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annhett wrote:I'm so sick of the scale. I've tried not stepping on it, but I can't. I'll show a new all time low, then the next day I 'll show a 2-3 pound gain, then in a week or 2, i'll show a new low. I work out with a trainer and I'm getting stronger, so I suspect I am building muscle. Regardless, it does get discouraging.
Starchmonger wrote:Day to day weight checks can be heartening or disheartening, but remember - a pound of body fat is a lot of stored energy. When your weight is up 5 lbs one day then down 3 lbs the next, it's obviously not body fat causing those changes.
So what's at play? Stored waste in the intestines/kidneys and of course water retention.
Carbs will cause weight fluctuations from water retention more than anything, and that's all we eat here on the McDougall diet, so the water weight swings up and down quite a lot.
Bear in mind, every living cell in your body relies on/can store water. A dehydrated human would lose somewhere from 75-80% of their total mass.
Tell your wife to keep at it. Nobody on earth who has had successful weight loss did so overnight. It's a process, and a product of good habits, not good genes. 110 lbs took me well over a year of consistent lifestyle change.
Keep at it! Eat plant strong!
Starchmonger
dynodan62 wrote:I couldn't figure out why, that while my weight is now down to what it was in high school (trim/athletic then), the fat slob in the mirror still has a belly (and tits to boot). One clue (I just recently discovered), is that I am now nearly two inches shorter! Quite disconcerting, until I learned that it is a normal result of aging. I now have to adjust down my 'ideal' target weight from the insurance height charts. I should also likely bite the bullet and add some core/strength training to my daily aerobic workouts, if I really do want to eventually lose the flab.
annhett wrote:I'm so sick of the scale. I've tried not stepping on it, but I can't. I'll show a new all time low, then the next day I 'll show a 2-3 pound gain, then in a week or 2, i'll show a new low.
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