What the heck??????!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry to hear about your scale problems! I just went under 180 to 179 last week and I'm so afraid that when I weigh in tomorrow I might gain back up. I also am frustrated because I've been working out every day for 2 weeks and I'm starting to notice good changes everywhere except around my middle!! I feel like my stomach/love handles haven't gone down at all!! I have been doing plenty of ab excersizes too..soooo annoying!

Your abs are the hardest area to loose weight. Hey at least you guys are loosing. I been on this dang site for 3 months and have not lost a pound. But with drinking all of this water my skin sure is pretty. So it is worth something. lol

2 things to remember tam. 1st is that, it's only 1 week, your body isn't going to conform to the average every week, I.E. some weeks you may lose 2 or 3, some you may lose none or gain 1 or 2. This is just how it is. I know that's not what you want to hear, but it's the truth. There are sooooo many factors involved in calorie burn in your body that, like the chaos theory, take too small a sample size, and it looks like gibberish, but take a larger one (like a month or two) and you see the pattern emerge.

2nd thing I picked up on is this: " I drink tons of water" . While drinking water is most assuredly good and right, it can, and will, give you water weight. That's why most experts agree to set a time of day, and day of week (or day of month preferably) that you weigh in. When you do so, it's best to do it early in the morning, before you eat breakfast, or drink water. Because you want to control the variables as much as possible. There is nothing wrong with water weight, and water is important for flushing out all the lactic acid we build up when using weights or exercising heavily, as well as flushing other toxins and providing a base for cell construction, but it can make you gain up to four or five pounds. So in reality tam, you could actually have lost up to 3 pounds this week, but you just don't know because you had water in your system.

I hope this helps.

FYI: I know "chaos theory" sounds really scientific and dorky, but it's the basic priciple macro-economics is based on. Basically it just means, a single or small sample of something may look random, but when you take a larger group, a pattern emerges (this is overly simplistic, but for our purposes it fits)

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Hang in there!
I can relate: my scale plays nasty tricks on me too :laugh:
Way to go though making all that extra effort just don't give up as this is the time when you just ave to trust that it all works.
Rememer that if you look back over a LONG PERIOD you will see all the good that this method does. The days come and go (and I am definitely a scale junky!) and some days are higher, others are lower, but month by month it works
Thomas

Tam your doing awesomly well, don't let this get you down. My scales have been 'lying' to me this week too, showing a 1 lb gain, (that might have something to do with the alcohol on the weekend )

you are doing great!!!!!!! and as banks says you could well have lost 3lbs

Al
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Keep your head up!!! You have been doing awesome. And of course you know how wierd the body can be, I just quit smoking 2 weeks ago so my scales haven't moved at all in a bit now!! Maybe if your still weighing in once a week cut it in half for the next little while. It would not be cool for you to have come all this way just to get discouraged, We have your back!!!lol

Being sick messes up your whole system, anything could happen.

Sorry thats not a definative responce...

Al

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drinking water helps your body overall, but it's not necessarily a daily thing, depending on how much sodium you had, and many other factors, your body can hold more water from one day to the next. I guess the moral is, once the "easy" weight comes off, your body becomes more aware of the little things like small changes in body chemistry. It is harder to judge via weight alone if you're suceeding as you approach your maintenance weight, that's why things like body fat % and using a measuring tape become so much more valuable.

Hi

I feel your pain..didn't splurge this weekend and was UP .5 pounds....
Keep up the great work!

Kim

That is so true Cobra, that took me awhile to figure out, so I tend to lean towards the tape measure rather then the (cursed) scale. Tamin all your hard work will pay off,best of luck to you and keep your head up,I'm new to this site and I love the support system you have here!!!
Flo;0)

If you do a lot of weight training, then yes, it is possible that your weight may not change at all, or you could put on a couple of pounds.

It depends on your ratio of fat to muscle.

I just hate seeing people get so discouraged simply because they're too focused on what the scale says!

Take a deep breath, STEP AWAY FROM THE SCALE for a few days, and just concentrate on feeling good and doing things that are healthy for your body.

It is such a euphoric feeling when you've gone through a whole day, knowing you were kind to your body all day.

I have found that I feel so much better without all of that junk food in my system. We had an hour-long meeting today at work, and I didn't even start to fall asleep! I'm normally the ones co-workers make fun of because I sugar-crash all the time, right in the middle of meetings.