A little frustration this morning, damn scale says 229lbs, up a pound from yesterday. It's not to big of an issue but it is frustrating after seeing nearly a lb a day tick away over the last few weeks. It's been since Friday that I've seen the scale show any weight reductions.
My thoughts on this are probably not something most want to talk about but since I'm tracking the journey and you've opted to read it, here goes...
I think it's because I haven't had a good bowel movement in a few days now. I had a few little ones, but nothing to account for how much I've eaten the last few days since my last "good" movement on Saturday morning. I know I'm still losing fat as I am seeing the muscle and bone outlines of my ribs, obliques, arms, and shoulders, as well as my calves and legs so visually it would appear I'm still heading in the right direction. With that said, what I'm seeing in the mirror doesn't jive with what the scale says.
I got the tape measure out to measure my equator at the belly and I was 1/4" bigger this morning over yesterday. I did this because my mid section is slightly protruding today. The interesting thing with this 1/4" increase over yesterday, my dress pants are just about to slide off of me this morning. A few weeks ago I was starting to contemplate buying the next size up in pants (40's), I was literally there and now I'm starting to slide out of my 38's. I reclaimed a belt loop hole sometime in the last few days and am now back in the belt loop holes that I was at early this year. Frankly I could take another belt loop (uncharted territory) but that would be a little snug right now, I'll give it another week. :)
I'm pretty sure I need to take a big ole dump but for whatever reason, the bowels aren't ready to let it go, at least not all at once.
Everything else checks out fine. I'm still at 1 on the blood ketones so I'm still making and running off of fat. Not sure what the weight stall is, but it highlights why the scale should never be your main indicator of success when you are working to lose weight. I'll just stay the course but this is now 3 days since a good dump and 3 days since the scale has moved, actually it went up a pound today - there's got to be some correlation?
Poop or no poop, there will be an interval session tonight.
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