Whaaa??? I thought I did good???

Today is my weigh-in and I always weigh at home in the mornings as well as at tops.  I've been addicted to the scale this week and now I'm a little upset.  I weighed this morning and I'm showing a huge gain!  All this week I was losing. I had gotten down to 295 even 2 days ago. Yesterday I was 295.5.  When I weighed this morning I'm 299 even.  What in the heck?????  It doesn't make a lick of sense!!  I even felt heavy this morning when I woke up.  Nothing about yesterday was all that different.  For breakfast I had a sausage, egg & cheese wrap from subway with black olives, salt&pepper, and pickles on it with about 1/2 tbsp of mayo.  I had a 100-cal pack of oreo crackers for a snack. For lunch I had a 6" Subway club with tomatos, black olives, pickles, lettuce, about 1tbsp mayo, and salt&pepper and their 35 calorie apples.  No afternoon snack, just wasn't hungry. For dinner I had 1 beef spare rib, 1 hamburger pattie and about 1 to 2 cups of this concoction of ramen noodles, ground beef and broccoli. Later I had a banana about 8pm. I'll admit that dinner probably was a little much food but the rest of the day wasn't that bad and the rest of the week was great. I had a really good week!  Argh!  The wife and I did a very fast lap around the mall in addition to the other walking we were doing while shopping last night. I had 8700 steps for the day.  What the CRAP???? What went wrong??  Do I have a huge friggin honker of a turd in there somewhere?  Was it too much sodium??  Should I fast today? Too late for that I had a 100 calorie granola for breakfast. (I have a confession there, I am punishing myself for the gain by not eating a correct breakfast.) Gah, I don't normally beat myself up about the gains because I always know what I did wrong. This time I'm at a loss. last Wednesday I did a fast 2.5 mile walk as well. I just KNEW I was gonna go into tops today lighter and win some marbles and now this. How the hell did this happen?  Gawd this is what drives people to WLS. At least weight-loss with WLS is consistent!

It happens. It really does. I guess you really can't lose EVERY time. So this means next week you will have a good loss. Just keep doing what you're doing. Or maybe you need to add or subtract something, because your body is getting used to what you are doing now. Either add in some more exercise, or maybe cut out or add some other kind of food? Just a suggestion.  :) Hang in there!!!!!

I wanted to do more walking this past week but it was raining Thursday, Friday, Saturday and part of Sunday.  I hate it when it rains like that. It totally screws me up for walking.  This weekend it's supposed to rain again.   Adding more exercise is about the only thing I know to do. Outside of avoiding sodium I don't know what else I can do.  Oh well.  I'm thinking I may still show a loss at tops though. At least a pound.  We'll see.   There is good news though!  I got a call back yesterday about my interview last week.  Evidently it went as well as I thought it did because I got the job!  This is really good news because I'm back in Charlotte and this gives me one helluva raise!  The only drawback is it's uptown and I'll have to pay parking. There's a positive to that as well. The closest available lot is about 3 blocks away. :) That means more exercise w/o having to call it exercise!

 "Adding more exercise is about the only thing I know to do. Outside of avoiding sodium I don't know what else I can do." chris - we know there is a lot more you can do to make your prorgam more consistent and predictable, but you say you don't want to do those things   (i.e. - measuring, writing stuff down, figuring out the true nutritional info for what you're eating, working with substitutions etc)  its a long, slow learning process that will have lots of ups and downs....

I now keep a food journal and I measure most of my meals.  I'm still not counting the calories on fitday.com or anything but I am at least keeping track of what I eat and how much I eat.  If it fits in a measuring cup, I measure it. For the most part I am pretty good at remembering to do this but sometimes I forget.  Haven't started weighing things yet though.  And of course I don't bring my cups when I go out to eat at subway. :)   It's a start right?   

 Congratulations on the job Chris!!!!  As far as the gain goes....it happens to all of us, jus keep on moving, don't let this be one of those roadblocks that you can't get over.  I was reading your blogs this morning and you seem to be like me.  When you screw up once you're like when I've already messed up today, might as well take the day off.  When we participate in the train wreck it takes awhile to get back on track.  I know last week when mom was in the hospital, it was hard to eat right, and even harder to get my exercise in.  So now I'm dragging my feet saying I'll do a mile tonight and make it back up to 2 by the week-end.  I just got to work through the pain and DO IT!  Just take this and say, I'm going do better next week, and you will!! Keep on keeping on, we need your humor here. Hey thanks, I just inspired myself to do better too! LOL

I know, I know..  It just makes me mad because I thought I did great this week and I have nothing to show for it.

Sounds like a fair amount of sodium in that food plan yesterday!  (added salt to your food, subway, ramen, especially) AND trying to lose weight SUCKS - if it were as easy as we want it to be, there would be no such thing as a fat person.

I bet you drop that excess water weight by the next time you weigh in.  Hang in there, my friend!!!!!  PS:  i better freakin have lost today is my weigh in, too. Knockin my brains out this week.

 

 

One word, Chris.  Salt.  Your food yesterday had a lot of sodium.  Now I know you don't have monthly cycle water retention to worry about like women do, but I'm sure men can retain water as well.  Here are all the high salt things in your post--sausage, black olives--twice, pickles--twice, salt and pepper twice and ramen noodles are very salty as well.  Don't worry about the scale, I bet it is just a lot of water.  Drink plenty of water and lay off the salt and you should be back down to where you were before.  It might not help in time for your tops weigh-in tonight, but by tomorrow or the next day you should be ok.  I tend to eat a lot of fruit and NO salt the day before any of my "official" weigh-ins.  Hang in there.

Gawd why does the good stuff have to hurt you so bad??????????????????????   ****** ME OFF!  ARGH!    @(*@$*(#$*)@#)(RU @ )U@$)*@$ )*@$ _)&*@$_ *&@$ *()$@&*(@ $_*@$*()&#R%)(&@#!*()$Y (*)#$()*& )R(* $ *(#$(#R% ()Y(DF HLSDJH(*D FY@&*()$YYYGVF( E$*(YP* Y()@$#*()YSDUIOH@*(#$P)@# $*P#($*Y#RG%*) $Y*)@    SALT! That's what my wife said too about the salt. She said I probalby went overboard with the ramen's. :)  I love salt. It's just not fair!  Salt makes everything better.  Perhaps I should try a substitute. It probably makes you retain water too. Still pissed...