Describe your Whoosh Fairy visits
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A double dose of prescription movicol aids any stalls for me!0
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TheGaudyMagpie wrote: »I've been logging for 80 days and fluctuating between the same five pounds. I've been doing resistance training and told myself that the scale was not going to be my friend but I was still concerned. Whoosh, those five pounds were gone in two days this week and they've stayed off. I'm still going up slightly after a workout, but I'm staying around that lower mark. I fit into size smaller jeans and shirts this week. My belt is almost three inches smaller too. At 6 lbs total lost, I'm right at the average of .5/week I should be for the amount I need to lose. It just waited to go all at once.
Great news! Weight training requires a whole new kind of patience with the scale. But from what I see in people's pictures, it is the best way toward body transformation!0 -
For me it's the week after the end of my period. I lost 3-5 pounds in 5 days every time... then stopped losing until the next period.
Even now that I've been maintaining for a year, I gain a couple pounds when I ovulate (I have massive ovarian cysts, that might account for it), then lose them again the week after my period. But when I skip a period, I keep the extra couple pounds.
I ALWAYS gained 2Lbs when I ovulated. I assumed it was just hormones, like before ToM.0 -
He's sparkly!0 -
I love that you all understand patiently awaiting the "drop." Now I have a new mental image for it: "patiently awaiting the whoosh fairy." LOVE IT! (Alas, I am also waiting right now...when will she arrive?)0
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Waiting here too - since before Memorial Day. Hopefully she gets to me soon!0
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I guess mine came over the weekend, about 2 lbs off since Saturday. I set up a hidden camera and caught a picture of mine. Somehow not so sparkly. :-/
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It literally just happened today. Once the period is over, off it all comes!! The stinky part is the rest of the month it doesn't move!!!0
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
Oh now if that's the whoosh fairy he is more than welcome to stalk my scale!!!
Muchas Gracias for the mid afternoon hot man pick me up xx1 -
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I dropped down to 187, went up to 189/188 and stayed there for a week and a half...now today I'm 186.
This is why I barely weigh myself. I figure as long as I'm diligent with my logging and maintaining my training schedule, then I'm losing weight. No need to obsess over the scale.0 -
I stalled for like 2 months, then lost over 5 lbs in 2 weeks...stalled another 2 weeks, then lost another 3 lbs in a week...0
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I really need this thread right now!
I just wrote this status on my newsfeed this morning:
"Despite the fact that I feel better and my body looks better, I am getting irritated by the scale! I lost 9.5lbs in one month. That's amazingly good! I realize this is actually normal; that it generally happens at the beginning of your weight loss journey but I'm not gonna lie, the fact that I've only lost 1.3lbs since then (about 2.5 weeks) is very discouraging. Especially since I have lowered my calories and upped my exercise! So I sat down w/ my data and realized that despite the rapid slow down of loss, my overall average is still over 1.5lbs loss a week! That's good news seeing as I had only asked MFP to assist me w/ losing 0.5lbs a week. Some times it takes a sitting back and looking at the WHOLE picture to see how far you've come! So I will keep moving forward and have faith that I will see something more soon. I encourage you to do the same! Have a wonderful day my friends! "
Coincidence? I think not!
Keep the stories (and Hot Whoosh Fairy photos) coming!
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I was like 204 for 2 weeks, then down to 201, then back up to 204 for a week, then WHOOSH, I got down to 1970
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
I like yours better too! Hahahahahahaha!0 -
Bought myself new jeans (29" woooohooo) and they were SUPER tight (sitting was not soooo comfy haha). I put them back in the closet and then decided to put them on 2 days later and it fit way better and the squishy fat at my hips seemed to be gone ...miracles
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The whoosh fairy visited me last night, four pounds down, yay!!!!!!0
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Mine seems to come in 5-6 pound increments. Nothing for 12-14 days, then 5 pounds in 3-4 days. Then rinse and repeat.0
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MamaBirdBoss wrote: »Every woman will gain some bloat before her period and lose it during. I'm down 4.6lbs this week. Most of that, sadly, is water.
My goal for PMS times is generally just not to gain. If I manage not to gain, I'll drop a ton during and right after my period. It evens out.
That's not true.
The whoosh fairy has never, ever visited me...but I don't bloat either.0 -
Thanks for this thread. So nice to know I'm not alone. Another cue for me to be patient. Thanks.0
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2.6 lbs down overnight. Got off the scale, shoved it around on the floor, got back on. Read 2.8. I put in the 2.6. LOL.0
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Is it ok if I change my screen name to Whoosh Fairy?0
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I've been at this about six months and I've lost a little more than 30 pounds so far. For me I spend about 10-15 days averaging around a weight, then I whoosh down about 2-3 lbs and stay there for another 10-15 days. I actually track the stalls and whooshes and make predictions on when my next whoosh will be and how far it will take me. I'm very consistent about what I eat week to week (e.g. I have hibachi chicken on Tuesday for lunch and pizza for dinner on Wednesdays) and how much I exercise. Interestingly enough, my weight loss is fairly predictable. Last week I whooshed down 3 lbs from Sunday to Monday and I've stayed there since. That means I've got about 5-10 more days before my next expected woosh.
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In mid-May I had a whooosh of 5 pounds over 5 days. Couldn't believe it. Bought a second scale to confirm it.
I had been doing a hell of a lot of bicycling and apparently my body decided it couldn't hang on to that weight anymore.
Of course, there's the other side of the coin....just after the whoosh I hit a plateau for about 3 weeks.0 -
MamaBirdBoss wrote: »For me it's the week after the end of my period. I lost 3-5 pounds in 5 days every time... then stopped losing until the next period.
Even now that I've been maintaining for a year, I gain a couple pounds when I ovulate (I have massive ovarian cysts, that might account for it), then lose them again the week after my period. But when I skip a period, I keep the extra couple pounds.
Your cysts aren't going to be that big! You'd get torsion injuries on your ovaries if they were, like someone on too much Clomid.
My cysts were 1-6 pounds when they were removed.0 -
Does anybody else find they're starving the day before a whoosh? I feel like a bottomless pit the day before. I'm convinced it's my body knowing the whoosh is coming and wanting to maintain homeostasis.0
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as for me my weight climbed from 115 to 125 for 2 months ( retaining water from starting exercise) and then all of a sudden I dropped 5 lbs a couple weeks later0
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