No, this is NOT health and fitness question. This is, actually, quite a strange observation. And I DID read wise articles online - and they do not make sense to what I observe.
Here's the thing. There is law of conservation of matter.
The law of conservation of mass, or principle of mass conservation, states that for any system closed to all transfers of matter and energy (both of which have mass), the mass of the system must remain constant over time, as system mass cannot change quantity if it is not added or removed. Hence, the quantity of mass is "conserved" over time. The law implies that mass can neither be created nor destroyed, although it may be rearranged in space, or the entities associated with it may be changed in form, as for example when light or physical work is transformed into particles that contribute the same mass to the system as the light or work had contributed. The law implies (requires) that during any chemical reaction, nuclear reaction, or radioactive decay in an isolated system, the mass of the reactants or starting material must equal the mass of the products.
So this does make sense. Body is, for the most part, an inclosed system, unless you eat, or defecate, or urinate. Otherwise, only breathing is done.
Being on weight loss program as of the last 3 months, and successfully, I got tired of my old garage sale scale. Accordingly, I acquired a decent electronic scale with accuracy down to say .5 pound, realistically.
Here's my most peculiar observation.
1. It is the same scale used all the time, so eventually, one can build a median weight pattern.
2. I go to bed and weigh 230. 231, 232, 229, 228. So, weight is oscillating around 230.
3. I do not go pee or poo during night. I only sleep and breathe. There is no matter loss or intake, outside of breathing.
4. After I wake up, I go on the scale 1st thing BEFORE using toilet. The very first weight scale shows, is 225, 227, 226, 228, so it oscillates around 227-ish or so. OK, I lost 2-3 lb due to metabolic reactions inside of my body, and matter resulting went out through pores and with breath (which is strange by itself, but OK, I'll give that doubt some doubt)
5. But then the weird thing starts. I go urinate or defecate; I take shower or, even better, as I normally do every other morning, I go to the gym and heavily weight-lift for an hr or so.
Heavily.
6. I can get on the same scale 5 minutes after the 1st am measurement, or after I return from the gym - and MY BODY IS 2-3 LBS HEAVIER. I ATE NOTHING; for what it is, I disposed of some matter or BURNT A LOT AT THE GYM. And, like I said, it's continuously the same scale, so median of all weights fluctuations start showing statistically valid PATTERN.
WHERE THE HELL DOES THAT EXTRA WEIGHT COME FROM, if I did not eat, drink, and quite opposite - burnt a lot of calories, and used restroom to DISPOSE of matter?
Please do not repost same articles I already read on Google. And no, I shall keep weighing myself every day, as now I am most curious - where does that mass/weight increase come from? As, according the the law of conservation of energy, if I did not put anything into my mouth (ha-ha, no, not there either), body weight should be diclining after all the activities, not increasing.
The only explanation that I can logically see, is that inbreathing draws some matter in, and combines it with the body matter right after awakening. Which 2-3 lbs of breathed in matter is a lot for breath, don't you think? Or, true it be, during sleep, call is "astral" matter is leaving the body and then returns for ADLs, thus increasing its weight.
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