I will not be discouraged because I feel like this ALWAYS happens when I get in gear to lose weight, I end up gaining a little and then losing. So I am not going to sweat my almost 2 pound weight gain that has increased my weight loss goal to 12 pounds. But I am going to need to modify my eating habits a little. I have this weird tendency to justify eating high calorie foods because I worked out…and losing weight and getting in shape doesn’t actually work that way! LOL! So I probably should say no to the peppermint mocha coffee (that I did not order ‘skinny’) and the mozzarella sticks (even if I only ate 3). 🙂 We all make mistakes right!
So why did I gain nearly 2 pounds?! I think this is how my body is reacting to my increased workouts. Fat is an energy source and my body knows that I am now burning more energy which means I need to store more energy, so in the initial days of working out your body adjusts to this added calorie or energy burn and starts to store additional energy causing a slight weight gain that is non essential since you are going to burn the additional calories and then some. 🙂 I am terrible at taking my own advice, but I really should stay off the scale for at least a week, and only get on in weekly increments! But when I walk into the bathroom it just seems to call to me, so after this mornings disappointing weigh in I have hidden my scale in my bathroom cupboard. Maybe I will forget to weigh in for a couple weeks and miraculously lose my whole 12 pounds!! 🙂
As for my workouts, I have not made it to the park to go for a walk once this week…oops. Its just really hard to get out of the house when there is so much to be done in the house. I have however been hopping my fat ass on the treadmill and walking while Vanessa naps and catching up on shows while getting my exercise. My knee is in repair, and with the brace on I actually don’t have any pain, so I think we are getting somewhere with this! I hope to add jogging by January 🙂 I did write that I wanted to do abs and arms and have not done either yet this week…what can I say I’m a work in progress!