The Ups and Downs of Losing Weight

Sometimes its my weight that is up and down, up and down....I hate when I spend a week or two eating right, being very careful to have a calorie deficit while eating healthy food and I step on the scale and boom +2 pounds. Two days later -3. Its maddening!

Before you comment, I know that I should take measurements as sometimes we lose size, not necessarily weight. I know if I had a meal with a lot of sodium that it could be water weight. I know that if it is a certain time of the month, I weigh more. I know these things but at the moment I step on the scale all confident that I've dropped another pound - I DON'T CARE! I just want to see a smaller number!

And another thing is the fact that looking at a twinkie I gain a pound without even eating it...but to lose a pound I have to burn 3,500 calories, which could take a week or more. How is that even fair? I seriously look at just about everything I eat in terms of how much time I need to spend on the elliptical burning it off...suddenly the twinkie isn't quite as appetizing.

I am thankful I have friends at the gym who know and understand what it means to lose weight. They are struggling with the same issues I am, or have struggled with them. I just want to finally get at my goal weight and look in the mirror at a skinnier me. In my head I'm skinny, I just want the mirror to show what's in my head LOL :)