Weigh-in Wednesday – Frusteration?

So here we go – it is hump day, or also known as Weigh-in Wednesday. Last week I was 155.9 and ready to kick the crap out of the scale for this week. I did stay mostly on-plan this week. I didn’t track seriously like I said I would…why is this so hard to do? Regardless, my food plan was very good this week!

Exercise – super excited here because hubby let me buy a treadmill on Sunday!! I used my Christmas bonus gift cards from work and that store had a decent one on sale. No, it’s not the top of the line or anything, but it is everything I need it to be and will make running in Michigan as a full-time working momma a heck of a lot easier! So, after not being able to workout since the end of the summer due to my shoulder, I ran/walked on it Monday evening & it felt AMAZING to sweat again! I only got in 2.3 miles but I know it’s gonna take some time for me to work back up to my “short” runs being a solid four miles. Tuesday morning I got up early and only did 20 minutes on it – my shoulder was quite sore & I’m being honest with myself on not pushing & overdoing the shoulder recovery. But, either way, I got in some exercise & felt GREAT! 

Then, I stepped on the scale this morning & it was up…..

0.4 from last week but up 1.4 from yesterday morning? What? I was instantly upset. I sat there going back through my week trying to figure out where I had gone wrong. 

But, then I told myself to chill, tomorrow it can be better. Maybe I’m just bloated, maybe it’s my body getting used to working out again, maybe I consumed too much sodium. 

But, maybe today I can just do better. Maybe today I can REALLY TRY to get all my water in. Maybe today I can try to go for a little walk on my treadmill (depending on my arm – so far it hasn’t been a very good shoulder day – you wouldn’t believe how every move you make impacts your shoulder joint/muscles). Maybe today I can track my food seriously – not the little chicken scratch way I typically do it.

That darn number on the scale holds so much “weight” on us. There was a time in the past I would have stepped off that scale & said “Screw it! My on-plan choices aren’t working anyway.” Then, I would have spend the remainder of the day consuming way too many calories! Yes, that number is important. It’s important to me and to my health. It’s a guide that gives me constant feedback – feedback that at times makes me want to pick up the scale & smash it into a million pieces while other times I want to kiss it. But it doesn’t define me. I’m not happy with it this week, but it is what it is. It has me confused. But, I can never understand why sometimes it goes up & sometimes it goes down so I’m gonna say that next week it WILL go down and today & tomorrow, I will do better.

Until Next Time
~krisha~