My mantra is "this is a marathon, not a sprint. this is a marathon, not a sprint." I tell myself all the time. I've posted it here even.

Mostly, I'm willing to be patient. I really am. And when I screw up - make poor choices on food, skip my exercise - I'm willing to take my lumps.

But when I eat well and get my exercise in - when I'm operating at greater than a 1,000 calorie per day deficit - then I don't like to take my lumps at all. I DON'T LIKE THESE LUMPS!!!

I was out of town this week again. I had my GoWearFit on, I exercised, I logged every friggin' bite of food. I should have lost. But the scale read up 1.5 pounds today.

And I'm pissed about it.

So I keep reminding myself "this is a marathon, not a sprint. this is a marathon, not a sprint.

It should make sense. A 3,500 calorie deficit should be a pound of loss, not a 1.5 pound gain. Blah.

Edited August 7, 200916 yr by LindaD

Those lumps do stink but you are right....it's a marathon! And believe me, it will all catch up with you and you'll have a "wooshie!" Doesn't that just sound fun? Now keep up the great work - it sounds like you are doing amazing!!!

I seem to have a wooshie about once a month - I'll keep steady or gain a bit, then all of a sudden, I'll be down 4 lbs. Whoosh...!!!

:-)

Thanks for the encouraging words Jennifer,

I am also up .6 this week. I know it could be Water weight etc.. but to me it still means no real weight loss.

I hate this part. I know it's how it woks but I still don't like it.

Hang in there everyone.

Well, at least today my number was back where my ticker says it is. So that's something.

I still don't understand how a person can have a calorie deficit of more than 1000 calories per day and not lose. And I'm not under-estimating my food - if anything, I'm over-estimating because I want to be sure that I'm counting properly. I'm also not over-estimating my activity - I bought this GoWear Fit armband and it keeps track of all of that - activity, vigorous activity, how many steps I take per day, etc. From that, it estimates a number of calories burned that is said to be something like within 8% accuracy.

The band is doing what it's meant to do - it's keeping me eating a very small amount of calories per day - less than Jenny Craig would have me on. I am doing what I'm supposed to do - I'm tracking every bite, I'm exercising almost every single day. My body isn't cooperating.

It will happen, though. I know the things I am doing are right and good so I'll keep doing them. I just wish the results weren't so slow.

I hear ya, Linda! I just ignore the little fluctuations because they usually are gone in a day or two. Who knows how much Water our body is retaining that day, perhaps we had more sodium one day than the last, maybe it's just a little glitch in the scale (ever weigh a 2nd time and it's a different number?), etc. And one day, you'll get on the scale, and it will show something like 3 lbs. lost when you just ate pizza. Go figure!

Look at the big picture. I have to remind myself of the same darn thing. You are doing fabulous. :wink2:

I would not worry about the day to day wiegh since Water has a lot to do with the changes. I would weigh myself when I went to doctors for a check up. I would check everyonce in a while on a scale but I wanted the doctors office to be the offical since all scales are differant. I once had 2 weigh in at doctors the same day and I was off like 5 lbs. so they had to find another scale. Glad to see everyone doing well. I will be 2 years in Sept. and now iam holding at 175 which is great. Been many years since I have been at that.

Chris

Thanks for talking me off the ledge. :lol

I did get that whoosh this morning and have updated my ticker. I am now at 34.9 on BMI, which takes me out of the 'severely obese' category for the first time in nearly a decade. And I'm at 70 pounds gone.

So today I am happy.

And Chris, you are right - at the VERY least, I should avoid the scale for a few days after I return from a business trip. Because the reading I get is never right - it's not true weight gain. I suppose that I've gone without a scale all during the trip and I'm anxious to make sure I didn't screw up, so I climb on. But this is a case where it does cause me negative anxiety, so perhaps my rule should be that I get on the scale 2 days AFTER I get home.