OK, try this:
2 lbs equals 2 pints of water. Which is about 2 large glasses
of the stuff. Your gut is 30 FEET long and holds way more
than 2 glasses of water worth. Actually I expect if someone
was to weigh your innards they would be over 20 lbs. Most
of that weight is water, and a lot of it is digesting food or
stored glycogen.
So get two pint glasses and set them on the counter
and think of that as your 2 pounds.
Basically if you eat food with lots of fiber in it, or more
salt, or your hormones are different ... your weight can
vary by 4-5 lbs easy. But the numbers on the scale
will mess with your head big time. It's probably better not
to look ... focus on some other number instead, like
how many pushups you can do or how many times you
can lift a weight of a certain size. Make a big chart and
fill it in every day. Or keep track of what you eat, in
Sparkpeople. Measure the size of your upper arms,
or use calipers to measure fat folds.
Your mind wants to focus on some numbers
and keep track of something to see progress ... so give
it something to track! Make a big deal of it! Pat yourself
on the back when you see how strong you are or that your
pants are looser!
And ignore the scale except, say, on Sunday morning,
when you track your weight for the long haul. "Weight"
can really mess with your brain and it's not a very
accurate tracker. What you really want to measure is
how much "fat" you have (and at that, it's the internal
fat that is more problematic than hip fat, and "brown
fat" is really good stuff to have). Or how healthy and
strong you are. Don't get caught into the "skinny is better"
mentality ... "skinny" isn't good, the really skinny people
also don't have much muscle and they look like prison-camp
survivors. Look at someone like:
Dunno how much she weighed, but my guess she'd be on
the high end of the BMI chart and she probably didn't worry
about her weight much, and she was really healthy, at
least when the pic was taken. Tack a picture of someone
like that to your fridge and near your weight set!
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM, cathykowloon <cathykowloon@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I know I shouldn't freak, I've read the book, I know about weight fluctuations day by day. But I am day 6 of Fast-5 and I weighed in almost 2 pounds more than I weighed when I started. I have not been eating a large amount of food... when I break my fast at 5p I usually have the equivalent of 2 snacks and dinner. Snacks being baby carrots, celery or almonds, stuff like that. Dinner being roasted veggies and chicken or fish.... an occasional pasta.... with salad.
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> I am working out and feeling great, not deprived. But one of the reasons I went on this plan was to lose weight. Help me from freaking out!!
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