I gained 5 pounds this week and I don’t care 🤷🏼♀️
Monday morning I stepped on the scale and weighed 120lbs flat. Yesterday I weighed in at 125.4lbs. That’s about 5.5lbs up in one week. 😅
What happened? Two big factors:
✖️ I was on my cycle, where I usually hold about 2-3lbs of water weight.
✖️ Saturday was our wedding anniversary, where I only tracked half the day. The other half was full of wedding cake, diet coke and lots of sushi.
Did I gain 5lbs of fat from one day loosely tracked and being on my period last week? OF COURSE NOT! 🙅🏼♀️ If I wasn’t being consistent with stepping on the scale and just took this info at face value, it would look like I seriously blew it though.
How do I know that 5lbs wasn’t fat?
Easy. I weigh in every morning, fasted, after going to the bathroom, undressed (control your controllables) and track it. That way when there’s an odd day out, I’m so in tune with my body from being consistent, it’s easy to identify what the heck happened.
Like being on my period 🤢 I know I hold water weight that week, from consistently tracking and looking at trends for my body, over time.
Like eating sushi 🍣 I know my body doesn’t digest rice well and I feel bloated forever after having it.
Like carbonation🥤I only drink soda maybe once a week these days! Carbonation is little air bubbles that you drink, so it’s normal to feel more bloated after having 3 diet cokes with dinner like I did.
What did I do when I saw my weight climb this week? STUCK TO THE PLAN 💃🏼 It definitely messed with my head this past week, but the worst thing I could’ve done is lost it over water weight.
And guess what happened? I stepped on the scale and I’m already back down 3lbs 🙃
The scale is just ONE tool to measure your progress and thank goodness it is!
I gained 5 pounds this week and I don’t care 🤷🏼♀️