If you can tell me how this happened you will be a genius!
1. I took my old furniture out to the curb
2. washed my carpet
3. brought in a couch, loveseat & a chair and rearranged the rest
of the room by myself!
4. Moved my sons room into our spare room, his bed, entertainment center, moved everything from one closet to the other.
5. then i spent a good two hours cleaning his old room and making 200 trips up and down the stairs taking out garbage and old toys and clothes etc...
6. then I washed and vaccuumed his rug
7. Then I moved my bedroom from downstairs into his old upstairs bedroom, this includes moving a king size bed and a million trips up and down the stairs to bring stuff up. This whole process took me 14 hours. That is of non stop movement
8. then I cleaned out the leftovers in my old room and washed a vaccuumed that room
9. THEN...I spent an hour cleaning my basement
10. All this on top of my regular everyday stuff...cooking, laundry, chasing kids, dogs etc...
Basically since Saturday I have gotten more of a workout than I have in my whole entire life. I have been squeezing walks in there to. At work I take the stairs up and down 20 times a day. So WHY is it that on weigh in day (every Wednesday) I lost 0 pounds???? How can that be? I have been eating healthy and working my booty off and I get rewarded by losing nothing? I was only hoping for 2 and I couldnt even get that. I also drank TONS of water! I am very unhappy and am losing my faith in exercise! Anyone care to explain how this could happen?
Well, it just happens... It could be that you are at the bad time of the month where you pack up water rather than lose weight (in that case you should show double loss when your period starts), it could be that you exercised so much your muscles filled up with toxins and then were swollen with fluid to help flush all that trash, it could be that you ate more salty stuff at the end of the exercise...
My advice is to not pay too much attention. You eat right and exercise because you want to lose weight, all right, but also because you know it's the best thing for you. You can't really say you have lost faith in breathing because you swallowed the wrong way, can you? Just take it in stride and try to ignore what the scale tells you to concentrate on what your body tells you. Do you feel happier? In better mood? In better shape? More energetic? Do you digest better, have an easier time falling asleep? Do you enjoy yourself while you do all these things to better your life?
Of course it would be nice to see a drop on the scale as well. I have been waiting for one myself, for months now. In vain. But I do feel better about myself, because I know now my weight isn't the result of mistakes or laziness or greed. It just is, a challenge for me, a lesson to be learned.
I hope it won't be too long before you see an improvement. I also hope that venting helped a bit.
Have a very nice day!
I don't know about others but for me, weighing in once a week doesn't work for me. I prefer to watch it on a daily basis. Could be that, a day before, it was good and now it is just a small bump ahead.
I agree with youngbess. As a rule I only weigh myself once a week (Tuesday). But occassionaly, I show no weight loss on the Tuesday despite exercising regularly and eating healthy. But I find if I wait until the following week then I will show a larger than normal weight loss. Also, sometimes I cheat and weigh myself on the next day and it usually shows a weight loss.
But try not to get caught up in numbers. Sounds like you were doing alot of heavy lifting so you may also be beginning to build muscle. Are you noticing differences in your clothing?
So you can log your weight -- which allows you to do the following:
- Plot your weight curve
- Analyze the trend of your weight (see under Recent in the figure above)
- Determine the projected target date (see under Overall in the figure above)