I don't know why my luck with scales is so bad. After the fiasco with the analog scale I had last year, I got a digital scale this March. It was awesome, but it kept saying that the batteries are dead. I took it back to where I bought it from so they would fix it. In the meantime, I weighed myself on my parents' scale. It said that I didn't gain at all, despite the binge. Then on Tuesday, I got my scale back. It's still annoying, but at least it won't tell me to throw away full batteries every other day.

Anyway, I stepped on it and it turns out I GAINED 6,6 LBS. That was Tuesday. Today, I'm down 4,4 lbs. It has to be bloating, because I did overeat, but the most I overate was on Sunday and that was by 700 calories. The other 2 days, it was more like 400 extra calories. How can I have gained 6,6 lbs? I hate scales!

crud...back up to 149.2 this morning...3.2lbs heavier than monday. I know it's not possible that i've gained that much fat even though I've eaten bad Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Man I am so close to my goal! Why can't I just stay on track? totally my fault...gotta try to kick it into gear today!

Marniadec and Alisa, neither of you gained 3+ lbs over the course of a few days unless you were eating 3500 calories ABOVE your maintenance calories each day - and I'm sure you weren't! It's bloat/water retention/whatever from the larger than usual meals and different foods. My scale jumped up and stayed up for several days after over-eating at our seder on Friday, and it just dropped back down this morning. You are going to see these kinds of fluctuations if you weigh daily and especially following a big meal or a few bad days or very different foods, so don't sweat them! When your eating gets back on track to your normal, the number on the scale will follow given a little bit more time. :)

My scale did finally go down this morning - to 139.8!! Finally in the 130s, yay!! Now let's see if I can keep it there after this weekend away, lol.

I'm at my parents' and I'm fasting, so the food is certainly different and I went on a 2-3 binge, so I'm pretty certain it's bloating. I'm a little scared that I might have gained something because I have Hashimoto's and my symptoms are pretty bad lately, so I may gain easily. I'm also expecting TOM, so I'm about to bloat due to that, too and it will take a while to find out if/how much I gained. What is for sure is that I won't make my 2nd goal. So, all in all I'm a bit bummed. =/

Yay for 130's! May you have a nice, long stay there!!!

Up a pound this week - 207.5. Easter weekend at my parent's house in NY and all the candy that's been around this week just killed me! At least it was only a pound...getting back on track for next Friday's weigh in!

:high: everyone!

weighed in today at 232.5 - next week, I am going to try so hard to get to that 229!

You can do it dcapulet! Looks like we started out at the same weight...I am an inch shorter than you though :(

aniela26, I feel you. I'm at my parents' for 2 weeks. There's three kinds of dessert in the house. It's ridiculous. I'm fasting, so I can't eat any of it, but I'll break the fast tomorrow night. I'm also PMSing and seeing as how PMS and fasting don't go together, I'll hope I'll still be alive to tell the story on Sunday.:p

dcapulet, way to go!

So, I baked my first bread. :D It was freezing today and an oven thingie broke and by the time we replaced it it was too late to let it warm up inside, so it didn't grow huge like it was supposed to and I'm too impatient to wait longer than eleventy hours, so I just threw it in the oven... It's not very well baked inside, but it has the most perfectest crust I've ever eaten and it tastes good and I had more than a quarter of it with honey and now I want to die. Hopefully because I ate too much. I'm still within my calories, though. For dinner I'll have just bread, without the honey. I'm really proud of my under-baked bread.:p

Chickadee - I hope you have a fabulous time going back home!!! I bet you will amaze them as much as you inspire us! :) Hooray for hitting the 130's!!! I KNEW you would do it!!!! :carrot:

gardenerjoy - For our food restrictions, my DH doesn't eat any mayo... he won't even let me make it for him homemade. We get him Italian salad dressing (no creamy) so he can have "regular stuff" with us (his words, lol... such a kid sometimes). For me and my DD, we buy lactose free yogurt, use almond milk, etc. Just a major pain sometimes to have the adjustments

Sun - I am FAR from skinny.. which is what I keep laughing at DH for when he says it, but grateful he does see such a huge difference. Over 7" off my waist is a ton of inches, but then again, I started with a triple ton of inches to lose, :rofl: Great job staying with workouts even when you were feeling the bloat so bad earlier in the week! That's awesome!

Still no movement on the scale... and am <> close to saying "to heck with the scale" for a bit. It's almost like a compulsion to check though... want so badly to see it drop. I am literally working my @ss off, and muscle is building without doubt.. getting definition in my arms and legs I have never seen, that annoying back-roll is no longer sucking in part of my bra strap :lol: Progress IS being made since I made adjustments... just not reflecting on that scale...and yet... I want it to. So... sticking to it, I will DEMAND to see that number fall back into the 180s if it kills me, :lol: Last night I did Tae Bo with weighted gloves - everything burned... and took my DS hostage to do it with me :rofl: And then our cool down was a walk with the dog... my DS just LOVES our "quality time", :rofl: Have a super great weekend and stay safe and healthy!!!

for some reason, this week has just been so off for me! I have a stress fracture in my foot and haven't been able to do the cardio and exercise I usually do, over an hour a day usually. I have been overeating almost every day and going over my calorie limit by a TON. I mean like 1000's here! I haven't stuffed myself to the point of sickness or binged, I'm just really off whack right now. admitting that I'm doing it and that it's bothering me really isn't making me do better the next day, I feel like I'm not in control, which sounds so stupid! I DO have control over food and what goes into my body, and just because there is some good food that I like there, does not mean that I'm hungry or that I have to eat it. So take THAT you yummy food that I have been eating nonstop the past 5 days...this weekend is not going to throw me off the wagon. I do NOT want to end up gaining weight this month, even though I know stepping on the scales monday morning is going to be a horror lol...

where has my motivation gone...all I want to do is eat!

Weigh in day today and down 5 pounds, met my weekly goal!:dance: Now just 5 more to go to reach my April goal...

Alisapearl...hang in there, you will get back on track maybe you just needed a break from all the diet stuff to get your motor running again....You do have control you just let the food borrow the control for a minute now take it back and you will be right back on track!

So, I made my goal. :D I wanted to be at 188.6 and the scale said 188.1. Twice! skjdsdfwj Off to pig out on stuff, now, it's Easter! :p

Weigh day :)

Start Weight: 143.2
02/04/12: 142.6
09/04/12: 142.0
16/04/12: 141.8
23/04/12:
30/04/12:139.2

1.4lbs loss so far :)

Phew! Down 2 and back into the 170's! Must keep going!