The scale is so confusing.

 So I had surgery Monday and have become quite obsessive about the scale (I know bad idea). I have been at 231.8 for the past three days. Today I got frustrated and kept weighing myself. Sure enough, the scale said 231.8 all day until....just now. It went down to 228.1. I haven't had a BM or anything and I'm so confused as to how I lost 3 pounds in a day. I need to stop with the scale. 



Good news is I'm down 20 pounds!!

Are you wearing different clothing? Is it the same scale? Also, urine weighs a good bit too... have you gone number one much today?

I only weigh once a day: first thing in the morning, and always in my birthday suit, to make sure there is no outlying factor contributing that I could have controlled.

 Surprisingly, I thought about all those things and can't figure it out. I am going to start just weighing myself in the morning naked like you said and hopefully that will go ok!

 Weight  fluxuates.  For  some  people it  can  be  as much as  five pounds a  day. I think that's   why they  say to  check your  weight once a  week at the  same  time of  day.  I  am  horribly obsessive about  the  scale and  it always messes with my  head.  Stay  off for a  few days and   see what  happens.

I was told to stop weighing everyday and now I weigh once a week. At least I don't feel like I'm going crazy anymore.