GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

Lmns218

I am here literally in tears right now!!!! So Friday is officially my weigh in day....so I ate foods high in sodium last week and put on 8lbs!!!! By Wednesday it was all off save for .2 lbs so I figure by today I would actually see some weight loss right? WRONG!!!! I see another 4lbs on the scale!!!! This is utterly frustrating!!!! This always happens. I lose weight and then after about a month I stall or gain!!!! Granted, I see now that I have a HRM that I was overestimating my calories, but if my TDEE or whatever is 2400-2800 depending on the site, I am still eating at a deficit, I am still exercising 6 days a week and nothing!!!! I mean, my clothes don't even fit differently. I lost a few inches, but nothing significant. This is frustrating!!!! I know those people on weight loss ads that lost weight so fast, or are very successful are exceptions to the rule (as you see Results not Typical in fine print) but why can't I be an exception to the rule? Am I doomed to stay in this fat body forever? I mean, this is ridiculous!!! I am so utterly frustrated right now!!!! I don't want to give up because I don't want to GAIN....but I want to see some results of all this hard work I am doing!!!! GGGGRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

lauren3101

It is hard to help as we have no details of what you are eating or your current stats and exercise regime. Open up your food diary and we can see what is going wrong.

billsica

Girl,
You need to get to the gym and start lifting heavy.

cowboyfanje

One other thing to consider is your scale, how accurate is it, do you know? I would step on my old scale, and it would say 210, I would get off, reset it, get back on and it would be 214, then it could be 207... all in the span of 2 minutes. I also put something on it when I knew the exact weight (I used multiple diving weights where I knew the exact amount was 25 lbs), you can use anything else that you have a known weight of over say 20 lbs to get a valid reading.

Long story short, my scale was way off. I went out and bought a digital weight watcher's branded scale, and now my measurements are exact...

So test that out before you beat yourself up for such sporadic differences.

Good luck.

daveymac1

Girl,
You need to get to the gym and start lifting heavy.

Do you even lift?

BeachGingerOnTheRocks

Without seeing anything in your diary, I'm going to take a guess that you're eating more than you think you are.

Do you weigh everything you eat? Do you measure condiments and dressings correctly? Are you using a digital food scale in grams?

UsedToBeHusky

Sometimes water and hormones rule the scale, especially if you are a woman. Check the measurements and don't let it bother you.


Seriously... depending on where you are in your menstrual cycle, you could gain as much as 5 lbs in water.

DMicheleC

Are you eating a lot of carbs, if so try cutting back on them, are you eating all what you burn, if not try eating some of those calories. Drink plenty of water to flush your system in case you are retaining water, especially if you are eating high salt. Hope this helps, but keep going I'm sure you will start seeing the result soon, good luck!

CrankMeUp

Without seeing anything in your diary, I'm going to take a guess that you're eating more than you think you are.

Do you weigh everything you eat? Do you measure condiments and dressings correctly? Are you using a digital food scale in grams?

THIS.


will you open your diary?

_meesh_

If you're finding this happens every month, there could be another explanation for it. I know that when TOM is here, my weight goes up a bit with water retention. Generally weight that you gain quickly is usually easy to get off (up one week, down the next). Try tracking the weight gains with your cycle and see if that's the week you're up. If so, try drinking more water...I know it seems counter intutive when you're retaining water to drink more but it does help. Also with the lots of salty foods you need more water to flush it out.

The only other advice I can offer is to make sure you're weighing/measuring things and not just guessing on sizes. Even when you know that 1 oz of cheese is the size of a domino, you might still cut larger than you think (for example).

I hope you keep going, 14 lbs is nothing to sneeze at. Remember the tortoise...slow and steady wins the race.

DragonSquatter

A few things:

(1) If you are significantly overweight and female, you can easily fluctuation 10+ lbs just in water weight. This used to happen to me a lot when I ate really salty foods and had my special lady time every month. I only fluctuate about 5 lbs from it now.

(2) You should be weighing and measuring everything if possible. Getting accurate estimates of your intake will help tremendously.

(3) TDEE calculators are just starting points and estimates. You will have to adjust either up or down accordingly, but make sure you're fixing (2) above first so you know exactly what your intake is.

(4) Patience and consistency are your best friends. Try to set some non-scale goals and focus more on your measurements over the long-term, not the short term. It's not unusual or abnormal to do everything right and still see a lot of fluctuations on the scale. You'll have to learn to roll with it if you're weighing yourself regularly as a progress indicator, or you'll drive yourself completely nuts.

Good luck to you!

ryry_

Would you be open to opening your diary

Lmns218

Add me as a friend and you can see my diary. I know I was overestimating how many calories I burned and yes I do measure and I just bought a food scale as well. No I don't lift heavy. I do a workout regimen that does incorporate weights. I was a couple hundred calories over the past two days but I'm still eating at a deficit. It's not time for TOM. this always happens to me when I'm in a month good. It's frustrating!!!!

lmckillo

Don't believe those weight loss ads...bull****. Just keep, keeping on. Watch your intake, exercise. Calories in less than calories out and you will see results....best of luck

taunto

I weigh myself about once a month. Sometimes 2 or on a rare occasions, after 6 months. So when I do, I gotta make it count. I have to have a ritual.

It all begins days before. I must conquer the water weight demon. What do I do. Drown myself in water. I drink so much water that if I was in Titanic, Leo would be alive. I drink and drink till Kate remembers “oh Leo… theres room for 2 on this piece of wood that I selfishly have been hogging”.

Next, its fiber. Prunes. Fruits. Placenta. I don’t know, I just wanna poop. I eat anything and everything! Eat more carrots than at KY jewelers.

I need to get on the good side of the God. I know what to do. I shouldn’t, but I must. Its for the greater glory of my weight. I must conquer the creepy bro at the gym.

We know this bro. He’s the one that spends 2 hours doing nothing but checking out the girls and working his upper body. And anytime a girl makes the mistake of looking in his general direction, he walks up to them. Creeping them. I must make the sacrifice of creeping the creeper. It must be done. When he walks up to the girl, I grab the weights he’s been lifting and sweating over and start licking them and start rubbing his Olympic bar between my thighs and making eye contact with him. I do it until he leaves the poor girl alone. Small sacrifice to make the weigh scale God happy.

Then the day before the weigh in arrives. The big day. D day. This is the night we conquer all. This is the night we don’t even goto gym in worry of sore muscles retaining water weight. This is the night we pray!

“Dear God in heaven, who pwns the weight scales. You rock. May all the proteins someday belong to you and the curvy girls realize the difference between curvy and chubby. May you pwn our weight scales like Paula Deen pwns butter. Give us this day a number that saves us from water retention, starvation mode and the bulk. And cut me some slack when I act all nub and do the happy dance. You dig it though that its only because I love your help right? Please don’t make me big headed with all the success and make lame posts on the forums when I’m too pissed off at somebody for disagreeing with me. Give me the strength to know the right from wrong and the ability to mock the haters till they send me hate PMs. And if you could keep NSA from spying on my creeper posts, that would be great too.

Amen

PS. Did anyone ever told the Backstreet Boy Why?”

And then I rest. I know what is tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day we dine in hell!

Morning time. 3 years old nephew wakes me up “I want some ice cream!”

“No, not till I fight the battle with scale demon, my boy. Now, step aside as Uncle needs to take a dump!”

With fear and envy in his eyes, the child steps aside and puts on cartoons. I walk into the restroom. Screams of a battle comes from the bathroom, shaking the very foundation of my home.

“HNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!! OH GOD THE FIBER! IT HURTS! HHHNNNNNNNNNGGGGG!!!!”

With the toilet now clogged, I take on the next challenge. I scrub myself in the shower. I scrub so hard that my brown skin magically turns into that pale white girl from Twilight. I need to wash off anything that could add to the weight.

Then the shave. I shave my manly beard and stach. Then the hair. All hair. I’m bald like Michael Phelps now.

Then I get out of the batroom. No towel. Don’t need it. Lay naked and turn on the fan. Air dry myself. Because towel drying might add some weight to me.

Then finally comes the part of weighing myself

“oh God this is it. This is the big dragon boss. Oh God help me!”

2 lbs lost.

freemystery

Breathe. Let it go, get back on the wagon and don't let the scale get you down too much.

Quick side note: My cousin was very sick a few years ago and lost a lot of weight as a consequence. So much that they couldn't operate on her. So the doctors injected her with water... about 28-30lb of water to be exact.

That water took about 6-8 months to come off. You'd be suprised how stubborn the human body can be! Don't give that scale the power to make you lose your motivation because you may not be getting the full story! You've lost 14lb so far so you must be doing something right, keep it up!

nomeejerome

Pretty sure all of this was covered in your freak out threads before and after the 4th of July.......stop weighing yourself everyday.

Lyerin

I weigh myself about once a month. Sometimes 2 or on a rare occasions, after 6 months. So when I do, I gotta make it count. I have to have a ritual.

It all begins days before. I must conquer the water weight demon. What do I do. Drown myself in water. I drink so much water that if I was in Titanic, Leo would be alive. I drink and drink till Kate remembers “oh Leo… theres room for 2 on this piece of wood that I selfishly have been hogging”.

Next, its fiber. Prunes. Fruits. Placenta. I don’t know, I just wanna poop. I eat anything and everything! Eat more carrots than at KY jewelers.

I need to get on the good side of the God. I know what to do. I shouldn’t, but I must. Its for the greater glory of my weight. I must conquer the creepy bro at the gym.

We know this bro. He’s the one that spends 2 hours doing nothing but checking out the girls and working his upper body. And anytime a girl makes the mistake of looking in his general direction, he walks up to them. Creeping them. I must make the sacrifice of creeping the creeper. It must be done. When he walks up to the girl, I grab the weights he’s been lifting and sweating over and start licking them and start rubbing his Olympic bar between my thighs and making eye contact with him. I do it until he leaves the poor girl alone. Small sacrifice to make the weigh scale God happy.

Then the day before the weigh in arrives. The big day. D day. This is the night we conquer all. This is the night we don’t even goto gym in worry of sore muscles retaining water weight. This is the night we pray!

“Dear God in heaven, who pwns the weight scales. You rock. May all the proteins someday belong to you and the curvy girls realize the difference between curvy and chubby. May you pwn our weight scales like Paula Deen pwns butter. Give us this day a number that saves us from water retention, starvation mode and the bulk. And cut me some slack when I act all nub and do the happy dance. You dig it though that its only because I love your help right? Please don’t make me big headed with all the success and make lame posts on the forums when I’m too pissed off at somebody for disagreeing with me. Give me the strength to know the right from wrong and the ability to mock the haters till they send me hate PMs. And if you could keep NSA from spying on my creeper posts, that would be great too.

Amen

PS. Did anyone ever told the Backstreet Boy Why?”

And then I rest. I know what is tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day we dine in hell!

Morning time. 3 years old nephew wakes me up “I want some ice cream!”

“No, not till I fight the battle with scale demon, my boy. Now, step aside as Uncle needs to take a dump!”

With fear and envy in his eyes, the child steps aside and puts on cartoons. I walk into the restroom. Screams of a battle comes from the bathroom, shaking the very foundation of my home.

“HNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!! OH GOD THE FIBER! IT HURTS! HHHNNNNNNNNNGGGGG!!!!”

With the toilet now clogged, I take on the next challenge. I scrub myself in the shower. I scrub so hard that my brown skin magically turns into that pale white girl from Twilight. I need to wash off anything that could add to the weight.

Then the shave. I shave my manly beard and stach. Then the hair. All hair. I’m bald like Michael Phelps now.

Then I get out of the batroom. No towel. Don’t need it. Lay naked and turn on the fan. Air dry myself. Because towel drying might add some weight to me.

Then finally comes the part of weighing myself

“oh God this is it. This is the big dragon boss. Oh God help me!”

2 lbs lost.

*love*

husseycd

bwahahahaha!