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Originally Posted by Tarisaande
You will get more fluctuation at night than in the morning based on what you eat during the day. If you always weigh yourself right before bed, that will be the most consistent time for night weighing as anything that is going into your body has gone in by then. Consuming meals with varying amounts of liquids will cause more variation. Most of the fluctuation in weight is from water anyway, so weighing in the morning seems to even that out pretty well after the morning pee.
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This isn't necessarily true for everyone. Different folks have different circadian rhythms, different eating, drinking, and bladder/bowel patterns. There can be quite a bit of variation.
I have IBS, which means my bladder/bowel patterns are very inconsistent. And I'm also prone to water-retention (which tends to be most noticeable in the morning weigh-in).
For me, a mid-day weigh-in (just before lunch) is the most consistent. There's more variation in the morning and evening weigh-ins, but a mid-day weigh-in isn't always convenient, so I just deal with the fact that my morning weigh-in isn't the best measure, but it's the most convenient one to take - and the most convenient to document (I forget to write down evening weigh-ins).