Need support - hate the scale...

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Need support - hate the scale...
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Thu, 01-25-2007 - 3:04pm

my keyboard is broken - par for this week. so no caps today - or exclamation points.

i've been doing the healthy thing for 3 weeks now. working out 4 times a week, power90 both aerobic and strength and a special abs routine. i also drink water and eat correctly. the healthy inspiration plan, which is a lot like weight watchers...

nothing - insert many exclamations here.

not a single pound. nothing. i watch portions, i'm being perfect. i've cut back, smaller meals, more often, great quality. i feel some decrease in my size in my clothes, but the scale says absolutely nothing.

it is sooooo disappointing since the first few days is when you are supposed to lose the quote quick weight.

i am not giving up - only makes it worse, but i just can't figure out how to get the scale to go the right direction. i have soooo incredibly much weight to lose. i'm crying thinking how long it will take at this rate.

i have 125 pounds to go - and i wanted to look really good by august for a reunion. i am not going like this - i just simply will not be seen like this. i hate how i feel and look. i'm disgusting.

help - insert question mark...

camay

315/315/180

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Registered: 02-23-2006
Thu, 01-25-2007 - 4:10pm

According to the book I'm reading that is very normal. Your muscles are holding in water from the exercise. It usually goes away about 4 weeks after starting the exercise...but it takes some people longer. So he suggests waiting a month before weighing yourself. If you want

 


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Registered: 03-15-2004
Thu, 01-25-2007 - 8:25pm

First off, way to go on staying on plan even though you're not seeing results on the scale!


Have you tried taking your measurements and judging by that instead of a scale?

Brightest Blessings

~Dayle~

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Registered: 05-08-2006
Thu, 01-25-2007 - 8:54pm

Camay,
The scale lies...if you are doing the work, it will all catch up eventually.

I did not weigh myself for the first three months of this journey. I didn't want to face what I weighed, and I decided that I had made a plan and I would follow it, and whatever happened would happen. I saw small changes in my body - clothes a little looser, my face looked a little slimmer, but I didn't step on the scale. I totally focused on what I could control, and every single day I wrote down what I had done that day to advance my plan. At the end of the week I 'totaled' it up - walked to/from work 8 times; went to the gym 3 times; ate five salad meals this week (those were my base goals when I started). And I wrote something nice about myself each week too.

After I was secure in doing that as a habit, I was brave enough to start weighing once a week, and I had an average of a pound a week drop (that's how I guestimate my starting weight).

This will work if you stick with it - it might be slow, but it will work...

But I want to make another point too. We are not defined by what we weigh. Sometimes when someone close to me says something about how good I look now, I respond that I am proud of myself for having done the work to lose the weight - but I was ALWAYS a good person, even when I was 'fat'. It is great motivation to have an event that you want to look better for - but if you eat healthy and work out consistently between now and August, just by doing that you will have accomplished something - and if you are going to a reunion with people who care about you - then to he** with what you weigh - Go, dance, laugh, reminisce - if the people there won't love you for who you are on the inside, why would you want to 'reunite' with them!

Best wishes on this very hard journey!
SJ
225-170-135

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 01-26-2007 - 8:47am

Thank you all so much for the kind words.

I didn't work out the past two days as a result of my semi-depression. I ate right but kind of fell off the wagon.

I'm going skating tomorrow and Sunday I promised myself I'll work out again to recover from my wagon chasing. Get back up on it again.

I know the scale is probably not something I should get on every day. But I do like to see where I am. I figure I can stem off any bad things right away. If it goes up significantly then I figure something I did that day before was not right. So I can re-align.

Problem is, for the first time I'm not seeing results right away. Last year I did the "formal" Healthy Inspiration and I lost 8 pounds the first week and no less than 2-3 each week. I have a chart this time and right now I'm 5-6 pounds behind where I should be.

All this is probably the wrong way to go about it - setting false expectations based on past experience. I guess I just get bummed that when I really want to lose quickly - my body betrays me. Seems to happen everytime I want to get slimmer slightly faster or at least normal paced.

I like the idea of not getting on the scale anymore. It seems to be my enemy so maybe I leave it alone. Just go by inches.

I haven't completely lost my grip so I'll get back on track this weekend. It also was a tough week at work...I'm using this like a diary! Sorry...

I'm so happy though for the rest of you who are losing. If anything my post might make you feel better about the .5 or 1 pounds you are losing a week. MUCH better than the 0 or pound gain I'm seeing....

Camay

315/315/180

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Registered: 02-06-2006
Sun, 01-28-2007 - 7:13am

Camay, I really understand how frustrating this can be. I stayed a whole year with no changes on the scale, I did lose at least one dress size though. You're already losing inches and that means you're doing something that is working. So keep doing it. Use the number of inches as a judgement of your progress until the scale starts to move again (and it will, it has to, because you're losing and it is bound to catch up).

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