How can this be? Usually I am down about half a pound the day after the weigh in, but today when I got up and weighed myself I was actually two pounds up. This can not be possible. I am so religious about weighing myself in the morning, and I have certain expectations when I get on the scale. Surprisingly, I had expected a weight gain when I got up, but I didn't believe it until I got on the scale. Yup two pounds up.
Unbelieving the scale, I must of gotten on it and off at least a dozen times. I tried re-positioning my feet, my body, I even tried re-calibrating the scale. All for naught it did not change. Finally I leaned against the wall and I got a weight loss, but I don't think that counts.
I don't know why I thought I would be up. I did not eat off program, I swam my normal swim, I drove to and from San Jose, so why did I think I was up in weight, and why am I up in weight? All sorts of things start to go through my head. Maybe I have some sort of cancer that makes you gain weight. Maybe my metabolism is so shorted out that I would have to eat 200 calories to lose weight. Maybe I am doomed to weigh this for the rest of my life, and I can only eat 800 calories to maintain this weight, no matter how much I exercise.
My worse nightmare come to light.
I don't know what I am going to do about this depressing phenomena, but I do know that I will stay on the program. A blip? I had just finished writing about fake weight gain? I can't soothe myself with this being a fake weight gain, because I have disproved that theory, so for whatever reason I gained two pounds. Now I have to lose two pounds, which is about all I am losing in a week, to get back to where I was on Thursday night. Sometimes things just are not fair.
Unbelieving the scale, I must of gotten on it and off at least a dozen times. I tried re-positioning my feet, my body, I even tried re-calibrating the scale. All for naught it did not change. Finally I leaned against the wall and I got a weight loss, but I don't think that counts.
I don't know why I thought I would be up. I did not eat off program, I swam my normal swim, I drove to and from San Jose, so why did I think I was up in weight, and why am I up in weight? All sorts of things start to go through my head. Maybe I have some sort of cancer that makes you gain weight. Maybe my metabolism is so shorted out that I would have to eat 200 calories to lose weight. Maybe I am doomed to weigh this for the rest of my life, and I can only eat 800 calories to maintain this weight, no matter how much I exercise.
My worse nightmare come to light.
I don't know what I am going to do about this depressing phenomena, but I do know that I will stay on the program. A blip? I had just finished writing about fake weight gain? I can't soothe myself with this being a fake weight gain, because I have disproved that theory, so for whatever reason I gained two pounds. Now I have to lose two pounds, which is about all I am losing in a week, to get back to where I was on Thursday night. Sometimes things just are not fair.
You are right - things are not always fair. The word "fair" is found in the Internal Revenue Tax Code about 320 times; about 315 of these times is in the phrase "fair market value" (the others are like Fair trade, etc.), so life is not always fair. I'm blaming the weight gain on the phase of the moon - the moon was on the other side of the earth & was PULLING you down - thus the 2 pound gain. Well, maybe just a lot of water. Love, Whitemop
ReplyDeleteWell, actually I experience the exact same thing too. I know that I'm going to weight more and I do, even though I've logged my calories and exercised, and should be in a deficit. I think it could be related to our hormones or biorhythms... things we don't know about going on in our bodies. But I think that it will re-adjust in a couple of days and that it is not a true weight gain...but it is totally demoralizing!! Hang in there and wait it out.
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