FRIDAY - 3/16
I've been debating whether or not to share this information with the blog for a couple of reasons. I've been doing so well and I don't want to have to admit publicly that something has gone wrong this week. But since I've tried to be brutally honest on here I've decided that I'll its only right that I do.
I'm sure there's a number of things playing into this, but I weighed myself this morning and I was 145.8. I freaked. I nearly cried. I complained and I didn't listen to a word Mark had to say when he was calming me down. That's a MONTH's worth of progress gone this week - if that's true. Now that I'm slightly calmer I'm trying to figure out what's going on. I had some cheat foods this week - pad thai, pizza, and wings + fries. However, to legitimately gain that much weight I'd have to have eaten like 15,000 extra calories, which I did not. I have been very stressed. Yesterday, I was very thirsty. Maybe some of it is water weight? Either way, I feel terrible about it. I feel like I've totally failed at this right now. I'm completely embarassed and frustrated. I've worked so hard and it confuses me that I went on vacation and had cheat foods and didn't work out much and I didn't fluxuate, but here I've been working out and this happens? How is this possible?
I'm sure you know where this is going....I'm going back to paleo without cheats. I cannot have come this far to only to slip back to where I was. It's just not happening.
MONDAY - 3/19
Okay, so to update my weight first yesterday I was 141.8. I felt relieved that it was back down and Mark was more convinced that it was just an outlier. Maybe it was because of some salty food and water weight? I have no idea. I'm just glad I'm going in the right direction again. We're definitely going back to paleo still though.
Saturday was an OLY "meet" at the gym. I was insanely nervous about doing this and almost skipped going to the gym all together. Even though I didn't do my lifts in front of the entire group (nor did I want to) I got PR's on snatch and clean and jerk.
- Snatch: My previous PR was 26 kg and Saturday I put up 28 kgs. That's 61.6 lbs.
- Clean and Jerk: My previous PR was 37 kg and Saturday I put up 41 kg. That's 90.2 lbs.
Just to wrap things up I'll just say that things have been so busy that its been really hard to update. I think part of my issue this weekend was the weight thing, but I've relaxed a bit. We also hit up Burger Bar this weekend and I ate paleo so I'll review that asap. :)
I completely understand the panic (been there, trust me) but I wouldn't be too devastated over it because water weight does play tricks on you. As well as muscle mass. My weight fluctuates 5 lbs in a day, even up to 7 depending on what I consumed! And I've learned that it's normal. It all depends on each individual how high or low that retention window goes... but I realized that weighing myself on the scale everyday was torture and definitely messing with my head! Took me a while but I've stopped that other than once every couple/few weeks, lately a month (due to the Whole30 challenge) and rather focusing my attention on BF% :)
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