I weighed myself again this morning, not that I expected a change, and I weighed 162.6. That means I gained 1.2 lbs in the past two days and it means I've only lost 1.5 pounds in 18 days. I don't understand. It's frustrating since I'm eating healthy and exercising regularly for one and a half months. As I've said before, the last time I did this I lost fifteen pounds in 2-3 weeks. I don't remember the specifics but I do know I lost almost thirty pounds in 60 days. I would be happy if I lost even half of that this go around but instead I've lost only one pound. It just doesn't make sense. I am still going to stick with it since I made the decision to permanently change my diet but it's very de-motivating (not sure if that's a word) working hard and not seeing results.
Yesterday I decided to use My Fitness Pal more regulary to keep track of what I'm eating to make sure I'm not going over my daily calorie allowance. I was more focused on just eating healthy before and didn't want to focus on counting every single calorie. Besides, I've done this before so I was pretty sure I was right around my daily calorie limit at the end of each day. But now that the f'ing scale isn't moving I am going to start using My Fitness Pal again.
Yesterday I logged my calories throughout the whole day and after dinner I saw I had 165 calories remaining. I decided to have two sherbert pop-ups for dessert. I ended the day with only 5 calories remaining (consumed 1195 calories out of my 1200 daily allowance). I ended up having massive cravings AGAIN so I had a tiny bowl of cereal which worked. That made me go over my daily allowance by 120 calories.
Weighing myself sporadically is driving me crazy. Because of this I decided that the only two options would be to stop weighing myself entirely or to start doing weekly weigh-ins again. At this point it would be really hard to not weigh myself anymore. I feel like I need to see the scale start to go down before I could give up on weighing myself. Otherwise, I'll feel like I'm not losing any weight, since I really haven't.
What's great with weekly weigh-ins is that I can look at what I ate that week and how much I exercised and correlate that to how much weight I've lost, or in some instances, gained.
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