Not losing weight? Don’t give up!

Hello! This is a post for anyone who is disappointed with their weight on the scales – please don’t give up.

That sinking feeling….

You’ve been sticking to your diet religiously, you’ve been doing your exercises consistently, and it’s come to weigh in time.

You’re feeling nervous, excited to see what the numbers say, anxious. You’ll be having a conversation with your weight loss buddy, or with your internal self, “I’ve been good, I’ve worked hard, I should have lost weight. But what if I haven’t. No, surely I have!”

You approach that set of scales with a mix of excitement and trepidation – you step and wait, and then….

Angry, guilty, upset!

Angry – You’ve put so much effort in – what’s going on!

Guilty – Oh, maybe that sneaky bar of chocolate in the entire week of goodness has killed all your efforts.

Upset – Why does this happen to you – heaven know’s your trying your damn best!

Well, guess what – it’s not always as disappointing as those numbers tell you. I had a very interesting read out on the chemist scales over the weekend, and I found it really enlightening. So much so, that I thought I should dedicate a blog just to that – with an aim to encouraging any the weight loss journeyers out there who have been, or will be, in the above mentioned scenario.

Last week I lost absolutely no weight. None. And yet….

I am absolutely DELIGHTED with the results of my readout – to explain, the scales I use also give a read out of my fat composition, this is not usually information I bother to look at, the only number that mattered to me was the overall weight. But on looking on the bottom of my print out, it showed a reduction of 1.9kg of fat, that’s just over 4lb of lard! GONE!

I’m guessing I’ve looked at weight only scales thousands of times over the years, and I’m thinking about all those weeks where I was hoping for a reasonable weight loss, only to be so utterly disappointed, and I have thought “What’s the bloody point!” And there have been plenty of times where I’ve then gone straight to the cupboard and opened the ’emergency’ huge bag of crisps and scoffed the lot – only to feel more miserable and down and then to have a few bad days – Oh my word, all that heartache I could have saved myself!

So please, don’t be disheartened – If you know you’ve put the effort in, and you were deep down expecting a weight loss, there’s every possibility that the nasty stuff, the fat, has actually depleted, you might just be holding onto more fluid than usual!

I would recommend maybe once a month popping to a chemist/shop where you can get a read out like above. This week has so helped me with my motivation, and it may just help with yours too 🙂

Reasons why we might not lose overall weight:

• Hormones
• Water retention
• muscle growth

I shall be starting to take my measurements soon, I’ve heard that’s a great way to see how our bodies are changing 🙂

I do hope this blog post finds anyone who needs it. Keep going – you can do this!