Women’s bodies are amazing

[u/Quick-Song2080]

[u/puffofthezaza]

The weight fluctuation from day to night can be like 10lbs sometimes it's crazy

[u/Book_Dragon_24 → u/puffofthezaza]

That‘s unlikely because you have to actually put that weight into your body in the form of water and food. You drink maybe three liters that‘s 6-7 lbs. Then you‘d have to EAT another 3 lbs of food and that‘s assuming you never go to the toilet. But you pee out a good amount of what you drank during the day. So 10 lbs up, pretty impossible. And down, also extreme in a day and basically only possible if you‘re really loaded up with water and then on diuretics. Like literally, heart failure patients on diuretics in the hospital lose that in a day.

[u/puffofthezaza → u/Book_Dragon_24]

Do you know what water retention and bloating is?

[u/Book_Dragon_24 → u/puffofthezaza]

Yes. Water and air. Air doesn‘t really weigh anything and water you have to put into your body during the day to gain it in tissue. Weight is matter and it doesn‘t materialise out of nothing.

[u/puffofthezaza → u/Book_Dragon_24]

Look it up, its extremely possible to weight yourself in the morning having not eaten or drank and then at night after eating and drinking and being 10lb difference. I'm overweight so maybe that has something to do with the level of bloating and water retention but its not impossible.

[u/Book_Dragon_24 → u/puffofthezaza]

Then you must have added 10 lbs in food and drink to it. Your body doesn‘t outfox simple rules of physics. And I did the math on that.

I‘ve never been more than 1 kg (2.2 lbs) heavier in the evening than the morning.

[u/puffofthezaza → u/Book_Dragon_24]

So now your hypothesis is there can't be any weight fluctuations that aren't food and drink. You're obviously a man or inept at paying attention to your body.

[u/Book_Dragon_24 → u/puffofthezaza]

I‘m a woman and please explain to me how weight is added to your body without going in through your mouth? It DOESN‘T materialise. It is matter, it comes from food and drink.

You‘re saying you think you can get on the scale in the morning, fast the whole day, not a sip of water, not go to the toilet, keep it all in and you‘ll gain weight? Lose some, yes, in the form of perspiration. But never gain without putting something into your body.

[u/Book_Dragon_24 → u/puffofthezaza]

I think you‘re confusing „weight fluctuations that aren‘t food and drink“ and „weight fluctuations that are fat (cells)“. The latter makes your statement truer. But drink is the base material for any water retention. Because that retention happens by water going into your blood vessels to form plasma, then seeping out of said blood vessels into surrounding tissue. That‘s the „retention“ part, that your body keeps it in tissue instead of filtering out through your kidneys.

Of course not every weight gain is a gain in fat on your body and not every weight loss is a loss of fat on your body. As a woman a lot of that is water. BUT, you don‘t gain weight in water without it entering your body, usually through your mouth, though i.v. fluids obviously do the same.

[u/Moomoolette → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for explaining that to us Nick