Weekend Journal

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Registered: 03-15-2004
Weekend Journal
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Sun, 08-07-2005 - 9:27am

It's quiet here this weekend! Anybody doing anything fun?

We had a day out with inlaws/family yesterday. I was in need of a kid fix so we took the nieces out to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and also for lunch. It was fun, and we were exhausted by the time we go home. Also did the Tae Bo video yesterday morning. It was a little easier this time.

Today, we are hibernating at home relaxing. I have a couple of things to do in prep for my day tomorrow, but other than that and laundry, we'll just be spending time together.

My weight continues to rise and it's just very, very strange as I'm not even eating 3500 calories in a DAY, much less 3500 calories over my BMR. It's odd that I was seeing results with my eating plan before I started lifting again and now that I'm lifting again, the results appear to be coming undone. Aside from normal-female-weight-freakout-stuff, I am genuinely curious about what could be causing this (I'm pretty sure it's not TOM since that happened recently.). Ah well.

Journal guesstimate:

Breakfast: peanut butter and banana on a ww tortilla

Snack: large salad

Lunch: beef and tofu tostadas, grapes

Snack: cottage cheese

Dinner: chicken pesto pizza, broccoli, chocolate milk

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Registered: 10-27-2003
Sun, 08-07-2005 - 2:29pm

Maybe, and this is out of the blue, your body started to hang on to extra fluid for healing when you started to lift. Not only did your body need to heal from your surgery, but now you're tearing muscles when you weight train. Try taking it down a notch for a while and see if that helps. I would continue to lift because that is going to prevent other injuries, but maybe lift lighter and less often.

Just a guess. Sorry to hear about the weight gain, I know it is stressful. I bet more stressful after everything that you have gone through.

Paula

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Registered: 03-15-2004
Sun, 08-07-2005 - 4:21pm

Thanks, Paula. You could be right. I also thought it might be that I'm not eating enough calories to support the additional activity. I'm going to keep everything status quo for another week and see what happens.

You're right... it's especially hard. I think that when you've lost a significant amount of weight, and weight starts to come back (even if you KNOW you aren't eating that much and it can't be *real* weight), it freaks you out. I know that I never ever want to be that heavy person again and I've never been able to shake the feeling that I'm right around the corner from turning into that person again. I know it's crazy, but it's how I feel.

Thanks for your support. :)

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Registered: 03-20-2003
Sun, 08-07-2005 - 11:33pm

It could be due to a lot of things but you're not gaining fat which is what counts.






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Registered: 05-01-2003
Mon, 08-08-2005 - 8:29am
That's the same thing that was happening to me!
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Registered: 03-15-2004
Mon, 08-08-2005 - 9:16am
Thanks, Millcreek. I certainly hope you're right. I am doing my best to just remain non-emotional about it and try to keep from getting frustrated. I am down 2.5 lbs from yesterday but I didn't exercise yesterday either. Today I'll lift and do cardio so it'll be interesting to see where I am tomorrow. I'm curious to hear about what happened this weekend! The suspense! :)