Why Weigh in the Morning?

You are typically told to weigh yourself in the morning right? But why really? Why Weigh in the Morning? Consistency? Is that all? I am not sure I am really satisfied with the explanations for doing this. I tend to be pretty dehydrated in the morning, given that I haven’t figured out how to drink and pee in my sleep to keep up with the hydration loss. At least not without making a huge mess. Obviously because of the hydration loss you are going to be lighter in the morning. Doesn’t this give you a false sense of things if you observe a measurement at this point? Of course this is all aside from the fact that we shouldn’t be obsessed with a number – blah blah. It is about how you feel, look and fit in things more than a number…blah blah. The point of the number is to gauge from where you are to where you want to be (or think you want to be). It is a MEASUREMENT, a specified gauge of something, a tool.
But do you want lies or do you want reality. You are obviously going to be lighter and less bloated or swollen or whatever, in the morning. Well, super great grand! I don’t generally wear swimwear or a slinky dress in the morning. I weigh myself morning and evening a lot of the time just to see the difference and sometimes it is nearly 2 kilos difference. But I don’t log the morning weight, because to me it is a lie. I want ‘worst case scenario’. I want to know what my weight is when I am fully hydrated, since I should be spending most of my hours walking around hydrated, right? Not only that but the variations of your evening or afternoon weights could help you understand other things about yourself. Were you heavier on Tuesday than you were any other day of the week? Perhaps it was that pizza you had that inflamed things…or caused water retention. (Worst case scenario noted…don’t eat pizza on a day planned for wearing swimwear.) Were you abnormally lighter on Thursday? Maybe you were not properly hydrated?!

We always leave out the weight lost down the toilet in solids too. And that is going to be a different time of day for people. I just feel people like the idea of a smaller number even if it is a lie. When people talk about loosing a pound or two I have to roll my eyes, invisibly inside my head. Did you really? Or did you poop real big and haven’t had enough to drink for a day? This is part of the reason I switched to measuring in Kilograms; it widens things a bit. Losing a kilogram is a bigger deal than losing a pound. If you have lost a kilo, you have lost 2.2 pounds. I feel it closes the gap in the variables just a touch. Then I like to log my weight at the end of the day, before bed. It makes more sense to me and what I am trying to understand about my weight and my goals. Maybe that doesn’t work or make sense to others quite as well, but that’s okay, I am used to that.