SO frustrated

I have done everything right. Yesterday was the picture perfect meal plans for a day and I woke up with a two pound gain today. WHat gives? I'm so frustrated. How can I have gained 2 pounds? I'm going to work on drinking more water today because the only thing I can figure is that I'm retaining water. It doesn't matter how the weight came on over night just that it did. I'm so frustrated and disappointed. I feel like a big fat failure. I had only been to 17 lb loss and now I'm up 2 lbs. I pray that drinking more water today gets me the loss that I gained. I can't believe I've gained 2 pounds, TWO POUNDS. that is ridiculous. I hate my body and it's way of messing with me just when I think I'm doing good.

No one likes to see the number on the scale go up. And nothing anyone can say can completely make that anger go away. But try to remind yourself that those  numbers are not 100 percent accurate! If you KNOW you have been eating right then it is impossible for you to  have gained 2 TRUE pounds right? For me, if I eat a bowl of chili or anything really salty, the scale will go up as much as 4 pounds for a day or even at times 2 (talk about a scare)! But then drop back down and often go even lower because my weight was actually going down but the salt caused me to hold water-not pounds. If this makes sense? It's frustrating, we work so hard to see the number on the scale go down! It never seems fair when it goes up and often is just a mystery. But over time I have come to know certain foods/meals do that to me. I don't avoid them, I just prepare myself for it so it isn't such a shock to me. Increasing your water is never a bad idea, but beating yourself up over it when you have done nothing wrong is! Give it a day or even two and see if your body stabilizes.

Thanks Brandi,

I was up at 3 when I weighed myself. I stayed up for an hour and in that time i drank 24 oz of water. I went back to sleep and slept for two hours. When I woke up again I was down one of the two pounds that I had gained. So I'm hoping if I keep my water high today that tomorrow the weight will come off but boy did that scare me. I don't want to gain. I'm So glad the one pound came off. I can't wait till I'm at goal and I don't have to panic over a pound or two. I can just get back on track till it's off. 

I understand what you mean about having less pressure when you get to goal. While I was at goal for a couple of years it was nice to not worry so much because by then I understood my weight would fluctuate a few pounds often but always go back to about the same. But then for me something happened that I promised myself would NEVER happen and I still am ashamed that I let happen. I not only got comfortable and too relaxed with my eating I lied to myself. I remember when it started. I started to eat a 'few' sweets. I would nervously get on the scale the next day dreading to see some huge gain in weight and often it would show nothing! What? I ate a whole candy bar and no gain at all? How could this be? Then it happened more and more and too this day it seems odd to me. If I even smell a candy bar today the scale goes up!! I started to lie to myself and think maybe this surgery I had really was some kind of miracle. Maybe it had turned me into one of those people we all know who can naturally eat anything and never gain a pound! It did NOT!!! It CAN NOT!!! But by the time I stopped lying to myself that damage of weight gain was done and now I find myself fighting just as hard (almost) as I had to before I had the surgery! This mistake I won't make again. Bad food choices will always be bad and I will always have to be very aware of what and how much I eat.