I’m on a diet and I weigh myself every morning. Last night I weighed myself before bed. This morning, I weighed myself when I got up. I was 5 pounds lighter this morning than I was last night. I was a bit heavier than usual because I had had a friend over and we ate a bunch of pizza and I always drink a lot of water.
In that time all I did was sleep. I didn’t use the washroom to pee or poo or anything else that involves stuff coming out of me.
Where the hell did all of that weight go? I understand that you sweat, but 5 pounds in 9 hours? That seems crazy.
In: Biology
You should monitor that. Losing 5 lbs over night can be a sign of kidney and or heart failure.
Basically if your kidneys or heart can’t keep up during the day fluid gets retained (edema) then when you lay down the heart/kidneys have an easier time pulling the fluid out and you pee it all out in the morning.
As a kidney transplant recipient myself I went through this in the years before I started dialysis. It was routine for me to drop 5-10 lbs of water overnight because my kidneys simply couldn’t keep up when I wasn’t laying down.
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