Daily Maintenance Weigh In - Friday, Apr08/11

I am just so afraid of becoming as ostrich again.  I will not let it happen this time.  Thank you for the support it really does help me feel better.

 I know where you are coming from.  I almost flipped out today.  They are trying out new health and wellness things at work.  So they are testing 3 different machines that do weight, BMI, blood pressure, etc.  So a few of us ladies at work decided to go try them out and give some feedback.  Note...I typically don't weigh myself every day, just do a few times a week.  

So, I tried the fist machine and it told me I was 9.5 lbs more than I was the last time I weighed in.  I thought "Holy crap" and I almost lost it right there.  But I kept my composure.  Since we were all trying all the machines out, I went to the next machine not saying a thing to anyone.  I was relieved when the next 2 machines came back with my normal weight range.  Just to be sure, I just weighed myself when I got home thought...hey had to be sure.

Whew....what a stresser.

Wow!  I can totally see how that would freak you out.  I can only imagine the things you were saying to yourself as you stepped off that first machine (may it burn in hell). I am so relieved for you that you were able to find the truth right away.  It would have been really horrible if you had to wait until you got home to find out you were just fine.  Big time hugs to you.

Elina, this pound or whatever will disappear as mysteriously as it appeared. You probably can't think of anyting you did to cause this and i suspect its all complex factors that any one or two days actions don't control. I go up and down the same couple of pounds and i think we all do and yet there is nothing i can attribute that fluctuation to in terms of eating or activity. its jus****er, contents of your guts or whatever. so just do what you always do and it will resolve. One of these days I am going to call the new lapsf dietition and ask why these fluctuations occur when there is no way the calories consumed could cause a pound gained. Have you stuffed yourself with 5500 extra calories in the past couple of days? I doubt it but thats what you would have to do to have a real gain of 1.5 lbs. Anyway, be vigilent as it will make you feel in control but i bet this little blip drops off pretty soon. Diane

You are almost certainly right, however the last few times it did not disappear without a few days of effort on my part.  I think most of it is sodium, but I have a feeling that if I just took my eye off of it for a month or two, it would be closer to 10 lbs., and that would be a bit more than just sodium.  I feel a need to stay vigilant with it, maybe someday I will learn to just relax and go with the flow and trust that it will settle in the right place, or maybe this is for life.

Hi Elina,

I get it, keep it under control...  but I just had an idea.  You know how you love that magic number of 103.? whatever it is...  rather than fluctuate from there, and getting a pound or two up from there....  why don't you lose down to 100 or 101 and fluctuate up to 103 rorm there...  Rather than 102 - 105.... does that make sense?

Just an idea...  I commend you for not letting it get out of hand.  I am happily and easily maitaining at 148-150 ish... but I really prefer to be back where I was at my lowest at 142-145...  Some day, I will get back on the bandwagon and go down to 140 lbs and nto allow myself to go over 145... but right now, I am happy here, and wanted to stop the madness and take a bit of a break.

Big hugs, honey, I get it!

Cindy

Cindy, I love you.  Know I mean really, this is true love.  :)  Sometimes you guys just move me to tears.  I feel like no body else in the whole world would understand my thinking.  I would feel totally alone even with my great friends and husband, if it wasn't for you.  I don't know if you will ever really know how much your support and friendship means to me.  People say, oh it's just the Internet, it's not real, well it is VERY real to me.  I feel your caring and support all the way from the other side of the world.  It takes my breath away to know I am not alone in this.  As far as your idea to go a little lower, hm... I am going to have to think about it, I am not sure it is so easy to pu**** past the 103.  But I could try and see how it feels.  It is 4:30 here in California now, and I have been really good all day.  I am feeling strong and in control today so I think it will be another good eating day.  I really hope the scale cooperates and doesn't give me a heart attack in the morning.  I know I am doing almost everything I can do (with the exception of exercise) to make it move.  If I have to, I will do that too. 

I think you are doing the right thing by just hanging in there and not gaining for now.  You will get your second wind when you are ready and pu**** down to your 142-145 range.  I have always noticed that it is much easier to start at certain times over others.  I thing hormones might have something to do with it or just less stress in our lives.  You will pick the right time and do it, until then you are in a very good place.  You are not hiding from reality and that is the most important thing.  As long as you are maintaining, all is good. 

Thank you my beautiful friend,
Elina

Elina...you go girl!!!  I believe you are absolutely doing the right thing by watching that scale like a hawk.  My God, after everything we've all been through it is wise to be fully aware of our new bodies.  After all, we are not used to this skinny business.  There may be some who take this less seriously, but I know I am not one of them.  I went to a local support group meeting last weekend and I could not believe the attitudes of some of these people...totally unaware of what they're eating and don't weigh often at all.  And these people were all 1 year out and under.  I was shocked that they just did not seem to care about their weights or didn't have any nutrition knowledge whatsoever.  I'm sorry but that will never be my way and I know it's not yours either.  Good for you.

Laura

Thank you Laura.  Have you noticed there is a theme to people that get to and stay at goal, whatever that goal is for them, and that is personal responsibility.  I have a hard time when I read or hear about people who think this surgery will cure obesity.  I think it will definitely help you lose about 50 lbs. if you are a lightweight or maybe even 100 lbs. if you are heavy, but getting to goal and maintaining it seems to be at least 60% us.  Now I know this is not true for everybody, and I am a bit jealous of the lucky few, but most of us have to make a lifetime commitment to this.   It doesn't mean starving yourself or exercising like crazy, it just means finding out what you need to do to maintain at your goal for you and being willing to do it for life.  It means being willing to change what you are doing if it is not working or taking advice from people you respect and keeping a watchful eye on the scale or the fat percentage or your jeans size or whatever you chose to measure maintenance with. 

121 and holding   diane