Stress and weight gain?
Okay so i’m grasping at straws here.
I stepped on the almighty scale this morning and found that i’m up another pound. WHAT!?
I would be totally lying (or made of stone) if I said this didn’t upset me. Last week, I tracked every morsel that went in my mouth (even bites of this or nibbles of that).
Yesterday, I stepped on the scale and it read, 305. This morning, I step on the scale and it read 308.4. So i’m up 3 pounds from yesterday and a total of four pounds from 3 weeks ago.
February has not been my month y’all.
The *only* thing I can chalk this up to is needing to drink more water?
I have been quite stressed because of the move. The house stuff is up in the air… *again*. In fact, we were supposed to close today… but then fate intervened and now we will close sometime within 10 days…. if ever. So maybe the gain is due to stress?
I need to go to the gym and take this out on the treadmill / elliptical. I’ll be back later on in the morning to write something more cheery.
But right now… I really need to workout my frustration in the gym…otherwise, i’ll raid the fridge. And i’ll take my frustration out on food like it stole something.
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Yes to the drinking more water — I slacked off and picked up some weight and then restarted pushing water and already some of the weight has come off. How’s your sodium intake?
Hitting the treadmill/elliptical is good therapy. I use my treadmill for a psychiatrist!
The weight thing will sort itself out — there’s no POSSIBLE way that you gained that much real weight in so short a time.
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Perfect – work out those frustrations. Double bonus: calorie burn and de-stress. Hang in there Kellie:)
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Oh, girl I’m sorry about the gain. It could very well be water or stress or BOTH. I’ve gained this month and it SUCKS big time. I actually went down two pounds this morning so I think in my case it was stress & sodium intake. Have you been watching the sodium you’re consuming?
Just don’t raid the fridge. Don’t even think about. You’ll feel worse if you do. I like your idea of working it out at the gym. You’ll be fine. You are SO CLOSE to being under 300 I can feel it!!!!
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I love taking my frustration out at the gym. This route is safer for other folks too and it burns the ol’ calories.
Hang in there.
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I’m so glad that I’m reading this post now and I hope that I can offer some bit of advice.
Breathe.
You know your body – or at least you’re getting to know your body. If you followed the healthy guidelines and you watched your points, you *did* lose weight. Maybe it’s not showing on the scale this week and that is okay. It could be because a) you actually gained more than 3 pounds last week but for some reason weighed a bit lighter b) you ate more sodium and are retaining fluids c) you’re weighing a bit heavier this week for some reason.
The scale doesn’t omit the hard work that you did.
As a last note, I had issues (even with WW) when most of my points came from carbs. I know…it should be just about calories and points, but for some reason when I ate heavy carb loads, I just didn’t do well – even if I stayed in my points range.
You can do this. I know you can.
Hang in there.
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