EDTake2 wrote: »

Next week i will be away on vacation, can I send the weight on Sunday instead of Monday for this one week?

minstrelofsarcasm wrote: »

vmccants28 wrote: »

So, this is likely a mixture of muscle repair and sodium. I'm assuming. I don't know. My body only speaks to me in caveman-esque words, often requiring me to piece together what it wants from context clues.

I feel this on a deep and personal level. I've been likening it to a tantruming toddler and I want to scream at it "USE YOUR WORDS, BODY!!!!" But it listens to me about as well as the toddler does.

minstrelofsarcasm wrote: »

~ Story Time ~

Out of sheer curiosity, I decided I wanted to compare my weight last night to my weight this morning, despite not having an "official" weigh in scheduled until tomorrow morning. I did a lot of physical labor, putting up art in my apartment, repotting plants, walking through Target and exercising my absolutely bulky willpower so I would only spend $130, carrying all my purchases up the stairs rather than using the elevator... I ate a decent amount, because I was hungry, and it wasn't necessarily healthy food I was shoveling into my face.

Reminder - my last weigh-in with the group was 173lbs.

Last night, when I stepped onto the scale (after eating dinner AND an after-dinner snack), I saw 177.4 lbs. That was to be expected. It was hot out yesterday, so my body was holding onto as much water as possible to be able to cool down when necessary. And I had used my muscles to climb up and down a step stool and use a hammer amongst other tools. And I had eaten a lot. And, I'm assuming, none of it had (ahem) passed yet.

All that said, the number was disheartening.

And then I stepped onto the scale before my workout early this morning. 173.2. That's more like it. Did I lose 4lbs overnight? Yes. Yes I did. Was it 4lbs of fat? Absolutely not. Our bodies use water throughout the night and we exhale it along with carbon dioxide and other gaseous chemicals we store. (Fun science fact: carbon dioxide and water are products of burning fat, so the majority of the weight we lose is lost through expelled gases, whether that be from exhaling or... other means.)

I completely forgot to weigh myself AFTER my workout, probably because I was very focused on needing to wash my hair. But I'm assuming the loss would equate to about 0.1 lbs of burned fat (from my estimated calorie burn) + however much I sweat throughout the 45 minutes. The loss wouldn't be noticeable now, as I've had quite a bit of water to drink, and my hair is still wet, and there's food in my stomach. I'm sure I weigh more than I did when I woke up.

So, um, yeah. Weight fluctuates a lot. A LOT. Don't be so hard on yourselves. There's a billion factors at play.

CassieGetsFit2013 wrote: »

Username: CassieGetsFit2013
Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW (Previous Weight): 232.2
CW (Current Weight): 235

Uhm, whaaaat...🤦‍♀️😭

@CassieGetsFit2013 -

This could be for a million reasons! Did you weigh in after eating/drinking? What about salt/sugar consumption from the day before? And if you've been spending more time outside in the sun, or moving more frequently, you could be holding onto water so your body can repair your muscles and skin and so many other things. I highly doubt you consumed nearly 10k extra calories over the past week.

All in all, don't let this discourage you! Reach out to me if you want to talk through this, okay?

melaniedscott wrote: »

I generally use chard for two things... summoning spring minestrone and chickpeas and chard with moraccan spices. It is too late in the season for the soup and I've already made it twice. The second has always been a pain in the kitten to make (calls for crushing garlic, ground spices, fresh herbs into paste in a mortar, which takes forever) but worth it. I cheated a bit (my mini food processor isnt a mortar but it pastes pretty well) and it was SO good. I forgot how much I love it.

@melaniedscott -

So, you're going to share this chard with Moroccan spices recipe, right???

bumpbreakcar wrote: »

I almost wanted to skip this week lol but I figured why not. Sharing it keeps me accountable nothing really changes if I skip or not 😌☺️