In the words of Ronan Keating, life is a rollercoaster. Yesterday, I was getting praise from a doctor about my weight loss, 40lbs in less than 3 months. I was buzzing. Today, I feel like crying. I’m up 0.7lbs from the last weigh-in. 406.7lbs. It’s been nearly a week since I last weighed myself, I’ve tracked my calories every day, I’ve been sensible with what I’ve eaten, I’ve worked hard at the gym, I’ve made sure to be getting out for a walk with Darby, even on Friday which is our non-gym day I made sure to do a long walk with Darby to make sure I got a decent bit of exercise in. I feel like I’m doing everything right but I’ve gained. What the hell?
I’m trying really hard to tell myself that there is a logical reason for not losing weight, for actually gaining. I’ve worked hard at the gym so I will have had some muscle gain, I hope. There will also be some inflamation and water retention. I know the likelihood is it is these things that have made the number on the scale go up, and there surely is some fat loss behind that number somewhere, but….damn it why couldn’t that number go down.
Now I have to make sure to not let this derail me. I’m sat here trying to decide what to have for breakfast and right now all I want to do is load up Just Eat, find some greasy spoon cafe and order everything from their breakfast menu, hell let’s add everything from their dessert menu too. I’m not going to do that though, as tempting as it is, instead I am going to boil the kettle and grab myself a porridge pot and stick to the plan.
Going forward I’m going to stick to weighing-in on a Monday morning and resist the urge to step on the scales at any other time. Except for this coming week when I’ll step on the scales on Saturday morning to see if I hit my target of 400lbs before going on holiday. Also, I think I need to up my water intake, so from now on I need to be filling a bottle when I get up in the morning, then again after lunch. Other than that, unless someone can point out what else I might be doing wrong, I’m going to stick to the plan. I know today has annoyed me, but so far what I’ve been doing has been working, I just need to remember that I didn’t gain the weight overnight, I’m not going to lose it overnight either. Next weigh-in on Monday and hope that I’ll see a better number on the scale.
Definitely increase your water intake and remember weight fluctuates for everyone so don’t let it make you lapse.