This week's weight: 161 lbs.
I gained 1.6 lbs this week. And for the life of me, I don't know why.
This is getting old.
I'm pissed.
I've been meticulous, mucho vigilant and yet ...
Yes, I know it's 1.6 lbs, not 50.6 lbs. That's not the point.
If I had been scarfing down bags of Fritos & chocolate cake, I would understand the gain. I would know the reason behind it.
I'm doing everything right. My clothes are fitting looser.
I'm lifting heavier.
I'm seeing more muscle tone now than I ever have in my whole life. Especially in my arms, which some of you lovies have complimented me on lately.
I tried a hot vinyasa class for the first time today that left me sore all over.
All those things are great. Don't get me wrong.
But that scale. That damn scale. . .
This plateau. This motherfucking plateau. . .
I have to figure it out.
The scale can not measure how much healthier you are. As you build muscle you'll be much healthier and the scale may not show it. I'll bet you have lost inches, and the scale can't show that!
ReplyDeleteYou're gaining mad muscle! If your clothes are fitting loser, than there ya go. Try not weighing for a few weeks maybe? I hate the scale too. REally really.
ReplyDeleteYou said it yourself. Your clothes are fitting looser, which is the point right? Not the number? Your adding muscle that is displacing the fat you are losing and possibly adding more muscle than the amount of fat you lost. Hence the gain. Don 't get frustrated. Keep on. You said it yourself. Your clothes are fitting looser which means your body is getting smaller and in the end it is the way you look and feel and the way your clothes feel NOT THE NUMBER ON THE SCALE that counts. Really. :)
ReplyDeleteWeight Watchers used to have a little booklet about breaking a plateau but they've changed everything now. Sometimes there's no explaining why we don't lose when we've had a really good week.
ReplyDeleteI am certainly not suggesting you get rid of your scale because I would never get rid of mine, but I laughed so hard at this blog post by a lady who did throw her scale out. It might give you a laugh if you haven't already read it. http://www.300poundsdown.com/2013/01/the-unfortunate-demise-of-the-scale.html
Your probably building muscle, and muscle weighs more than fat.
ReplyDeleteBummer.
ReplyDeletehave you taken your measurements lately and done a comparison with past measurements ?
ReplyDeleteIf your measurement are getting smaller but your scale weight is not going down ,you may be trading out fat for muscle . That is a good thing. Have you had a fat percent done ?
Don't beat yourself up Kelly. It happens to us all. It could just be water weight, but I understand the frustration. I expected to see a loss on the scale this week and it went up - not massively but a gain is a gain and it made me feel like crap. Keep doing what you're doing, keep positive and the scale will move in the right direction :-)
ReplyDeleteKelly, this is the point where our bodies are being assholes. I COMPLETELY understand how you feel. We just have to change things up a bit to push through the plateau. We WILL push through the damn plateau. Just stay strong or that scale is going to start wreaking havoc on your mind. Don't let it happen. Push, babycakes, and stay strong. You're doing everything right.
ReplyDeleteStay strong. Keep pushing. The weight WILL come off...your body is just being a douchebag right now. Show it who is boss. ;)
When you do everything right you need to fight for peace of mind, it's not going to happen naturally, you're going to have to develop it just like a muscle. Don't forget: it's winter-bodies naturally [even animals] want to conserve-this isn't a 'get out of jail free card'-let me say that right off the bat, just taking natural laws into consideration, so look for other clues to encourage you that you're making headway: feedback from others, if your clothes are looser, your arms are getting super toned make that what you concentrate on, those are tangible victories! and do as i've learned to do: compartmentalize the 'i don't understand this. WTH am i doing wrong? what's wrong with me?' and the flurry of self-defeating things we tell ourselves- and put it on a shelf. Go to your 'mind over body' frame and choose to say 'damn i look good- i don't care what the scale says today- i can't understand it, but i have nothing to punish myself for'. get dolled up, take a photo- put it next to the one of the day you decided to change your life. seriously-fight fire with fire. Control your mind and the emotion when this happens and you know you've been sooo good. [this doesn't work when we know we're guilty]. We know weightloss is not just changing a number on the scale, it's about changing our total perception of ourselves, breaking bad emotional habits, learning to handle unfairness from the scale, how we react when we're disappointed and choosing to decide for peace of mind and keep going- don't even blink when something doesn't make sense. show yourself who's boss-wear your hair down, put your lipstick on, listen to some fun/sexy music and tell yourself: 'you've come a long way, baby'.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever had your body fat percentage measures?
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