put a kg in an hour!!

skimming25
skimming25 Posts: 2
in Health and Weight Loss
got up this morning and weighed myself - had a glass of water, and two hot drinks and now I weigh 1kg more. Fed up - weight has maintained since last week but obviously has gone up by a kilo now.

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  • LottieLou13
    LottieLou13 Posts: 574 Member
    Drinks have got to weigh something. You can't put food and drink into your body and not gain weight instantly from it. Stop weighing after every drink and meal, try for once a week when you've first got up and after the loo.
  • thebigcb
    thebigcb Posts: 2,210 Member
    When you eat or drink your weight goes up. When you go to the toilet your weight goes down

    But its not real weight, its more like clothes
  • bathsheba_c
    bathsheba_c Posts: 1,873 Member
    If you drink 500 mL of water, your scale weight will go up about 1 lb. If you pee 500 mL, your scale weight will go down about 1 lb. This is why people advocate getting up in the morning, going to the bathroom, and then weighing before eating anything. Because scale weight is a combination of your weight and how much additional anything is in your body, including the water you drank and the food you are still digesting.
  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
    got up this morning and weighed myself - had a glass of water, and two hot drinks and now I weigh 1kg more. Fed up - weight has maintained since last week but obviously has gone up by a kilo now.

    1 pint of water weighs 1 lb.

    You drink a pint of water and you will instantly be 1lb heavier, but unless you ate 7000 calories over your maintenance it ain't fat.
  • yuckidah
    yuckidah Posts: 290 Member
    Of COURSE you did - you drank a kg of liquid! Where was it meant to go?
  • Sidesteal
    Sidesteal Posts: 5,510 Member
    got up this morning and weighed myself - had a glass of water, and two hot drinks and now I weigh 1kg more. Fed up - weight has maintained since last week but obviously has gone up by a kilo now.

    It is very important that you stop weighing yourself so frequently and moreover you REALLY need to focus on long term trends and not daily and CERTAINLY not intra-day weight fluctuations or you're going to drive yourself totally nuts.

    Day to day weight fluctuations are meaningless .


    I would put your scale away for a week or two.
  • Jorra
    Jorra Posts: 3,338 Member
    Wow.

    Everything in the physical world has mass. If you put something into your body, like a bunch of liquid, the scale is going to reflect your weight and the weight of the contents of your GI tract.

    You can't put on a pound of fat in an hour.
  • FatgutBgone
    FatgutBgone Posts: 73 Member
    I have to weigh myself everyday or I lose track, I also have to have clocks and watches around me all the time or I lose track of time too. As long as it stays near the same or goes up and down a little by the end of the week I usually know which way I'm headed. I stayed off the scale for over a month and put on 20 lbs. If you have to weigh yourself everyday like me, use an average over the past 5 days or so like I do.
  • GauchoMark
    GauchoMark Posts: 1,804 Member
    I have to weigh myself everyday or I lose track, I also have to have clocks and watches around me all the time or I lose track of time too. As long as it stays near the same or goes up and down a little by the end of the week I usually know which way I'm headed. I stayed off the scale for over a month and put on 20 lbs. If you have to weigh yourself everyday like me, use an average over the past 5 days or so like I do.

    Just wanted to say that you have one of the most awesome ticker pics that I have seen!
  • SanyamKaushik
    SanyamKaushik Posts: 215 Member
    Some people might have different opinions about it. But I weigh yourself everyday at roughly the same time (on empty stomach in the mornings) and keep a track through an app. Do not look into individual figure but look at the trends. e.g. the app I am using is "monitor my weight" and there would be couple of other free apps as well. The apps show graphs/trend lines etc so that is helpful.
    Again, I would stress that do not focus too much on one day's figures but the trends. For me, its more data and more data, I have, the better I can understand (to a limit) that what causes weight fluctuations. e.g. if I had a take away (high sodium) my weight next day spikes up. I do not panic as I know it will go away in a day or two etc etc.

    Hope this helps.
  • now_or_never12
    now_or_never12 Posts: 849 Member
    You drank three things... you can't expect your weight to stay the same or go down.

    Everything you do in a day changes your weight. Don't stress over the daily changes... DON'T weigh yourself so often if it bugs you to see the changes. You won't always lose
  • KatKatatrophic
    KatKatatrophic Posts: 448 Member
    People need to understand this: It's fluctuation, not a REAL gain. Don't eat/drink something and go weigh yourself, that's a way to get the most inaccurate results. You weigh yourself first thing in the morning before you eat/drink anything.
  • megleo818
    megleo818 Posts: 595 Member
    You're kidding, right? You really thought that the liquid you put into your body had no weight? Did it not weigh something as you lifted it to your mouth? -- Until it makes its way back OUT of your body, it will weigh something while it's INSIDE there. Non-caloric beverages should have no lasting effect on your weight, as long as they are not laden with sodium.
  • sktllmdrhmz
    sktllmdrhmz Posts: 1,799 Member
    Sounds like a thyroid issue.
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    Sounds like a thyroid issue.

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Thanks I needed that!
  • thirtyandthriving
    thirtyandthriving Posts: 613 Member
    hahaha!! :)
  • roachhaley
    roachhaley Posts: 978 Member
    are you serious
  • Emancipated_Tai
    Emancipated_Tai Posts: 751 Member
    I swear these are the silliest post! Your body weight will vary on a daily basis. More so after you eat or drink. The food/liquids you consume have a weight value. Where do you think that goes once you consume them?
  • Arperjen
    Arperjen Posts: 108 Member
    Weighing multiple times a day is a recipe for insanity. Trust me. :P Keep in mind some folks only step on a scale once a week and they're losing weight. The number changes throughout the day - food intake/expulsion, water weight, wearing/not wearing clothes...

    Don't fret. If you want to do it daily, just stick with once in the morning before breakfast and leave it at that.
  • mayerel
    mayerel Posts: 254 Member
    I was holding my cat this morning when I weighed in, and I had gained 10 pounds overnight!!
  • doorki
    doorki Posts: 2,576 Member
    I know exactly what you mean. I was carrying my dumbbells passed my scale so I decided to step on it and I gained 50 pounds....WTF!?!?! I am tired of this gibberjabber.
  • HeidiMightyRawr
    HeidiMightyRawr Posts: 3,343 Member
    Of course you did, water/drinks do weigh something. It's not fat you're putting on though, so don't worry.

    Saying you put on 1kg of fat after a couple of drinks is like saying you lost 1kg of fat after a substantial visit to the bathroom. It's just silly.

    I'd be more worried about the amount you are weighing yourself if I'm honest. There is no need for more than once a week, unless you are curious about daily fluctuations. EVERYBODY has daily fluctuations, which is why most people decide once a week is enough.
  • mes1119
    mes1119 Posts: 1,082 Member
    you're joking right? you consumed something, therefore the weight you gained was not fat....
  • jsenecal12
    jsenecal12 Posts: 42
    If you weighed yourself with nothing at all and got one number, and then weighed yourself again holding all those beverages and your weight went up, would you assume you had gained fat mass and the whole world was falling to pieces? Of course not, because you'd know that those things have their own weight. It's the exact same thing.
  • determined2lose89
    determined2lose89 Posts: 342 Member
    Wow. Really?! :yawn:
  • madamepsychosis
    madamepsychosis Posts: 472 Member
    Of COURSE you did - you drank a kg of liquid! Where was it meant to go?

    It's a medical fact that any liquid you ingest goes to Aquodia, aka water heaven. Clearly the OP has a deep-seated health issue.
  • KeriW626
    KeriW626 Posts: 430
    oh my god you should meet my mother in law. You and her would get along great. She weighs all day long. It doesnt appear to driver her nuts but it does me. Oh Ive lost 3 lbs. Damn i gained 7. What the hell Ive gained another 10, thats 13 today. Ohhhh ok, I peed and pooped, No Im down by 5 over all... etc. etc.

    I personally cannot weigh more than once a week. It drives me nuts. So I weigh on Monday morning. My weight is just steadly goind down, about a lb a week. I know the 32 oz drink of tea I just had, will make me gain.... but by next monday, who will care!...
  • graelwyn
    graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
    Lol, this one made me laugh.
    Get a grip, of course you weighed more, do you think the liquids you drink instantly evaporate into thin air when you drink them ?
    It is common sense that if you eat or drink something, that food and drink is going to add to your scale weight.

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