0% loss this week, which is unsurprising but still confusing.
It's unsurprising because I've been weighing in all week, and watching the numbers bump up or down a little bit, but not moving the way I would expect. So this is actually not bad, considering I was up a pound and a half yesterday.
It's confusing because I've been "in the groove" all week. I've been eating right for the most part, staying under my calorie goal, drinking water, exercising. Normally, I would expect to see at least some loss. (this is one of the reasons I do get on the scale every day--if I saw that number today with no warning, I would have thought the stinkin' thing was broken)
But I have to take into account that enormous loss last week, and that this might just be my body's way of keeping balance. I'm at .56% average loss over the past four weeks.
So I'm going to keep on doing what I need to do. I might not get a walk in today, but I'm going to try. I don't know how my food is going to go, either. I didn't eat breakfast until almost 11AM, which doesn't leave a lot of time to eat lunch or make dinner before I have to run out again.
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OMGosh! Girl, if I didn't know any better, I would think I was reading my own blog. I am having EXACTLY the same situation going on in my journey. I've been eating well all week (except for the wafers, but I remedied/counterbalanced that), exercising faithfully (except for yesterday), drinking more water than usual and my scale has been fluctuating and still showing a 1 lb gain this morning. This is very discouraging and I am quite pissed about it. I haven't had a good weight loss in weeks. Heck, it took me nearly two weeks to lose my last pound. And watching several of my MFP friends dropping weight all week, some even twice this week, just makes me feel even sadder. ;o(
But like you, I've decided to just keep doing what I'm doing and trust that the weight will eventually start coming off again. I need to write my own blog post about this, but I've been too disappointed to do it. At least I'll have it to look back on should times get this tough again.
Thank you for this post, Kimmer! I needed to know that I'm not the only one going through this. Hang in there, girlie! We CAN do this! ;-)
Yeah, that should be WEEK 40!!!
Lynne, the thing for me is this: it's about being really healthy, right? The weight loss is just a side effect, in a way. So even if I'm not losing right now, I still have to do all that healthy junk.
I agree and I will continue to do the healthy things because this is a lifestyle change for me. I hear people say the scale is not that important, but at my size, I beg to differ. It is VERY important that the scale move because 243 pounds (my current weight) is not healthy for any 5'5" woman, no matter what else they are doing.
But like I said, if I continue to do the right things, the weight has to come off eventually. If not, there is something seriously wrong and I'll need to have it checked out. ;-)
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