How much weight is it normal to gain during the day?
Posted on | August 30, 2009 |
I’ve become weight obsessed like so many people and I weigh myself throughout the day. Monday - Thursday I’ve weighed by morning weight by like 7:00pm. The next morning (Tues. - this morning) I would weight 1.5-2lbs less than the previous morning. Today I cheated a little (3 donut holes) and I’m up 2lbs from this morning. Does that mean I’ll gain weight by tomorrow morning?
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August 30th, 2009 @ 9:36 am
You might hold onto that weight, but it’s water, not fat. The fluctuations you describe are completely normal. I’m pretty light, and fluctuate 3 or 4 pounds daily. Any noticeable weight gain/loss over a single day is water and food weight. It takes 3,500 calories to equal one pound. To gain a pound a day, you would need to eat 3,500 calories OVER your daily requirement. That’s probably at least 5,500 calories in a single day. Even if you completely gorged yourself, you would have a tough time gaining 1 pound of real fat in a day. 3 donut holes may slow down your weight loss, but it’s not going to put you up 2 pounds. However, it may cause you to hold onto the water weight you previously lost (sugars are notorious for this…) The best thing to do is weigh yourself at the same time each day and try to lose the million times a day scale obsession. I find mornings the most accurate because you haven’t had any food or liquid yet, etc.
August 30th, 2009 @ 9:36 am
it might just be that your body is retaining a lot of water, if u drink like 8 cups a day it helps your degestive system and u might loose weight so ya that might be it
August 30th, 2009 @ 9:36 am
losing up to two lbs in one night isn’t healthy, as for gaining it in one night also!!
** I would go to the DOCTORS or PHYSICIAN..**
((no offense but you’ve become WAY TO OBSESSED))
August 30th, 2009 @ 9:36 am
Weight can fluctuate up to 8 pounds through the day.
August 30th, 2009 @ 9:36 am
Weight fluctuations that occur during the DAY are not indicative of BODY FAT weight gain, but rather water retention, a full stomach, or a full or nearly full bladder. This is because during the day you drink a lot of fluids (hopefully!) and eat your 3 meals and snacks, so all of this extra matter increases your body weight. But it does not mean that the food you ate during the day automatically coverted into body fat and immediately was stored as body fat by your body. This is a common misconception which usually leads people to obsessively weigh themselves during different times of the day.
My word of advice to you is to stop weighing yourself during the day. It leads to obsessive thoughts and behavior and could also fuel an eating disorder. Weigh yourself AT LEAST twice a week, if not less.
Another misconception that relates to this issue is that saunas cause you to lose body fat weight. This is ridiculously false. Saunas actually dehydrate your body by causing you to sweat. This loss of water equates to a loss in WATER WEIGHT. So you just lost water, not fat.
Hope this helped to answer your question.
August 30th, 2009 @ 9:36 am
You should never weigh yourself that frequently. It’s not that it’s unhealthy, but it is not realistically showing your weight. Your weight appears to change based on what you eat, whether you’ve passed a BM, and how much water you are retaining, etc. For an accurate reading of your weight, weigh yourself naked (clothes add weight) in the MORNING…and don’t weight yourself again for a week (again, do it in the morning sans clothing).
August 30th, 2009 @ 9:36 am
Why don’t you weigh yourself every two weeks?