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Originally Posted by Immabe
Ok so week one I lost 12.5lbs and I go to weigh in tonight but something today told me to weigh myself at home this afternoon so I just did and the number on my scale is the same as my last weigh in. I stuck completely to diet 100% except for one day I was so busy I skipped both breakfast and lunch. Could one day really screw up an entire week of good eating? Or I am just hoping that maybe my scale and their scale are different numbers. Not sure but I am a tad disappointed.
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Hi there. I am fairly new to IP myself. You don't say if you checked our weight on both your home scale and your WI scale before the first WI. Did you? Maybe there is a variation between the two scales. Also, I've had up and down weeks too. Here's my WI history: wk1 -11, wk2 -4, wk3 -0.5, wk4 -3.8, wk5 +1.6, wk6 -7.6. Notice the weird losses (and gains) starting wk3? Bottom line though is that I am down a total of 25 and that is typical of people on IP. Now, keep in mind that I have more than 85 lbs to go so I might lose more on some weeks than you but you should still see significant loss if you look at the losses in total and don't worry so much about week to week. The key is to stay with it. Don't cheat! And be sure to eat at least every 4-5 hours and don't miss meals because you won't lose weight if you don't eat enough food. Our bodies are pretty smart and if yours thinks you are possibly starving it, it will slow your metabolism down to save you. My counselor told me to never miss the snack at night and eat it within 1 hour of going to bed. (I wasn't always eating the snack if it was late.) I find that if I eat every 4-4-1/2 hours, eat my restricted meal early -- say before 4 pm and at snack time do a lower calorie drink, use the salt and olive oil -- well it works for me. Oh yeah and many days because I am up from 5 am to 10 pm I wind up having 4 packets a day rather than 3. Don't get discouraged! You can do it!
A tad disappointed but still hopefull
