"Ooh I only lost 0.6kg this week. I am always going to be fat. This is taking too long. Boo hoo hoo ... I'm going on the EAT ONLY CARDBOARD diet - just to give me a quick start of course. Once I am skinny then I'll eat properly."
I read this on weight loss blogs over and over again. And frankly it pisses me off.
Welcome to my world, people, where you GAIN 3 fucking kilos in half a week without knowing why*.
Yes folks, I struggle to lose 250g a week and then in one foul swoop I have regained everything I have lost in the past twelve weeks.
I am constipated and bloated - my rings are tight on my fingers and my belly looks pregnant. I didn't eat takeaway on my free day this week so it can't be salt - I had all homemade food.
So what am I going to change now this great tragedy has befallen me ---- ummm ---- nothing. The scales are a load of crap -- they measure how much water and sh!t (literally) inside me. They aren't the final word on how fat I am. I didn't gain 3 kilos of squishy white oily fat this week. I just got bloated and backed up.
If I can ride out this unfathomable gain and continue on regardless, so can you. Although I don't enjoy seeing huge stinking numbers on the scale, I can take a small amount of solace in the fact that my bodyfat % has dropped down to 18.9%.
Pick a healthy plan and stick to it. Something you can do for the rest of your life. After only 3 weeks, just 21 days, you will have a new eating/exercise habit that will replace whatever you did or didn't do before. It's a relationship not a fucking one night stand. Commit - no matter what - for better or worse.
*There was an accidental encounter with some Turkish Pide on Tuesday night but hardly 10,000 calories worth!
Well said Katie, commit or DON'T it is really that simple..
ReplyDeleteI often have that problem too, need to eat more fibre!! ewwwww.
Emx
Congrats on ur decrease in body fat.
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Know how it feels... I can gain 3 kilos in week too... it's only water mate!
ReplyDeleteYeah..never a true word spoken.
ReplyDeleteMe BFL week 4..have lost jackshit on the scales, but im smaller, I have serious muscles on my arms and my arse is a size 10..and im eating more food that I ever eaten in my life.. All clean food, hardly any crap..
Love your work Miss Katie.
Cheryl :)
Dead right Katie - forget the scales. I think they are pretty useless IF you are weight training/doing cardio, and eating well most of the time. Use your clothes as a guide instead. I was talking to someone recently who in my mind has always been quite thin - and she said - she just goes by her clothes. She said she can tell within a couple of days if she eats too much because her jeans feel tight - so she is just more careful for a few days and she's ok again. I'm going to operate like that too - to hell with the scales - and here's to a healthy, active and fulfilling lifestyle!
ReplyDeleteI love you right now!!!!! I totally agree. Although I am guilty of it at times as well, you are right - keep going and it will work - even if the scales din't say so. You go girl! xxx
ReplyDeleteI weigh myself every day. If the scale stays the same and I have eaten crap the day before I think "You have them fooled". Truth is, I may weigh basically the same (give or take a couple of kilos) as a year ago but I look so much bigger and my clothes are tight. I use the scales not moving as an excuse to keep being lazy. Weight IS just a number. I need to stop pretending....I am not fooling anybody.....except perhaps myself!
ReplyDeleteI love your dedication by the way....you should be proud of your determination.
Miss Pinky.
I'm totally guilty of that at times and then I slap myself around a little and shut the fuck up. Truth be known I know that I go up and down by 2-3kilos in a week and then when I think I'm doomed to not get it under control I slip down a few numbers and stay there.
ReplyDeleteit's all relative.
it's a work in progress.
and I'm more reliant on how strong I feel and what the tape measure says then that shonky white contraption in my bathroom.
OMG I will whinge and complain and all the rest of it but I think you are amazing. I know you're right. But unfortunately it wont stop me feeling like shit when it all happens to me.
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