Does your body make sense to you?

Awake_Alive

I will never understand mine. Day three of extensive workouts, serious calorie cutting, lots of fruits and veggies....and I am UP 5 pounds. *shakes head*

stephyy4632

is this a new workout? if so your body is mostlikly holding in water its normal with a new workout ruteen

abellante_0205

it may be retaining water. Fruits do have a lot of sugar in them... too much isnt good for you, no matter what kind of sugar it is!

Schwiggity

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Stop weighing yourself every day.

pander101

Yeah like mentioned before, you body will hold 3-5lbs when starting a new workout. By a week or two it will be gone.

Tegan74

I've been retaining water ~ I can tell it mostly in my hands, they swell an make my ring tight on my finger. I'm still waiting impatiently for the water weight to GO AWAY lol.

crobinson53

I weigh myself daily and I've learned that I can't take my body serious.The emotional torture that it inflicts every morning is terrible. Some days, and these day are far and in between, I do actually lose a couple pounds.

When I think I've lost enough to record then I log it in MFP I do it.

My body is a ridiculous mess but I think it may be doing this to me on purpose. Punishment for destroying it with all sorts of crap throughout the years. fml **shakes my head** Don't try to explain this with science. I KNOW my body is just CRAZY!

dad106

It's called water reteintion.. in order to gain 5 pounds in 3 days you would have to had to have eaten 17,500 extra calories.. and I highly doubt that happened. Drink lots of water and it will go away.

minimommy1

What you stated is one reason I stopped focusing so much on how much weight I loss and instead on making right choices.
As long as the scale goes down I 'CHOOSE" to be happy about it. And yes it is a choice. I weighed in at TOPS last night and only lost .20lb. The old me would have been frustrated and gone home and pigged out. But last night I chose to be pleased that the scale went down and that I knew I had made the correct choices during the week. My journey is not with the scale it is to change my body and that means more than weight. It means changing the way I think, the way I eat and the way I live (activity). I believe when I reach the point of being a healthy weight I will have made the changes that make it possible to keep it that way without a struggle because I will have changed my whole outlook and not just a scale.

Awake_Alive

Thank you guys so much. I'm taking my scale to my trainer today and telling him to keep it. It's also really good to know I am not alone! I am going to continue on and just do the next right thing. Thanks again everyone!

Liquid741

in the same boat...weight 203, and now weigh 206....my workout hasnt changed, my calories are below my goal...but i just cant get below the 200 mark!

kinda at a loss...i do however drink around 3gal. of water per day while at work (steel worker)