Ok… so I’m a little confused by my weigh-in this a.m. Although I did go over my daily alloted calories by about 600 yesterday, the 2300 overall cals that I did have were still less than what I actually burned throughout the day, therefore I should not have had this kind of weight gain.
But after thinking about it for a little while, trying to make sense of this, I think I may have figured out the problem.
On Saturday, my official weigh-in was 210.4 lbs. I needed and was shooting for 209.8 but just missed it. That day we traveled to see Rachel’s sister compete in a Tough Mudder in Palatka (near Gainesville) FL. So nutrition wasn’t the greatest on that day although I did what I could to keep my calories down.
The next morning I weighed in upon waking up like I always do and the scale said 209.0! I quickly took a picture and was stoked as well as surprised to see my weight under the 210 mark, especially after eating on the road all day Saturday. But what I usually do each morning is weigh myself about three times in a row – each about a minute apart because my scale will sometimes fluctuate. Usually the weights that come back are generally very close to each other and I take the lowest one. But on Sunday, after my first weigh-in at 209.0, my next two weigh-ins (just minutes apart) were both 210.4. So maybe the 209.0 was the anomaly. And my weight really did hold steady at 210.4 from the day before. In retrospect, it makes more sense.
Admittedly, I was running late for work and did not weigh in yesterday (Monday) so I’m not sure what my weight was going into today’s weigh-in. Either way, I somehow came up one pound over the 210.4 that I likely was on Sunday. So two things are at play here. Either my nutrition on Sunday was shit, which I don’t think it was – although I didn’t track calories that day – but did try to eat clean for the most part. Or it was my dinner last night that may have added to the weight. Last night, I made tilapia, fried shrimp, brown rice, a vegetable medley and a salad. I meticulously added up all my calories from that meal just to make sure I wasn’t going overboard and I finished very close to 2300 total. Perhaps the sodium in the fried shrimp or cocktail sauce was enough to retain some water and put me up a pound? Not sure. I did run 3 miles afterward in an attempt to sweat it out. But apparently it was not enough.
Rick and I have been conversing about trying to get my weight low enough where I’m a couple of weeks ahead of where my target weights should be. To give myself a cushion. I need to be at 207.2 or less on this Saturday’s official weigh-in. That’s 4.2 lbs from today! Now, I’m not panicking, I’m fairly certain I can do this. But to get ahead of the game may take me a few more weeks to do. For now, all my focus will go into hitting this week’s target weight. I’ll worry about getting ahead after that.
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