Weight

[jayfurr]

When I left for the 3-Day a week ago, I weighed 221 pounds. Yeah, that sounds like a lot, and it is, but I'm 6'2". I was hovering in the mid-to-upper 230s for several years, so that's definitely down from my historic highs.

I walked 60 miles, burning on average 130 calories a mile if I understand correctly, but also drank buckets of water and sports drink and ate numerous high-energy snacks during the event. I still hoped that I would come home weighing a bit less, but knowing that all those snacks would add up.

Well, when I came home I was dismayed to find that I'd put on FIVE pounds. I hadn't lost an ounce, far from it. I didn't want to be at 226 again. I wanted to continue my steady downward progression.

The 3-Day website said (in a FAQs section) that you'd come home weighing more and a lot of it would be water weight. I kept waiting for the water weight to vanish, and even yesterday it hadn't -- I was still around 225.

But yesterday apparently marked the tipping point, because when I got up this morning and weighed myself I was back to 221.

Thank God. I know ups and downs are natural during dieting but with me, the only way I can muster up the willpower to keep refusing snacks and keep eating responsibly is if I keep seeing results. Losing five pounds' worth of results and going back up to 226 had had me very annoyed.

I keep wanting to get south of 220. Perhaps the next few weeks will get me there.

Comments

[bethzebra.livejournal.com]

I've definitely observed that effect. After a weekend of getting a lot of exercise, I always feel like I should weigh less but actually wind up weighing more for a few days. I think muscles hold water when they get used hard.

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

There's also gotta be some "middle age" stuff going on, too,
because I'm experiencing the same thing WRT starches.

[batzel.livejournal.com]

There's also the matter that muscle weighs more than fat, and I'm sure you built some muscle density in your legs, back, and neck over those days.

I've about given up on losing weight. Best I can hope for, it seems, is redistribution.