I'm about to say eff it all and eat ALL the ice cream!

Go on then. Give up. Eat it all. Eat extra. How will that make you feel? Sick, bloated - and still miserable?



Or have what you actually want. Which could be just a little bit, you'd be surprised how little ice cream can satisfy you if you're eating to enjoy it and not to punish yourself or tell everybody around you that you're feeling grumpy.


Deliberately doing that is the equivalent of going and smacking yourself in the face repeatedly. It's pointless and only hurts you, nobody else.

Just plan your meals and keep going. Start again with the next meal. It's not the end of the world, after all. Or the end of eating appropriately. But leave yourself space for alcohol and Ice cream. Otherwise you'll feel deprived and add that onto a tough day, you'll get another blowout. And another. And another.


It's a couple of pounds. It could be fluid retention. It could be you've taken your eye off the ball a bit. Whatever. Is this the time to give up or to accept that glitches occur and get on with it - or chuck away all the effort you have made to lose those twenty odd pounds in the first place?


Your choice.

Please don't give up! Try adding 200 calories to the mix per day. You might not be eating enough food. You do have to eat to lose weight and starvation mode is not a myth. You can do this!

It sounds like you just upped your exercise since summer break has started. If this is the case, you are likely retaining water due to the exercise. When you first start exercising after a long break, or significantly up the intensity, you generate microtears in your muscle fiber. Your body treats this as an injury (it is part of normal musclebuilding) and retains water as part of the inflammation response. This water weight can balance or even offset any loss from fat (water is quite dense, particularly when compared to fat) and usually takes 2-3 weeks to go away. At that point, your body will adjust to the routine and stop retaining the water. You usually see a large drop at that point as you stop retaining. A tape measure is going to give you much better measurements than a scale. I've been doing Insanity for two week and haven't lost a pound, but I have lost almost and inch off my waist. Judging by the scale, I'm failing. Judging by body measurements, I'm getting great results. Don't let it derail you.

Alcohol dehydrates you. That's what I bet it is; you're getting the fluid back on board.

This is so true! Most likely water weight. You've come so far, this is just an obstacle in your way.

First, eat the ice cream.

Second, keep working hard.

I'm almost in the same position as you. lost 25lbs. last two weigh-ins more frequent than usual (my bad, prolly shoudn'ta done that) showed slight increases in scale numbers. without a vacation to focus on my angst led me to take an action, in particular having my body fat and BMI looked at. i got a whole bunch of numbers that are confusing enough for me, much less to explain to someone but bottom line my body fat % is down. I found out that my body has been changing from the inside even if it's not showing lately on the outside. I previously had very showy results and then suddenly not so much. Or actually it could just be that I was really gung ho, didn't expect much, saw something, and then now expect it everytime I turn around, which is not really very realistic is it?

So I'm going back to square one of putting in the hard work and the counting and being patient and spaced out with the weigh in's and then seeing what surprises come up in awhile when I go weigh again, in a week or two at least.

Eat your ice cream, stop when your full/satisfied, log that, adjust your daily cals and do whatever damage control needs to be done to make room for that yummy sunday. Enjoy it, it sounds delicious.

Eat your ice cream and enjoy it, you've earned it. Then consider taking a break and eating at maintenance for a week or two before continuing on a deficit.

Eat your ice cream and enjoy it, you've earned it. Then consider taking a break and eating at maintenance for a week or two before continuing on a deficit.

^this

Don't give up, hang in there ,you have all of our support

You're 5lbs away from goal. You really want to give up NOW? The body is a funny thing, it doesn't always do what we want it to do when we want it to do it, on the timeline we want it done in. You've increased your exercise, you're probably retaining water from the change/ increase to help repair muscles and have your body adapt to the positive changes you're making to it. If you want ice cream, have it, especially if it soothes the mind. It's not going to be the straw that breaks the camels back in this scenario, but if you quit, you really will undo all of the work, which would be a shame. Keep going and good luck!