I was just wondering - on a daily basis, how much weight do we actively change? 2lbs? 5lbs? 10?

Just a bizarre conversation topic that I was hoping might get answered here.

Thanks!

Dave (often asks questions for the sake of asking)

I was just wondering - on a daily basis, how much weight do we actively change? 2lbs? 5lbs? 10?

Just a bizarre conversation topic that I was hoping might get answered here.

Thanks!

Dave (often asks questions for the sake of asking)
I believe this is the prototype of question to ask for the sake of asking.

Why do you care? It depends in so many variables (individual, food intake, sodium intake, water intake, potassium intake, exercise, sleep...) that it's pointless to give a number. It could be -2 lbs. It could be +10 lbs.

I don't see how that information would be of any use to anybody. Weight fluctuation is not Brownian motion (which behaves the same at ANY time scale). Weight loss has to be tracked on a weekly basis AT THE VERY LEAST.

I was just wondering - on a daily basis, how much weight do we actively change? 2lbs? 5lbs? 10?

Just a bizarre conversation topic that I was hoping might get answered here.

Thanks!

Dave (often asks questions for the sake of asking)

I agree with Cziffra, it doesn't really matter and its entirely subjectively individual, but for the sake of argument, I usually go up around 4 to 5 pounds each day. (I've checked this before bedtime)

I usually weigh every day, always at the same time, before breakfast, and that's where I know my baseline bodyweight.

I also weigh at other times, and generally in the evening I am 2lbs heavier, sometimes up to 3lbs heavier.

The top of that range depends on food and water intake, what's not yet been digested and so on.

The true weight is the baseline weight. The rest I call "movable weight".

While I check it often, I don't obsess with it (I know it looks like it). It's just that I am happy when it get lower but I don't worry if it gets higher.

I also measure bf%, but I trust the mirror and the way my clothes fit more than the measurements. And the number of times I have to buy new clothes.

But I think your question is a perfectly valid one. Perhaps you are worried when the scale goes up, well I think a 3, 4lbs variation is very common, and sometimes more. In any case don't be worried about weight per se, it's only a problem if it's fat weight.

Vincent.

If I eat clean, 5-6 meals, and get all my water there is no weight change for me from morning to evening.

If I eat badly (like I used to) there is a 5 pound difference between my morning and evening weights.

I can fluctuate 5 pounds or sometimes more in a day, but I think it is mostly water weight. I typically weigh in at the same time under the same conditions every day. That number can go up and down, but I can tell trends over about two weeks or so. Anything less than two weeks is not helpful. Now, when my weight goes up, I can pretty much predict my weight every time I get on the scale, to within about .5 lb. I do it anyway, because every so often I'm off by a pound or so. General trends, my friend, general trends -- that's the key.

I'm not sure if you're talking about fluctuations within the same day, or water-weight fluctuations from day-to-day? Like many others, I weigh myself first thing in the morning, before eating or drinking, and use that as my "official" weight. There's really no reason to weigh yourself at any other time of the day, but just for the heck of it I have stepped on the scale later in the day, and it usually reads 5 lbs or so heavier. Day-to-day water-weight fluctuations from one morning reading to the next (which are obviously more of a concern) can be up or down 2 lbs or so (at least for me). So, if I'm cutting, I don't get concerned about an increase of up to 2 lbs. from the previous day. Any more than that, though, and I take another look at my diet (assuming the weight doesn't go right back down).

LOL, I thought it might get some of those reactions... Honestly it was just a question my roommate asked me and I couldn't figure out the answer. . . No, this is not me panicking about 2-3lbs in the evening vs. the morning (I also weigh myself first thing for baseline).

Its just very interesting how our bodies operate... Taking on 1-2% of its own weight everyday and then processing it etc.

I'm just one of those people that can't leave a question unanswered.

Dave (goes crazy when people tell stories about something and don't get to finish it)