Specializes in Emergency Medicine
Dr. Google is a major source of anxiety and an excellent example of how a little bit of information can cause significant damage. It is entirely normal for an active healthy 22-year-old's weight to fluctuate by several pounds in a 24-hour period. Probably 80% of that change is due to water loss or gain and the remainder is processing what we eat into a denser storage form or burning it for energy.
Answered 11/23/2022
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Specializes in Endocrinology
This will depend on how much you eat and drink between weighing and differences in change etc in you pocket. Best to weigh bare naked both times. I might get a 100 lb bag and weigh it both am and pm to make certain your scale is not varying am pm.
Answered 11/30/2022
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