Mon, Mar-10-03, 16:51
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Cat Sofa
Posts: 2,555
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Plan: PP/Atkins
Stats: 1/1/51
BF:
Progress: 0%
Location: Seattle
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Arrow,
I'm not sure I understand. Has your average weight gone up every week for the five weeks, or is it up for this week only? Or has it been up and down? Is your weight lower now than when you started? (Sorry, I should have checked your stats before I started typing here.)
You see, my average goes up as well as down, too. In fact, about every third week I have an "up" week. I wrote once before about how I lost twelve pounds in the first week and a half, and then gained it back steadily over the next two weeks without having cheated. It's in my journal, if you want to see it. It took me another two weeks to drop to my previous level and then a little below it, but immediately on hitting that new low I climbed again - 8 pounds this time, instead of 12. Held at the top of that gain for three days, and then a glorious two and a half week drop (15 pounds this time, including the ones that came back) to another new low. And now I'm in another climbing phase. My weight chart looks like the Bush stock market graph -- big drops followed by big gains, but with the overall trend inexorably downward.
I also hoped that because of my weight I would have a steady series of big losses - at least at first. That's what all the case stories for people my size in the books look like -- but my body obviously doesn't work that way. And apparently neither does yours, unfortunately. What I have found, though, is a discernable pattern in my body's madness -- and while I've re-gained eight pounds in the last two days, this time it's a brand new eight pounds. I've never regained this lot before!
So I guess what I'm saying at great length is what everyone else said much more succinctly -- hang in there, let us help if we can, and ultimately, you'll get there.
--Ruth
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