Feeling extra fat today and worried

You are a healthy body weight! And I bet you have been eating quest bars throughout your weight loss just fine. And I can feel bloated, sad and grouchy every month and the scale always jumps up a few pounds. But I stay on my path and it always goes back down. Well done on your progress.

And.....you have already done a lot work. Congratulations ☺

/start heavy sarcasm re: your **kitten** of a puppy brained co-worker:

I am doomed, doomed, doomed I say! doomed to regain -- oy-oy.
But why you say?
Because I ate a Quest bar, of course.

I mean they used to lie about them being only 190 Cal... they were, like, closer to 250 you know! So obviously doomed to immediate regain!

Because... quest bars are evil! Probably because of the many calories in the no calorie sweeteners they use!

/end heavy sarcasm re: your **kitten** of a puppy brained co-worker!

Everybody has days when they feel fat and depressed. Bodybuilders, supermodels, people who have to carry rocks in their pockets so the wind won't blow them away... everybody. It's just a human condition thing, just like we all have days when we feel lithe and agile.

You ate some junk food, you retained some water, your scale played mind games with you; and it will probably all be better tomorrow (just don't succumb to the temptation to give up and drown yourself in junk food).

kellyjfenn wrote: »

Thank you. It didn’t help the someone at work saw my quest bar and told me “ I will never lose weight eating those “ It made feel like crap hearing that.

kellyjfenn wrote: »

Lol it was so old guy with a belly that told me this. Lol. My thought was, I never even asked him anything. He spoke first and that’s what he said. Kitten of a puppy brained

Sounds like Mr. Puppy-Brained Kitten will never lose weight eating Quest bars - or anything else.
(Or at least he hasn't so far.)

IMO, comments like this, in the guise of "helping" someone lose weight, are especially slimy when men say them to women. I've always felt there an icky sort of sexual subtext to them. It's buried a few layers deep, but that makes it no less slimy. (I may be reading too much into this: the subtext of your coworker's uninvited nutritional advice could be something completely different.)

makkimakki2018 wrote: »

Most likely water weight. I too eat heavy on the weekends and end up gaining about 6lbs each time. Last week i gained 13lbs from a 2 day refeed. I found a method that worked to bring my weight back to normal. They call it a water fast. I ate low calorie meal once a day, made sure to only take in 1000mg of sodium for 5 days. Wait there's more, i drank 2 gallons of water on the 1st 2 days. 3rd day i drank 1 gallon and 4th day i drank 65 ounces. Finally on the 5th day i only drank 40 ounces. My body weight came right off and fell back to my usual weight. It is also noted that cardio helps get rid of that extra water weight. Biking and running are great ways to do this. So maybe you can try this?

Do not try to do this for longer than 5 days it is not sustainable. Its what body builders do to get leaner a week before a competition.

OR you could just do your normal routine for 5 days and most likely the excess water weight will come off anyway. The problem with your method is that you could force yourself into an unnatural low weight and then when you return to normal (slightly higher weight) you will always think you have excess. This might cause you to revisit your completely unnecessary plan over and over again. It is one thing to do it very occasionally as an athlete before a competition it is another to do it to fix something that is not actually broken. Our bodies were designed to retain excess water for various reasons.