I had lost two pounds throughout the week. Yesterday morning I weighed 207 on the dot. Today I weighed 212.8. I want to cry right now
Its ok Your most likely retaining water from either working out, or pmsing. It'll go down. Or like riestrella said, it could be you scale battery. My scale got down to 187.4 this week but shot back up to 189 this morning. What matters is you see a loss overtime. Daily fluctuations happen
Don't feel sad! Do you weigh in every day at the same time? Maybe your scales need new batteries if they're electronic? Or you might just been retaining water, so drink up that h20 goodness! The spreadsheet weights for the week are always changeable up until Sunday so if you manage to get down then come back and change it! I always weigh in on a Sunday to give myself the whole week to work hard, and choose the lowest weight from the week as my weight.
Yes, I weigh in every morning right after I use the rest room. I won't even take a sip of water before weighing myself, lol. I ate HORRIBLY yesterday. Went to a birthday party with my daughters and had pizza, then had fast food for dinner. I also drank soda. As bad as I ate, I was still at about 2500 calories. I am wondering if I am retaining more water than normal because that crappy medicine is still in my body? The whole time I was on it, I was drinking water like crazy to flush out as much of the water retention as possible. Yesterday was the one day the whole time that I did not drink my normal 3-4 liters of water. So that plus all of that sodium...I expected a gain, but not almost 6lbs. That is just insane. I hope I am back at 207 tomorrow Hahaha.
My first actual weigh-in since starting the challenge is tomorrow, and I'm excited about it (which is silly, but I am!). I always get excited about weigh-ins when I feel like I've done good (or at least decent). This week has sort of been weird, but I feel good so hopefully that's a prediction of what's in store.
Well, I can contribute my very good 1st week of this challenge to the fact that I am currently getting rid of my "holiday bloat." I weighed in at 188 today (1 pound away from my pre-holiday weight), so I believe I may have another good week and that may be my last "good" challenge week.
Is the starting weight supposed to be your weight when you first began Ideal Protein? Or the WI that you had the week before this competition started?
Since the first week is already over and tallied I'd just put your weight from today and then jump in next week? It's really up to Riestrella though. And not everyone here is on IP. I'm pretty sure a lot of different plans are represented.
Riestrella, I'm so sorry for messing with your last 3 columns!
I do have a question, though. According to my percentage weight loss, it seems like I would be somewhere in the challenge winners top 20? Maybe I am confused about something...
Your most likely retaining water from either working out, or pmsing. It'll go down. Or like riestrella said, it could be you scale battery. My scale got down to 187.4 this week but shot back up to 189 this morning. What matters is you see a loss overtime. 
My sn there is the same.
Don't feel sad! Do you weigh in every day at the same time? Maybe your scales need new batteries if they're electronic? Or you might just been retaining water, so drink up that h20 goodness! The spreadsheet weights for the week are always changeable up until Sunday so if you manage to get down then come back and change it! I always weigh in on a Sunday to give myself the whole week to work hard, and choose the lowest weight from the week as my weight.
Hahaha.
