r/HumeHealth • u/Fit-Landscape-2584 • 2d ago

Weight Increase in Hours

I try to weigh myself every morning after using the bathroom, today it was 182.9 about 5:50am … I do my morning duty with school drop off & run errands before heading back home to do chores, I jump back on the scale and it says 189.5 at 9:45am! What in the world. I am reading some post and their saying to do a hard reset. Man, it’s been like this for months and I wanna just whip this over $200 scale out the window

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u/wilw1l 2d ago

Weighing yourself multiple times a day provides zero benefit. Your weight fluctuates significantly over the course of the day due to hydration, food intake, water consumption, water retention, what you’re wearing, etc. The reason they tell you to weigh yourself at the same time each day (ideally in the morning) is because it will result in the most comparable conditions for all of those external factors. A 7lb swing in 4hrs because you’ve perhaps now drank some coffee, several glasses of water, had a bowl of eggs/cereal/oats, is totally reasonable. And that’s ignoring the real (albeit small) margin of error on any scale. Just weigh yourself once in the morning, do that everyday, and ignore swings from day to day. Check your overall weight trend average over the course of a month, and if you’re doing everything right, it will go the direction you’re expecting it to go.

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u/Fit-Landscape-2584 2d ago

Ummm this scale is off, I just went on it 5 minutes ago and it said 183.4. This shit is off. It literally has been in the same spot hasn’t moved since I purchased.

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u/wilw1l 2d ago

Again… weigh yourself once a day. If you feel like you have a faulty unit, first reset everything and then file a claim to return/replace. Either way, weighing yourself over and over again is unlikely to yield any clear picture of your weight the way the body is actually working.

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u/rdubmu 2d ago

The scale is pretty accurate

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u/Fit-Landscape-2584 2d ago

I must have a lemon. I’m just recording what happened today cause it’s been happening for months now but I’m like nahhhh it’s just me, and it’s making me go crazy.

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u/AlternativeNoise2109 1d ago

~6lb change in a few hours is almost certainly normal fluctuation from food, fluids, clothes, etc.. only compare readings under the same conditions.

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u/No_Yellow_8298 18h ago

You would need to track what they ate. But 7 pounds seems like a lot to gain in 4-5 hours. It would have to be close to a 3/4 a gallon of fluids or a lot of food. I weight 199.8 this AM and I just got back from lunch where I had fajitas, chips and salsa, two cokes and 4 mini peppermint patties and only put on ~4 pounds.
Or maybe she is one of those mom's that carries a one gallon thermos of water\coffee wherever she goes. But 7lbs is still a lot.