So today marks 4 weeks on the elimination diet and it’s also weigh in Monday. I really hoped for this month to be different. I was shocked last week when I started seeing signs of ovulation I was staying down and thought maybe this month will be different.
So Saturday D and I had a cake tasting and he took me out to dinner. While our eating was not the best I didn’t eat an insane amount of food. In fact I had to take like three small boxes from the cake tasting. I just couldn’t eat it. For dinner we had some yummy Tai food!
Naturally, on Sunday I weigh in and I am up like ALOT. D was up like 3lbs which was a given. Our bodies wasn’t use to the extra sodium and such. But then I weigh in this morning and I am up 10 full pounds from Saturday. On Saturday I got so super excited because the scale said 292 🙂 I thought hey I might actually reach 290 by Monday.
Uh, no scale is 302 just ONE pound under what I started 4 weeks ago. Now, this morning my body is telling me that Ovulation is occurring for sure. With that I do know I gain. AF is expected next week. I just don’t get it though. 10 pounds I always gain like 10lbs. I get we ate not so great on Saturday but one day shouldn’t cause me to gain 9lbs (I was up 9lbs the very next day).
I also logically know that I can’t gain 9lbs of fat in one day. That still doesn’t make the process any less annoying. BUT it’s okay I guess….. I will just ride this week and continue to eliminate foods and drink, drink, drink my water so that I can hopefully loose this water weight. Maybe, next week I will see my 290! Trying to stay optimistic this month…. sigh….
Yes, that amount of gain is frustrating! It’s like taking two steps forward and three steps back… this happened at the beginning of my WW journey ,but persistance paid off and little by little the weight came off….Keep up the positive attitude and go back to what worked!
OMG it’s annoying. I seriously don’t know how to get my body to stop this. This is what it keeps doing. Even given the food alone, I know that I gain up to 10 or so during ovulation which sucks. The problem is it usually takes me like 2 weeks to lose it which then means by that 3 rd week PMS is back again which then means another 10lb gain essentially causing me to not lose at all once again. It’s a cycle that won’t stop. It’s new too (like the past two years new) my body was never this bad. I am pretty bummed that everything I did for the past month is already back. I haven’t been able to get under 290 in a year in a half. It’s almost like my body physically won’t let me.
This is so hard and frustrating and while my numbers are smaller the weight loss this time was incredibly slow compared to times in my past… I just gained 3lbs after starting workouts and going high protein…That was after losing that same amount in 4 days… Weigh in Day is tomorrow… I feel like I just can’t win and get back to my preholiday weight… I did go out to eat for Valentine’s Day but didn’t over indulge…Just don’t allow that damn scale to ruin your day or beat yourself up over it…
I actually stopped working out for a while because I couldn’t seem to lose at all while working out. So I looked back at my calendar (I track my weight pretty much daily to see changes) and it seems 12 days before AF I shoot up to about the same weight I am now. No matter my eating at the time it’s almost an exact 10lbs and each month was on the 12th day before and what is today? 12 days before AF is due. You kidding me? There has to be something that stops this because this here is nuts. I can’t go each month busting my butt to lose weight to gain 10lbs every month undoing everything.
I go up 3lbs monthly which is tough enough… Losing 10lbs is hard and to gain it back repeatedly has to be very discouraging… I wish I had some advice, but intstead all I can offer is compassion!
I’ll totally take compassion.