Well, I'm afraid you've confirmed what I already knew, Anne. I'm odd!

I normally weigh myself every morning, as soon as I get up and just before I step in the shower. I have a digital scale that weighs within 1/10th of a pound and I tend to weigh EXACTLY the same every morning! I would guess that this happens about 12 mornings out of 14. The other 2, I may find that I'm up or down 0.2 or 0.4 which is usually explainable by a large dinner the night before or being somewhat dehydrated. I'm not sure if this is because I tend to eat pretty much the same way everyday or if I truly am odd. Of course, at different times during the day, I do fluctuate a little depending on my last meal and the clothes I have on but not a great deal, I don't think. I've read so much about fluctuations of the scale and they usually say that even at the same time and with the same conditions, most people vary a few pounds either way. I'm very curious to know why, exactly, that I'm different this way.

Does anyone else have a fairly static weight first thing in the morning?

No Barb, I don't think that's odd if you are basically eating the same thing every day and weighing first thing in the morning nekkid. That's what I do and 8 times out of 10, the scale says the same thing. Mine measures in 1/2 pound increments so it's not quite as finely tuned, but pretty consistent. My point was that I want to see that consistency and I know my body well enough at this point to predict when I won't for a short-term, isolated behavior that has nothing to do with longer-term weight gain (like Chinese food = water retention, heavy leg workout = water retention). So if I start seeing higher numbers, even a half a pound for 4-5 days running, it's time to take a closer look at what I'm doing.

Mel

We are all very different and it seems perfectly normal to me to be reasonably stable. It doesn't show up in the data above since the days were pretty similar food-wise, but one of the big contributors to variation for me is that my food plan accommodates the amount of exercise I do. A sedentary day or day with light exercise gets me about 1700 calories, while an all day bike ride might get me 4000. And that's a lot more volume to carry around for a day or so.

Today I'm on some kind of a salt feast. I'll see that tomorrow for sure! Not convinced it's necessarily a bad thing once in a while since my BP is so low, but it's good to know about it and not be surprised.

Anne

I had some time to day and was much more rational. I went back and re-read this thread. Thanks again Anne. I also read my response and never did chart my own fluctuations. I need to do that as my post indicates. I can no longer afford to upset my self with something that is transit in nature. If its a gain, it needs to be acknowledge and deal with it if its a flucuations I need to acknowledge that as well.

I am getting too old for the roller coaster ride I put myself on.

Thanks for sharing your information. I used to be a strict once a week weigher. Now that I'm on maintenance, I tend to weigh every other day. I normally weigh of the morning, without clothes. I have noticed that if I weigh at night without clothes that I weigh less usually. I don't know why this would be the case.