Weird daily size change

Okay, this is an odd observation.

When I get up in the morning before I've eaten anything, I'm much happier with how my body looks profile-wise in that dreadful mirror than at when I go to bed at night, regardless of how healthy I have eaten.  I truly believe that my stomach starts visibly bulging with every bottle of water or leaf of lettuce or banana I put in it.  I would understand this phenomenon if I was a tiny stick of a girl, but I'm at the higher end of my healthy BMI at 135 for 5'3" and have enough padding that, logically at least, I wouldn't think this would happen.  

Does anyone else feel like they at least look "fatter" at the end of the day than at the beginning?  Can you explain this?  Or suggest ways to fix it (if that's possible)?

i feel this way too, i kind of think its all in my head, or i could be bloated. i dont have advice, but you arnt alone.

Don't worry -- it's natural. I'm substantially larger than you (5'11" and 230), but I know that I generally lose around 2 pounds while sleeping. It's all water weight, basically -- a certain amount of perspiring overnight, urinating in the morning, and that's a couple pounds right there. When you wake up, your body is basically as dry -- and therefore as light -- as you're going to be all day. But it's not real body mass, just water, so don't worry.

(Have you tried weighing yourself at night and again in the morning?)

Oh, I'm well aware that I'm lighter in the morning after I've pottied but before I've eaten.  I make a habit of never weighing myself at night--I don't need that "extra" weight messing with my head.  I just wondered if anyone else felt like they were bloated looking at night.

my tummy is only remotely flat in the mornings before i eat or drink anything.  which is probably for a whooping 10 minutes because i pretty much roll out of bed into a bowl of cereal! oh well, a little curve down there is cute and feminine i think.

It happens to me aswell.

For me, I found out the more sodium I had in my diet in one day is why I looked ''fatter'' before bed time. When I ate practically fruits, salad (w/ chicken), vegetables in one day I looked almost the same as I did in the morning by the end of the day.

So I assume its probably all that sodium we have throughout the day that makes us look bloated at night. Then when morning comes, its all gone and we bounce back.

I totally know what you  mean!

I *almost* like how I look when I wake up and look at my profile in the mirror in the morning! But even 20 minutes later when I've eaten, I can't stand my stomach.

Perhaps it isl ike orientalcircus says, that it is the sodium.  I should lay off of that a little bit - or make sure I'm drinking enough water to keep my sodium at bay. 

Tomorrow is a new day :)

TOTALLY know what you mean!  Happens to me all of the time.  Also, I look the thinnest on Thursday morning, I drink too much on the weekends and have to start all over every Monday!  LOL!

Sodium can be a culprit, so can lactose intolerance. Even swallowing too much air as we eat can cause the tummy to distend - with air. And if you eat a lot of high-fiber foods like beans and veggies, your body generates a lot of gas, which expands.

Also we tend to be taller in the morning than at night - our spines stretch out while we sleep and by evening contract from standing and sitting all day. Posture can play a huge role in this, especially if you have weak ab muscles. If you have poor posture, your belly will stick out as your spine is sagging forward. Doing sit-ups may not really help, because you can build up bulky ab muscles. Better to try something like yoga or pilates for all-over lengthing/flexibility.

yes, everyday. i wake up feeling so good in my clothes and then once i eat lunch it is all downhill from there. when i start dating again we're going to have to do breakfast instead of dinner so he doesn't see the bloated side of me at night.

Ok, so I'm not sure if this is actual fact, but I have heard on a number of occasions that when you are sleeping your body flattens out, so you do actually look thinner for the first 10 minutes are so after you get out of bed, after that, your body kind of settles back into itself. Once again, may not be true, but it makes me feel better.

Haha, I'm right there with you.  I'm like, wtf happened?  It's the nightly fast and morning expulsion that makes you look so good that early in the day.  I almost always hate looking at night!

I totally have the same problem - I pack on nearly 5 lbs from morning to night - and it shows! But it's always gone the next morning - oh well... just be glad we sleep off whatever it is.