So, I've been calorie counting-ish for the past couple months. But my body is freaky. I will lose 4 lbs, then have two bad days (bad days = 1600-1800 calories instead of my goal of less than 1300) and gain 5 pounds. Ugh.
So I've been staying at a consistent 173.2 for about one week. Then this past week my kids did a VBS right next to a lake that I like to walk. So, hello, I did 5 miles (mostly walking, tiny bit of jogging) EVERY DAY. That's a grand total of 25 miles. First night I ate 4 pieces of french toast and realized I'm going to sabotage myself if I keep that up. So the next 4 days were GREAT calorie-wise and mostly carb wise (about 150 a day). I even went swimming two of the days for a different approach. I kept my calories around a net of 1300, some days were a wee bit under and Monday was over.
So I checked the scale this morning excited to see results. 174.8 That's a freaking gain of 1.6 pounds!! Who does that? I'm pretty frustrated. I'm thinking I need to move up the intensity some?? But sheesh, 25 pounds and nothing? I know people are just going to say "give it a few days" and I will, but I'm not going to lie, I'm frustrated.
Thoughts?