BFB - The 23.5lbs is the total that everyone posted as lost (or gained) this week. So each week I do a calculation that adds up the minus numbers and then deducts the plus numbers - OK - some people may have lost and regained and relost the same couple of pounds, but even so I add or deduct them on a weekly basis in accordance with everyone's posts.
The total lost so far of 61.5lbs is a grand total of the losses (or gains) that everyone has posted - since the first post on the other thread. If you have posted the same loss twice then it will have been added in twice - or if you haven't posted a loss then I won't have included it - mainly because I wouldn't have known about it....!!
The grand total to lose is the total that everyone told me they wanted to lose - less Becky cos I haven't heard from her. But we need to add in Vivienne.
Hello Chi Chi, i would just try to keep at it and lose what you can. It is good to have a goal and be focused but it is good to try for 1.5-2 lb per week. Best of luck, we are all here to help each other!!
It could be water retention in the lead up to TOM.
Why not keep a strict diet and exercise diary for a couple of weeks. At the end of that time if you can say, hand on heart, that you have regularly taken enough exercise and have eaten the correct number of calories for you every single day, then I would take my diary and go visit my doctor because it would be a physiological problem beyond your control.
I had a real problem with exactly what you are describing when I was first put on to HRT - I was basically getting too much estrogen and it was really mucking up my entire body - I had bad water retention and could actually watch my fingers, toes and face puff up as each day progressed. My weight could vary between one day and the next by up to half a stone.
Don't be disheartened - if you know that you stuck to your diet then it is fake fat and it will disappear very soon.
I am not looking to make excuses - honest. I have kept a diary (there were a couple of slips, but not enough to warrant a 5lbs gain) and have looked back into last year's journal, and there were a few occasions where I had chinese and pizza in a week or totally lost the plot and only had a slight gain.
Two things are niggling at me. Firstly ToM was six days early and shoud have started today and secondly when I put down the scale (Tanita) it was registering 4.5lbs before I even stepped on. I took out the batteries and replaced them before weighing. Not sure if this means anything, but I am sure you can all understand how I am feeling. It's times like these that you can endulge in self sabotage and eat for the world to console yourself.
No - I didn't think you were looking to make excuses - not at all...! I'm sorry if you thought that, I certainly never meant it that way.
Dieting is the hardest thing we can do - so it is only natural to feel upset when you actually gain weight when you know you have been working so hard.
It was probably the scales... my doctor and his nurse have got the same type of scales but I weigh 7-10lbs more on the doctor's set. The nurse's and my home ones register my weight as the same so I go by hers and mine. I think if I were you I would go and get myself weighed somewhere else (Boots the chemist have scales) or your doctor's nurse might oblige - and then you will know how far out your scales have been.
PLEASE don't indulge in self sabotage - that won't achieve anything except to make you feel even more miserable about yourself. You know that you have lost weight - even if the scales don't show it.
Sorry if I came across as saying/implying you thought I was making excuses. I meant I was not trying to make excuses for myself, it would be easy to fool everyone around me, but you can't kid yourself.
The thing is though, I don't look as if I have gained and an item that was previously tight, is comfortable. Having lost last week and worked fairly hard, even a loss of 1lb would have been nice. Suppose I will just have to stick at it and see the results hopefully next week.
Looks like the scales might have been or are faulty then.
I was thinking about investing in some 'posh' ones (mine were £2.99 from the market) but perhaps I won't now....
My American diet buddy doesn't weigh herself at all - she is judging her weight loss by how her clothes feel and celebrates a milestone by when she goes down a dress size. So your item of clothing being loser is a good indication that you are doing all the right things. Well done - keep up the good work.
BPB i really do not like those scales, we have had 3 sets they just do not seem to be reliable. We paid £60 plus ponds for ours a couple of years ago( the fat monitor ones where you programme different peoples details in etc) and had to keep taking tham back. the store we bought them from doesn't sell them anymore because they had so many complaints, I would go to Boots as someone else suggested.
Don't give up, the scales do not have any power, it is you that has the power to lose the weight and you can do that regardless of what they say this week.
You know what kind of a week you have had forget what the scales said and carry on regardless
I hope you kept the receipt, BPB. I'd phone up and complain. I wouldn't have thought that the battery would have died by now anyhow, so it looks like they might be faulty.
BPB Take those scales back. I had some and they cost loads too. Everytime I got off and on they weighed me differently. I think the digital ones are ok provided you never move them. They are so easy to upset. Mine now are Salter ones with a huge dial so that you can't miss your loss or gain. However, I think they weigh light, but that doesn't really bother me as long as the loss or gain is correct and you weigh the same every time you get off and on.
Coz Im going on holiday with my mates on the 28th June! Aaaaaarrgh! 
