Week 59

Weight: 231.8
Weekly GAIN: 10.0
Total weight lost: 136.6
Average Weekly Loss: 2.32

Yikes!!  I feel like Jack Sh*t.  But he only gained like 0.8 pounds. 

But I knew this was coming.  Well, not this much.  But a gain. 

After my morning run yesterday, I was at 222.0, so I was expecting a small gain.  But then I guess I went crazy eating yesterday.  Not Calories, though it was higher than usual.  But in type of food.  Food I don't normall eat: pizza (three small slices), mini quiches (4), and mini hot dog roll-ups.  So, really, for me it just shows that it's NOT just about the Calories in the food, but also about the types of food.  The nutrients.  They really do matter.

Of course, I don't think I've been as honest with you guys as I should.  Don't get me wrong--the scale pics are real.  I take them every Sunday.  They are never doctored.  But I have been trying to influence the reading.  How have I been doing that?  Well, recently, I've been not having enough water on Saturdays--in hopes of lowering my weigh-in; and I've been listing an additional run on Saturday that I do on Sunday morning right before I shower and step on the scale.  I'm actually more embarrassed by those revelations than my actual weight, you know?  But I didn't do either thing this week.  I weighed in normally.  It's not fun to see the "10 pound" gain, but I feel this is a much more honest number.  No, I don't think it's water weight that I gained.  Not completely, at least.  I think it's mostly the water weight I was pouring out just before I stepped on the scale.

So, I'm thinking of 231.8 as my new baseline.  This is where it truly starts again.  I think those weigh-in strategies were what was holding me back--now I am back to where I should be.  And, as a positive, none of my physical measurements really went up, so I'm not too worried about the weight. 

I feel, now, though, that I need a little perspective.  Something to help me think about how things have changed, in spite of the fact that I have only lost 7.2 pounds in the last 15 weeks.  I'm sitting here in size 34 pants and a large polo (with a medium undershirt).  That means that I've lost 14 pants sizes.  And 3 shirt sizes.  And I've lost over 135 pounds.  And in the 15 weeks since I hit my original goal, I've even made great progress--even though I've only lost 7.2 pounds: I've lost almost 4 inches from my chest, 5-1/2 inches from my stomach, and more than 4 inches from my waist; and 3% of my body fat.  So, although I jumped up 10 pounds, I am still making great progress.