i've noticed up to 5 pounds difference before and after a bath
2006-09-20 10:18:17 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The body (skin) absorbs a certain amount of water when bathing...but 5lbs seems excessive.
Why not look up 'heavier after bath' or something similar online, and see what you come up with?
2006-09-20 10:21:34 · answer #1 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do we? No one told me.
Do you really weigh yourself before and after you have a bath?
Why?
The pissing in the bath answer makes the most sense here.
2006-09-20 10:26:53 · answer #2 · answered by kittyfreek 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a turkish bath (very hot bath) you loose weight because the heat causes you to sweat, and hence you loose water from your body making you weigh less (temporarily, until your body naturally restores this water).
But as for gaining weight...........maybe you weigh yourself with wet hair??
2006-09-20 10:30:14 · answer #3 · answered by lakmii 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess we soak up the water... (remember giving your teddies a bath when you were little and they'd be ooh so heavy that your mummy needs to help you pick them up to hang them on the line by their ears?) On a more adult note, people weigh less in the morning, so for ego's sake, I tend to weigh myself as soon as I get up, before my bath and breakfast.
2006-09-20 10:28:59 · answer #4 · answered by floppity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because when you push up to get out the bath and your bum is still in the water, the exertion sucks up bath water in one's back pipe but you don't realize as your body temperature is same as water temp.
2006-09-20 10:30:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your weight gain is due to the fact that you sat in the bath for 3 days eating pizza. You slob.
2006-09-20 10:36:03 · answer #6 · answered by Haddock 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your body and hair absorbs water while in the bath 5lbs is a lot tho were you eating or drinking in the bath and were you Waring a robe when you weighed yourself after?
2006-09-20 10:28:46 · answer #7 · answered by NetNet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously you eat in the bath.
Children always seem to piss in the bath so come out lighter
2006-09-20 10:38:20 · answer #8 · answered by "Call me Dave" 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Counteract the effect by pissing in the bath.
2006-09-20 10:20:31 · answer #9 · answered by C T 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Now that I didn't know! Maybe the water gets in and can't get out.
2006-09-20 10:21:54 · answer #10 · answered by Citizen Mac 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋