I stepped on my scale anxiously awaiting this week's weigh-in results and I had to do a double-take. Okay, actually I did a triple take. In fact, I got off the scale and back on three times.
Why? Because I had not lost an ounce!
Now, I know a lot about losing weight and that there are ebbs and flows during the process, but somehow I suddenly became that first-time-dieter who couldn't believe her eyes when she saw the scale hadn't budged (Somewhere, deep down, that impatient girl is stamping her foot with her hands on hips going, "But I was so good this week!).
I had to turn up my own voice of reason: The fact is, no matter how effective your diet is, you're going to have a week every now and again that you simply don't lose. Sometimes you may even gain.
There are a lot of reasons this can happen ... water weight gain, water retention due to sodium intake, building muscle due to exercise. The moral of the story is, no matter what method you are using to lose weight, not losing one week (or the next, even), doesn't mean you should give in.
I think about the time I was on Weight Watchers when I was 18. (It was my first attempt.) The first time I didn't lose, I did what I just warned you about: I threw that towel in and threw out my bathroom scale for good measure. I look back now and I regret that.
Losing weight is a process and no matter how much that impatient girl's voice is echoing in my head, "This isn't fair!" I know that I am older and wiser now and that sometimes this just happens. Neither the towel --nor the scale! -- is being thrown anywhere.
Note: Weight Watchers has provided me with free access to the online version of their program, and other tools, for me to complete my review of the new PointsPlus program. I am in no way being compensated by Weight Watchers.
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