Does this happen to anyone else?
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withchaco
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I wake up much earlier (say, by 1-3 hours) than my usual time. I pee and weigh myself, and I weigh a bit more than I normally would.
Then I drink a cup of water and go back to sleep. I wake up later, pee and weigh myself again. My weight is back to what it normally is.
This happens to me EVERY time I wake up earlier. Has anyone else had this happen to them?
The only plausible explanation I can think of is my body retains water during sleep as a part of nightly system reparation or whatever, then releases the water when it's ready to wake up (which means the second pee releases more water than I drank earlier). But maybe it's something else entirely... like my scale throwing a fit because I woke it up too early... :laugh:
Then I drink a cup of water and go back to sleep. I wake up later, pee and weigh myself again. My weight is back to what it normally is.
This happens to me EVERY time I wake up earlier. Has anyone else had this happen to them?
The only plausible explanation I can think of is my body retains water during sleep as a part of nightly system reparation or whatever, then releases the water when it's ready to wake up (which means the second pee releases more water than I drank earlier). But maybe it's something else entirely... like my scale throwing a fit because I woke it up too early... :laugh:
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i've noticed that if i wake up early and weigh myself, then go to sleep and wake up again like 3-4 hours later and weigh myself, i'm usually lighter!! but i don't drink anything when i do this haha... i always assumed it was just more proof that our bodies really do need at least 8 hours of sleep to lose weight!0
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Somewhere long ago I read that in the morning you will weigh the least in part due to small changes in gravity due to the cycle of the moon. However I haven't been able to find anything supporting that theory (though I haven't looked very hard). But who knows - maybe that's it!0
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Same thing happens to me too ^^. This morning, I jolted awake at 6 AM, went to the bathroom, and then weighed myself just for kicks, and I was only down a pound from what I was last night after dinner. Then I went back to sleep, woke up again around 10, went to the bathroom, weighed myself, and I was down another pound~0
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I'll have to pay attention. Normally I don't get to go back to sleep after I get up though0
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I'm always 2lbs lighter when I weigh my self in the morning. However, if I happen to get up a couple hours earlier then the norm? I'm only 1lb lighter. But if I don't eat or drink anything and just wait till the normal weigh time? I'm the usual 2lbs lighter. Just the way my body works.0
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You know how if you breathe out onto a mirror or window, it fogs up? That's water, coming out of your lungs. Every breath out expels a little water. The longer you breathe (without putting more food into your body or clothes on that will make you weigh more), the lower you will weigh.0
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