Frustrated
Last week I had a loss of 6.7 pounds so I decided to do the exact same things this week. I am drinking the sane amount of water and consuming the same number of calories. I decided to hop on the scales this morning to see how I was doing. BIG MISTAKE!! It is showing that I have GAINED 3 pounds! How is that even possible??? I feel discouraged, frustrated and defeated. Oh yeah. I feel fat too.
I feel for you, sister! One thing I have learned about my body is that as much as *I* love routine, my body does not. Keep up the great work though! It will come off if you keep at it. I am also pre op and pre op for the foreseeable future. I'm praying my work pool wins the lotto! I figured the other day that even if we "only" win a single million, it's a pay out of $43K. I'd been in Mexico in no time!
HW: 361 CW: 337.8 Goal: To come off most of my meds
Scales can be our enemy - sometimes they make you feel like a failure when you're not.
Keep doing what you've been doing and the weight will drop. I have a digital scale and it drives me crazy - if I weigh myself on one side of the kitchen, and then move the scale to the other side of the kitchen, the read-out will differ. Morning vs. evening your weight goes up and down. One week you might lose 6.7 pounds, and the next week nothing - but you'll lose inches. 6.7 pounds is a lot in one week - don't expect that every week. The weight gain could be fluid build-up.
Chart your weight loss, and over time you'll see a pattern - big loss one week, no loss the next week, a gain, etc. -- but over time, it will show you're losing weight.
Don't get discouraged.
Still learning. Currently in pre-op stage.
