day a week, same time of day, and same clothing (or nakedness). If you are someone who lets the numbers get to them just a little too much, which sounds like that might be the case, I recommend staying off the scale for a full month to avoid being discouraged if it doesn't move down fast enough. Maybe do a once a month weigh-in for 3-6 months and see if that makes a difference? (easier said than done, I know!)

Oh, for pete sake. Weigh in the morning and be done with it.

Seriously.

Can someone please explain why in the beginning of the day I can weigh 3 pounds less then I do by late afternoon? I know that whole water thing etc. but what is my actual weight then???? If I go by what I weigh in the morning I am where I should be even more - if I go by what is in the afternoon I am not moving! Starting to get frustrating.....

The food and water you consume has actual weight. A 16-oz. latte weighs . . . a pound. It takes time to eliminate. Just weigh yourself once in the morning, empty and naked. That is your empty weight. It will be your lowest.

It's an interesting question. How much of your weight is water, what's currently in your digestive system, clothing, etc. If you're weighing yourself that often just to learn how much your weight normally fluctuates during a day, fine. But as others have said, if you're doing this to "see how well you're doing toward your goal" it will be misleading, frustrating, etc.

To measure progress, pick a day of the week that is fairly "normal" for you, and weigh yourself before eating in the morning. By normal, I'm suggesting you don't do it right after a night when your routine is most likely to vary. For instance, if you tend to do special things on Saturday night, so one week you may go out dancing or bowling, but another Saturday you'll go to a good restaurant (worth a few extra calories) and no exercise, then Sunday morning would not be a good morning for you to pick. And by weighing yourself after visiting the bathroom, but before you visit the kitchen, you won't confuse things with the variability of how much you ate or drank for breakfast or ate last night. Now that doesn't take care of any hormonal or monthly fluctuations, but after a cycle or two, you can figure out the adjustment for that.

I also used to find that sometimes it took a few days or even as much as a week before what I was eating seemed to "catch-up" with me. So, if I weighed myself the day after I was very good about what I ate, it wouldn't show any progress and I'd get discouraged. Then when I weighed myself after I ate a bunch of junk, it would show no effect or even a good effect from the previous days, so it would give me the sense that I could eat the junk. And it was very demotivating. Now I see the effects of what I eat faster without that delay... I don't understand that either, but I have learned that it works out over time.

Thanks to the folks here who have helped me learn part of this.

Good luck!