Happy Monday Everyone!... Hope you all have a great week!! I sure could use one!!!

This Monday STINKS

June
5/31 206.2
6/1 206.6
6/2 204.6
6/3 205.2
6/4 205.0
6/5 204.3
6/6 204.0
6/7
6/8
6/9 202.0
6/10 200.0
6/11 201.1
6/12 200.0
6/13 201.6
6/14 201.6
6/15 201.8 I'm stuck, so I'm changing a few things. No olives, no avocado, and just water today. No coffee.
6/16 199.8 Yippie, it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6/17 200.0
6/18 200.6
6/19 199.8 I hope I'm about to have a breakthrough. I am a little stuck.
6/20 199.6
6/21 199.8 I started wearing my Fitbit on Wed. to MAKE sure I am getting my exercise in!! If you have one, let's be friends!! //www.fitbit.com/user/23WXBP My username is April
6/22 201.3 EEK!

Hey April - you just mentioned you just got a Fit Bit so I'm guessing you've been doing a bit more walking the last day or so. Yes?

Well, lots of people seem to gain a little weight when they start exercising! So don't get upset about that slight uptick in weight after you started exercising. Muscle is more dense than fat...which basically means, if you take a 1 inch cube of fat, it will weigh a whole lot less than a 1 inch cube of muscle even tho the two are the same size.

When you don't exercise and you're on an LC WOE, your body burns some fat just to keep you alive. When you do exercise, you body burns just as much fat to keep you alive as before...plus a tiny bit more to provide energy for the exercise. But, it also uses a bit more of the protein you've eaten to create new muscle tissue...and that muscle tissue weighs more than an equal sized piece of fat. Plus, after exercising all of your muscles are going to become slightly inflamed and hold on to a tiny bit more water than they otherwise would.

Thus, when you begin exercising, you may show a net gain on the scales BUT you will be getting smaller. Tiny bits of fat from all over your body got burned away...but equally tiny, or even tinier bits of muscle were built. The added muscle plus the extra water that the temporarily inflamed muscles are holding onto weighs more than the lost fat. So the scales say you've gained weight but it isn't FAT weight and you're actually SMALLER and stronger! And isn't getting smaller the real goal anyway?

Unfortunately, it is a whole lot harder to measure those teeny tiny muscle gains - which are probably spread all over your body - than it is to measure weight loss which our scales see as a whole body thing.

Keep exercising and stick with your WOE. Ultimately, the more muscle you gain the easier it will be to continue to lose weight AND the better you will look and feel.

love it. thanks for sharing your wisdom

(MAY 31: 143.6)

JUNE 2015
6/01: 142.8 d
6/02: 142.8 s
6/03: 143.6 u
6/04: 143.6 s
6/05: 143.6 s
6/06: 143.6 s
6/07: 143.0 d
6/08: 144.4 u
6/13: 143.6 d school's out!
6/15: 143.8 u
6/17: 147.0 u 100% on plan
6/18: 146.2 d
6/19: 145.4 d
6/20: 144.4 d
6/22: 146.4 u

6/1: 198.4
6/2: 198.4
6/3: 198.4
6/4: 199.2
6/5: 200.2 I don't know why!!
6/6: 200.6
6/7: DNW
6/8: 200.6
6/9: 200.6 Boring!!!
6/10: 200.6
6/11: 199
6/12: 201 over ate yesterday
6/13: DNW
6/14: DNW
6/15: DNW
6/16: 199
6/17: 199
6/18: 199.6
6/19: 199.6
6/20: 199.6
6/21: 198.8
6/22: 199.8 (Sigh)
6/23: 199.8

March 1: 217.0
April 1: 206.2
May 1: 195.9
June 1: 190.9

06/01: 190.9
06/02: 191.6
06/03: 189.9
06/04: 189.7
06/05: 190.3
06/06: 191.0
06/07: 191.6
06/08: 191.1
06/09: 191.1
06/10: 189.7
06/11: 189.7
06/12: 189.3
06/13: 189.5
06/14: 188.8
06/15: 188.6
06/16: 187.9
06/17: 187.1
06/18: 186.4
06/19: 184.9
06/20: 183.8
06/21: 183.8
06/22: 183.3
06/23: 184.7

This wasn't unexpected! I didn't have good food options during the day the last 2 days and, therefore, didn't eat enough. I would then eat later at night. I do much better if I don't eat anything after my supper meal.

One major thing I noticed yesterday. I rarely chew gum anymore, but bought some over the weekend at had a small piece yesterday. I was starving by the end of the afternoon and was craving something (anything) to eat! I think I need to stay away from the gum!

6/1/2015 296lbs goal 225lbs
6/2/2015 296
6/3/2015 296
out of town 6/4/2015-6/7/2015
6/8/2015 295lbs
6/9/2015 296lbs
6/10/2015 294lbs
6/11/2015 293lbs
6/12/2015 293lbs
6/13/2015 293 lbs
6/14/2015 292lbs
6/15/2015 291lbs
6/16/2015 290lbs
6/17/2015 290lbs
6/18/2015 290lbs
6/19/2015 292lbs ate 2 meals yesterday at fast food rest. Probably way to much salt. We'll see tomorrow
6/20/2015 291lbs
6/21/2015 291lbs
6/22/2015 292lbs
6/23/2015 292lbs Stalled here, will try just meat and eggs today

June
5/31 206.2
6/1 206.6
6/2 204.6
6/3 205.2
6/4 205.0
6/5 204.3
6/6 204.0
6/7
6/8
6/9 202.0
6/10 200.0
6/11 201.1
6/12 200.0
6/13 201.6
6/14 201.6
6/15 201.8 I'm stuck, so I'm changing a few things. No olives, no avocado, and just water today. No coffee.
6/16 199.8 Yippie, it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6/17 200.0
6/18 200.6
6/19 199.8 I hope I'm about to have a breakthrough. I am a little stuck.
6/20 199.6
6/21 199.8 I started wearing my Fitbit on Wed. to MAKE sure I am getting my exercise in!! If you have one, let's be friends!! //www.fitbit.com/user/23WXBP My username is April
6/22 201.3 EEK!
6/23 201.3

June 2015

6/01: 222.8
6/02: 221.8
6/03 - 6/4: n/a
6/05: 224.8
6/06: 223.8
6/07: 223.8
6/08: 222.8
6/09: 224.8
6/10: 222.0
6/11: 221.2
6/12: 220.8
6/13: 220.0
6/14: 219.6
6/15: 218.6
6/16: 218.8
6/17: 219.6
6/18: 220.0
6/19: 220.6
6/20 - 6/22: Lost weekend
6/23: 222.2

It's a darned good thing my weakness is with food and that I don't like alcohol. At least I wake up from my 'benders' with Salt & Pepper Pistachio crumbs on my chest and not in a rehab facility.

6/1: 227.0
6/2: 228.0
6/3: 227.5
6/4: 226.6
6/5: 226.2
6/6: 225.7
6/7: 225.7
6/8: 225.7
6/9: 224.7
6/10: 224.6
6/11: 226.1 - Ugh!
6/12: 226.2
6/13: 225.7
6/14: 225.7
6/15: 225.5
6/16: 223.9
6/17: 223.9
6/18: 224.7
6/19: 224.9
6/20: 223.4
6/21: 223.0 - new low
6/22: 222.7
6/23: 221.5 -another new low

6/01--377.8
6/02--373.8
6/03--371.8
6/04--369.8
6/05--370.4
6/06--372.0
6/07--375.4
6/08--376.8
6/09--373.4
6/10--370.8
6/11--368.4
6/12--367.8
6/13--367.4
6/14--365.8
6/15--365.8
6/16--364.6
6/17--364.8
6/18--364.2
6/19--365.4
6/20--367.8
6/21--368.6
6/22--369.4
6/23--366.8

(Feb 1: 199)
(Mar 1: 194)
(Apr 1: 191)
(May 1: 190)

6/01: 186
6/02: 186
6/03: 186
6/04: 187
6/05: 186
6/06: dnw
6/07: dnw
6/08: dnw
6/09: 187
6/10: 187
6/11: 185
6/12: 185
6/13: 185
6/14: 185
6/15: 185
6/16: 186
6/17: 185
6/18: 185
6/19: 184
6/20: 185
6/21: 184
6/22: 185
6/23: 184

(MAY 31: 143.6)

JUNE 2015
6/01: 142.8 d
6/02: 142.8 s
6/03: 143.6 u
6/04: 143.6 s
6/05: 143.6 s
6/06: 143.6 s
6/07: 143.0 d
6/08: 144.4 u
6/13: 143.6 d school's out!
6/15: 143.8 u
6/17: 147.0 u 100% on plan
6/18: 146.2 d
6/19: 145.4 d
6/20: 144.4 d
6/22: 146.4 u
6/23: 146.6 u scale messing w my mind!

Me too, Kosmo!
I'm 100% on plan- but I am pretty sure I have been "overloading the system with too much food, specifically at night. So, gotta' tighten up the "snacking" even if it IS on plan foods.
I like to finish dinner and be DONE eating. If I do get hungry- I have a cup or two of green tea.

(Scale is playing tricks.)