The wooosh ...
 

I keep hearing of the woosh. I wondered if everone gets those. Have some of you never had one? How about and PCOSers, did you get the woosh? I get a few ounces to a pound lost at most-ever. I'm still at 208. Ugh. Let me explain possibly why ..
I have been eatting sometimes bad and sometimes too little this week. I was at the hospital a lot this week with my hubbys son. I have 2 stepkids that we were extranged with(long story short, their real mom didn't want them to like me-I was a threat in her head) and we heard his son was having surgery on his lung. He has pneumonia. So Upon this knowledge we have dived nose first back into the kids stratasphere and they are excepting. My stepson is recoveering well ... stress that is good is still 'stress'.
Then my care in myself has been somewhat lousy ..
Having less nutrition at hospitals as should be, I had pizza, and chicken nuggets at times too little water, this week. Some of my caloric intakes have been less than 1200 cals per day and I have a headache today the size of Arkansas!! lol
As if all this weren't enough my 'tom' started yesterday after being late. So back to that woosh, despite stress and all these things is there ever a possibility I might see mine too? I am exercising though, so there's that. Anyone have similar things going on but due to due dilegence the body let it go in some way. Thanks for sharing, if you do.
Avalonmoon

Hugs!

You have a lot on your plate. I hope everything works out for the best.

And no, no woosh for me :-(

i only lost 2lbs for november, surprised i even lost that to be honest BUT i had a 6lb woosh during my TOM in 1st week of december that had me more excited than a kid at christmas lol!

Whooshes are typically from fat loss being masked by water weight, then the water all of a sudden letting go (from my understanding anyway). If you have been in a deficit but it isn't reflecting on the scale, it's possible you MAY see a whoosh. But if your calorie level has been breaking even just due to availability of food and tracking methods even with the exercise, it just may be a simple case of the scale not moving because there's no actual loss.

All that being said, stress can definitely hinder weight loss. If your calorie deficit is for sure solid without question, there's a good chance you may see a whoosh. I've seen them a couple times throughout my weight loss, not very often though.

Here's a good article on them! Of Whooshes and Squishy Fat

I've had whooshes, yes, I tend to lose the normal 4-8 pounds a month when perfectly on plan... But that does NOT mean I show 1-2 pound losses each week! No, I tend to lose a pound, bounce around that pound for two weeks, bounce UP during my time of the month, and then whoosh down 3-4 seemingly overnight. Rinse, repeat. And it is very typical, even for those with insulin resistance as is common with PCOS.

Not every woman follows this pattern, but our bodies are great at balancing out fluid levels and that can mask actually fat loss with water retention. Our muscles also can store immense amounts of water in their repair cycle, if we're exercising. So while our body composition IS changing, the scale only shows how heavy we are at a given time. Hardly a useful metric ;)

I have had 2 whooshes (and probably documented on this site) in my time dieting!

I don't know if it's the PCOS or just simply that my body doesn't whoosh like that...

It always seemed that I had to work really hard for any "whoosh" that I experienced during my weight loss... And by that I mean I had to do something like follow a very strict PSMF for a week or at least severely restrict my carb intake... or just cut calories pretty drastically to create the deficit... basically something along those lines... But after the initial excitement of seeing that big "loss" on the scale it would be followed by a bounce back up of a couple of pounds... Leaving me with a net loss of usually about 3 or 4lbs... Which I know sounds great... but not only was it a lot of VERY HARD work... :dizzy: When I averaged out my losses for the month they weren't much better than when I just stuck with a more moderate approach of consistently hitting my daily calorie and macro targets...

I'm due for a mega woosh the way I've been retaining water -.-

No, I haven't had any wooshes either. Just small steady losses. I'm sorry to hear about your family stress - it's good that you and your hubby were able to be there for your step-son. When do they expect to release him from the hospital?

I've never heard of wooshes. But I have had plenty of them. Last Sunday I was weighing in at 231 and today I'm 235. I've ate and exercised like I should all week...only to be up 4 pounds. Now I understand what's going on.

Thanks Mozzy. ((hugs))

Whew dangerouscurves. that is an amazing drop. Congrats. :)

Thank you Stephanie, Taryl and Rana. I'll searh your posts Rana. I know I have seen so much wooshing, I just wondered. I suppose it could be a smaller number on some of us. I know my loss this month is greater than usual. I'll have to see how much more than my 'norm' I can lose in the next cpl weeks to know, I appreciate all your wise info,ladies. You've all done so great!! :)

TripSwitch~ do you have pcos or are those pounds obstinate? I wasn't getting the scale to move w/o major extra minutes of fitness either. where do you have your cals set at? Do you do intense fitness?

I ate a lot last night and got 1 more pound off. I emotionally ate 2 normal sized candy bars.lol I felt so guilty too. Now I'm not so upset I did it though. My visitor was nagging me so I gave in. :)

Thedollylala, I hope you get that woosh. ;)


MissyKrissy~ Thank you. You have down very well for not having big losses per time. Thank you for sharing with me. I'll keep an eye out and keep hoping. lol