# So where did the weight go? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 29, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402 "2017-07-29T17:59:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402/21 "2017-07-31T23:03:56Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > The op also explicitly stated: “weighed myself before going to the bathroom”. Yeah but if you look up articles about “how often should you go to the bathroom” you’ll find lots where people **just** mean defecate. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402/22 "2017-08-01T03:07:45Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Joe Piscopo used to imitate Andy Rooney. One of the things he would say as Rooney was, “Ya ever notice that when you’re born, everybody wants to know how much you weigh, but nobody wants to know when you die? You’re never gonna hear, ‘Rudy Vallee died today. He weighed 158 pounds.’” 🙂 You would if Rudy Vallee died propelling his body through someone else’s orifice. You likewise never hear anyone saying “Cute baby. How old was he when he was born?” either. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402/23 "2017-08-01T12:09:38Z")
Did you poop? ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402/24 "2017-08-01T12:50:24Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I have a home scale with a digital display; I don’t know how accurate it is, but when I first got it I was surprised how repeatable it is. If I weigh myself once, and then again five minutes later, it will be the same number. So repeatable in fact that I wondered if they didn’t keep in memoiry the last reading and display it again if the next one is close enough. For instance, if I weight myself, go to pee and weight myself again, I get the exact same weight, which shouldn’t happen if the scale is as accurate as it appears (1/10th of a kilo) nor if _isn’t_ very accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402/25 "2017-08-01T15:21:11Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > But I think it’s much worse than that. Over time I noticed that certain numbers never came up. I’d weigh (for example) 207.6, or 206.2, but never anything in between. I don’t know exactly why it does that, but there’s definitely some rounding going on. Maybe it actually weighs in intervals of (say) 100 grams, and then converts that to pounds if you have it set to pounds? As for the weight loss, metabolism converts some the carbon in your body into carbon dioxide, which leaves your body overnight and melts the glaciers. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402/26 "2017-08-01T15:30:06Z")
It’s a common myth that people swallow eight spiders every night while they sleep. The truth is eight spiders actually escape from our mouths every night. There’s your answer. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402/27 "2017-08-02T00:12:23Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > It’s a common myth that people swallow eight spiders every night while they sleep. The truth is eight spiders actually escape from our mouths every night. There’s your answer. And given that the weight lost over night is typically about a pound and a half we’re taking eight _large_ tarantulas people! That aint butterflies you’re feeling … just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402/28 "2017-08-02T01:03:31Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That wasn’t true for Karen Carpenter. That’s because she went from cute to dead at 58 pounds wet. Weight being the reason she was dead Or more correctly the cause of the weight. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402/29 "2017-08-10T17:35:04Z")
You sleep walk at night, go pee, and reset the scale. And that’s why you have those bruises you can’t remember getting. And why your neighbor’s house looked so familiar when they invited you to their Christmas party. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-the-weight-go/792402.md?page=1)