People who make heroic daily efforts to lose weight often get on the scales, wanting to make sure that their efforts were not in vain. And many of them begin to torment the question: why is weight less in the morning than in the evening and vice versa? And really, why? You will find out about the causes of this phenomenon.
What happens in the body during night sleep?
Why do we weigh less in the morning than in the evening? At night, nature falls asleep, we sleep, as part of this nature. It is in a dream that we restore the energy spent during the day, our body, like a complex computer, reboots.
During night sleep, regeneration processes occur faster, in parallel with this, intensive cleaning of cells from toxins and toxins occurs. Old damaged cells are restored and new ones are formed.
Why is weight less in the morning than in the evening?
The processes listed above take a lot of energy. In addition, the heart continues to beat, the lungs do not stop breathing, and the brain works. All this requires crazy energy. And willy-nilly, the body has to extract calories from its fat reserves, which they carefully deposited "for a rainy day." True, fat is extremely energy-intensive, so it decreases quite a bit during the night. But the scales, especially electronic, are still able to catch it.
You will say: "Sometimes I weigh less in the morning than in the evening, almost a kilogram and a half, is it really that much fat is consumed in 8-9 hours of sleep?" Unfortunately no! The bulk of the weight lost during the night is water.
How water evaporates from the body during sleep
Almost all of us have less weight in the morning than in the evening. Why? It turns out that this is largely due to two processes that are constantly happening in our body:
- The process of breathing. With each exhalation, a small amount of moisture is removed from the body. This can be seen in the cold season: in the frost on the street, all people get steam from their mouths. When we are warm, this process simply ceases to be noticeable.
- Perspiration process. We constantly lose water that goes through the pores along with sweat. In a dream under a warm blanket, this process is very intense.
What else can affect the balance?
We continue to explore the question, why is weight less in the morning than in the evening? In the morning, people are in no hurry to weigh themselves. Usually they do this only after they go to the toilet. Thanks to this, the body becomes even a little lighter.
To all of the above, it is necessary to add that when we get on the scales in the morning, all our clothes consist of almost weightless linen or light night pajamas. But in the evening we often weigh ourselves without taking off our jeans, sweaters, etc.
That is, what came from work, that’s where we get on the scales, wanting to quickly see how much they were able to throw off over the past busy day. And the weighing apparatus dispassionately adds to the weight of our body a couple of kilograms of everyday clothes. And then we are still surprised: how so, why does a person weigh less in the morning than in the evening?
But is it the other way around?
It also happens that morning indicators of weight suddenly turn out to be slightly more than evening ones or show the same result. This is most likely due to incorrect weighing. For example, in the evening the scales stood in one place, and in the morning they were transferred to another. In order for the electronic weighing device to please with correct readings, it must be placed on a flat hard surface and preferably in the same place.
Mechanical scales are less capricious, but they are also able to give incorrect results if you put them not on the floor, but on a soft rug or carpet. Also, that by morning the weight did not decrease, but grew, it is affected by nighttime snacks or drinking water. Sometimes people do this automatically when they go to the toilet at night, and in the morning they don’t even remember that they ate or drank something at night. If a lot of salty was eaten in the evening, then by the morning a person swells, which also does not contribute to a decrease in indicators on the scales.
How to use slimming night sleep
Nutritionists persistently advise not to eat at night. Some of them urge you to never eat after six in the evening, others put forward more lenient requirements and stretch the time intended for dinner until 20.00. But everyone agrees that evening meals should not be too high in calories for those who want to lose weight.
In order to lose weight in a dream, you need to eat protein food in the evening, seasoned with a vegetable side dish. Sweets, cereals, bread, and even fruits are sources of carbohydrates that the body cannot spend completely until night sleep. Always remember that in the evening the metabolism slows down significantly.
The remains of unused glucose are converted by the liver into glycogen, which the body will feed on at night. That is, he does not need to spend the already accumulated body fat. If we eat protein food (meat, cottage cheese or eggs) and vegetables in the evening, then, on the one hand, we will give the body proteins that it really needs to build new cellular structures, and vitamins, and on the other, we will ensure glycogen deficiency. Thanks to the latter, we can outwit the body and force it to extract the energy it needs from excess fat.
Now it’s clearer why weight in the morning is less than in the evening? Just do not need to wait for quick results only from protein dinners and night sleep. Physical activity during the day is required, sports at least 3 times a week are desirable. This will help speed up the metabolism and speed up the process of burning fat.
Conclusion
So, we found out that if in the evening the weight is less than in the morning, then this is a completely normal phenomenon in which there is nothing mysterious. A night's sleep helps us get rid of all the excess that directly affects the readings of the scales. We wish you a slim figure and good health!