Interesting phenomenon...

[Big Homestead]

I know this one.

The body has a certain amount of movement and elasticity to it. When you sleep, your insides shift and your spine elongates a bit. Thats why you are taller in the morning. As the day progresses, your spine compresses and your midrift gets wider as you get shorter through the day. How much you eat in a day, and your bowels play a big part. Water retention should be taken into account, but thats the most of it there.

When the opposite is taking place, you are burning up calories and water, combined with you are stretching the material in your kilt.

Cheers

[James MacMillan]

I know this one.

The body has a certain amount of movement and elasticity to it. When you sleep, your insides shift and your spine elongates a bit. Thats why you are taller in the morning. As the day progresses, your spine compresses and your midrift gets wider as you get shorter through the day. How much you eat in a day, and your bowels play a big part. Water retention should be taken into account, but thats the most of it there.

When the opposite is taking place, you are burning up calories and water, combined with you are stretching the material in your kilt.

Cheers

Wait a minute.......
If I read this like I think it means, those of us who don't use the facilities regularly and find that we must expand the waist band do so because we are full of - - - - - Did I read that right?

[Finn]

Gunny, you said it, we didn't!

[Big Homestead]

Wait a minute.......
If I read this like I think it means, those of us who don't use the facilities regularly and find that we must expand the waist band do so because we are full of - - - - - Did I read that right?

hahahaha!!!!, yeah, I kind guess so.

[Tommie]

Ok, here's my take...
In the Army we were always measured/weighed in the morning. The explanation was that while sleeping & lying flat, the body extended. As the day progressed gravity worked its marvel and pulled the body downward. What was slim became... not.
I've always held that I'm shorter at bedtime than at waking.
Anyway, those were my pennies...

Now this makes sense.Gravity!.Yeah! Thats it!.
Now if I can convince my wife thats whats causing my belts to keep shrinking.

[Pleater]

I do the hanging up and taking down of laundry in the mornings - because I put the things on hangers and stand on tiptoe to get them up onto the rods in the conservatory roof.

If I need anything down from the rods in the evening I have to stand on a brick to reach it - I have shrunk during the day.

Its just the effect of gravity on the soft parts - the price we pay for getting up on our hind legs and standing perpendicular to the world.

It is no wonder we are such agressive little primates - all the others have two heights - normal and threateningly upright hear me roar - we only have the one. It is as though we are destined from the age of eighteen months to be totally at odds with the rest of the world.

[Nighthawk]

Just to ad my two cents worth, I've been working to get leaner for a little over a year now. I've always had a pretty regular workout regimen, but I found it curious that by bedtime I weighed as much as 8-10 lbs more than when I got up in the morning. Odd thing was that the leaner I got the less pronounced this effect was.

It took me a while to put two & two together, but I finally began to figure out that I was drinking a minimum of a gallon and a half of water a day (I know because I kept track). Water weighs 8 lbs/gal. so I was literally adding 8-12 lbs to my body weight each day in water. Muscle only holds so much water and then it's done, where fat cells will soak it up like a sponge and, like a sponge, expand as they do so.

I'm guessing that this is why you seem to get bigger as the day goes on, but then return to "normal" during the night when your body is drying out...so to speak.

YMMV

That's exactly what's going on!! I'm a martial artist, so on nights when I'm not working on kata, I'm out walking. I walk at least a mile a day along with my other activities. And I drink next to nothing but water, with my morning cup of water and bed time glass of milk being the exceptions. So this really makes a lot of sense! Thanks for helping me put 2+2 together.

[Nighthawk]

Wait a minute.......
If I read this like I think it means, those of us who don't use the facilities regularly and find that we must expand the waist band do so because we are full of - - - - - Did I read that right?

No no. I'm always full of that- Morning, noon, and night.