Why do I weigh three lbs less in the morning than at night?
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Anonymous
| Is it normal for your weight to fluctuate by this much in the course of a day? |
Anonymous
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It’s normal.
It’s water retention. It’s best to just weight yourself once a day at the same time to get a sense of your baseline. |
Anonymous
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Yes. Water.
You're sleeping 8+ hours or so and you lose a lot of water from perspiration and out of your nose/mouth. Many people also pee when they get up. When you're actually awake, do you usually go 8-10 hours without drinking something? Most likely not. But that's what you do when you sleep. |
Anonymous
| When you sleep, you are breathing but not eating. Guess what carbon dioxide is made of? |
Anonymous
?? I don't even know where you are going but a carbon and two oxygen is my guess? LOL |
Anonymous
| Yes, it’s normal. I only weigh myself in the morning after peeing. I weigh myself everyday, but the only one that “counts” in terms of measuring weight loss/gain is once a week on Saturday. |
Anonymous
| Interesting, as I tend to fluctuate between 4-6 lb every month based on time of the month, time of day etc. I also think scales can differ. I always weigh a couple pounds less on my home digital scale than on the old-fashioned kind used at my doctor's office. |
Anonymous
| I fluctuate ~7 lbs and average 120 so I always think it's weird when people talk about losing 5 lbs...I'm like how can you tell? |
Anonymous
Yup. I bloat throughout the day too 
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Anonymous
Same. I always weigh like four pounds more in the eve. |
Anonymous
7 lbs out of 120 is a huge fluctuation if you are taking from one day the next |
Anonymous
| Totally normal, it’s the water loss overnight. I weigh first thing in the morning and it’s usually about 4 pounds less than when I’m going to sleep. |
Anonymous
| It's also because you eat and drink during the day. |
Anonymous
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I like the morning number so I never weigh myself at night. Am I in denial about how much I really weigh?
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Anonymous
No! |