I hit my minigoal on wednesday and i started bloating soon after. just remember as soon as it's over, those 4-6lbs come off instantly and you'll see the loss! i have to keep reminding myself that. don't weigh yourself.... that's my way of coping with this.

I felt the same way earlier this month! I thought it would never drop and it finally did, but it takes me a week or so. I stress out the whole time! It doesn't whoosh for me it takes light steps back. Excruciating!

Hey I feel your pain. This morning I was 4.3 lbs heavier than on Wednesday morning...come on, there is not way that I gained that much in 3 days..I know it's water weight. The only thing I regret is weighing in at the gym...why, why, why?

On my TOM I gain 5 lbs overnight and I do lose them overnight, but not till my TOM is 100% OVER. Be patient, if you're doing what you need to do, it'll come off soon. *hugs*

I feel your pain. Mine just started and my weight is back up... Plus I have discovered that my chocolate fetish is actually worse during TOM. I never realized that before because I wasn't watching what I ate. I'm hoping mine whooshes right off at the end, but only time will tell...

the moment i start my TOM I don't even go near the scale. i stick to water and exercise and hope the water weight goes down once I'm down.

I think if i did weigh myself and saw how much I gained it would discourage me.

Well...official weigh in day was today, and I lost another 2 pounds. Granted, I worked out twice yesterday, but I also allowed myself to have a little bit of ice cream, and I still lost 2 lbs over the week! I really need to find a way to keep myself away from that scale during the week. It is so tempting!! One more pound and it's ten pounds gone...just have to do that 5 more times. Woo!

My official weigh in day is Saturday, but today is the first day I've been able to hop onto the scale, and between TOM and the salt fest I had this weekend (not entirely TOM related... in the interest of keeping myself honest, I was out of town this weekend to run a 5K, and lived on a lot of takeout) I was up 10 pounds! I was like, "Woah my God m_ f_." Hopefully, TOM comes soon, and I push enough fluids to counteract the salt. I was ONE pound away from a mini-goal in my last weigh in too... sigh...

It's your TOM, so that 1lb gain is probably not an actual gain. It's likely just water weight that will disappear a couple days after TOM is over. You can do this, and you have already succeeded by losing 9lbs! I think what's got you so upset is a trap I've fallen into many times before, by weighing-in too often.

The scale is sometimes hard to resist, but I've learned that I'm a much happier person when I stick to my once-a-week schedule. I used to weigh myself every day, or every other day, and I would just be so disappointed to see either no loss, or a teeny-tiny loss, or a small gain. It would totally throw me off plan because I'd think, "I'm working so hard and all I've lost is 0.2lbs?" or "What's the point of eating like this and exercising if I'll lose nothing?"

I finally got it into my thick head that weighing-in once a week might be something to try. Lo and behold, my losses are consistently 1-2lbs a week. It's hard to see that when one day I might lose nothing, the next 0.3, the next 0.1, etc. I would advise you that no matter how tempted you are, stick to your weekly weigh-in schedule.