Suprised by weight difference

Thanks everyone for your comments and the reference articles/websites. It
is not that I think the dramatic differences will discourage me (I am in
this for the long haul), but just that I thought my old scale was not
working properly (until I bought a new one with the same results) and was
curious to see if anyone had experienced the same.

I realize that I am now making a concerned effort to drink more fluids
(water mainly) and that I am getting up more often to use the bathroom at
night. This obviously would account for some of the weight differences...

Again, thanks for your comments

Hector

"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message
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"Oldhobo30001" wrote:

My question/issue is that I have been noticing a huge (between 4 lbs and
almost 6 lbs) difference in weight between my evening weight in (before I
go
to bed) and my morning weight in right after I get up. I am a lot
lighter
in the morning. I initially thought It was my scale (it was very old) so
my
wife bought me a new fancy one and I still get the same results. Is this
normal? I did not expect that much differences overnight.

This is exactly why it is a horrendously bad idea to weigh more than
once
per day. Everything from sweating on changes the scale reading. And
none of it can possibly be a difference in fat.

The list of valid reasons for weighing more than once per day is very
short.
To see what variation your scale has by stepping on every ten minutes
for
a while. To drive yourself crazy by focusing on the noise in the data
in
order to lose sight of the trend. To track what effect eating a meal
has.

Folks who sucessfully maintain tend to weigh in daily to be able to
catch
regain before it gets large. As long as you are on your plan, you're
in the
losing phases so you're not on maintenance yet so you don't have that
need. How often to weigh depends on your emotional reaction - Weigh
infrequently if you have a strong reaction or if you are stoic about
it day
daily and do a weekly average to give the daily bouncing numbers a
real
meaning. But more often than daily, not usefull.