Posts Tagged hydration

Day SEVENTEEN

It is a good thing that my scale not only shows weight loss but also fat and water percentages of the body and other stuff too. Else I would be now distraut. My weight has again gone up by almost 1/2 pound.

With other words, since about 4 days I am making – weight wise – a little Yo-Yo dance between the same numbers. So apparently I am not losing any weight. But, as mentioned in earlier posts, I was always a bit weary of the fast weight loss because my body fat percentage did not budge, not at all. That should have gone down too. Several percents even. But it didn’t. Usually  it goes like this for me on my scale:

  • If I lose weight but BF goes high, I know that it’s more water than usual and that my weight inevitably will go up again and the BF number drop.
  • If I don’t lose weight and the BF goes down I know I have too little water and need to hydrate better.
  • Correct thing is that weight and BF needs to go lower in ‘harmony’.

Losing 12 pounds with the BF staying put, I knew that this will at some point counter-balance. That point is now. As frustrating it is, at the same time it is relieving as now I see the FAT that I have lost on the scale: 2.7% by this morning. The body fat percentage the scale showed today is what I would expect it to be around my current weight. I’ve never been this low with this scale so I am not sure. Will see how it evens out over the next few days.

And I do hope to lose weight again soon – it is an incredible motivation booster.

Tags: , ,

Day ELEVEN

Back to 2 days veggies. I am past the halfway point. 12.4 pounds lost. Though once again I take todays numbers with a grain of salt. Slept badly with a lot of sweating, I think I lost a lot of water and I think this is in part the reason for todays low number. But below 140 pounds! Haven’t been that in years, many years. The beads to their magic. Currently I have to force myself to even eat the minimum, no appetite whatsoever. Fluctuating between being semi-okay to grief to numbness to some anger back to being semi-okay. The loss of Tricky is still overpowering all other feelings. Since it happened I have strong headaches from introversion and not even a walk eased it. Still using Advil to keep it at bay. Hoping to taper it off today.

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Day NINE

Today is the day were I get to change my beads before going to bed. New pressure points after that. And today is a day which feels like a win. Not only that I have lost more weight, but also my body fat is now finally dropping better and I also look a bit less puffed up. The past couple of days I drank roughly 1/4 more than recommended, but feel I could do even better and will continue working at this. I also had a good night sleep, it seems the chills are pretty much gone. My left arm still needs some slight attention, but absolutely no tingling, that is fully gone.

The big win though that I had this morning was looking for a pair of pants that fit me from my closet.

I knew that from a pair of slacks I like wearing that I had the same pants a size smaller in a 10, sitting far to the back tucked away. I had bought them either 2 or 3 years ago, thinking at the time that I’m almost there and with a little diet I could wear them. Since them I tried maybe 2 or 3 times to get in them but it was either not possible or such a squeeze it was ridiculous. So there they were, still tagged from the store. Of course you know what is coming: I tried them on and they went over hips and all in one fellow swoop. Not only do I fit into them, they are on the verge of falling off my hips and being too big! I hope they’ll keep on holding for another 2 weeks, I had not planned on buying clothes during the diet for the short time period I’m going to be on it. Hey, almost FALLING OFF. That’s a win. Definitely room between waste and body. Super cool. Last time I was down to this weight was 6 years ago when we moved to Kansas.

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Day SEVEN

Feeling good. Most of the first 2 – 3 days complaints have vanished, the odd numbness and tingling in my left arm and the slight headaches. Also the chills have strongly diminished.

Weight is beautifully dropping – almost 10 pounds since I began – but I still feel that I need to drink more. I do see the recommended amount rather as a minimum, the reason being that this is the same guideline I use for when I am not on a diet.

Today might be a bit of a challenge day as I’ve decided to face a get-together. But, even though I’ll have to skip on all of the good food and drink I am quite certain that I can overcome the cake and ice cream with one of these sweet Cherry Coke Zero’s.

Tags: , , , , ,

Good and bad.

The jury is out on 2 other products:

Great discovery:

SoBe lifewater – fuji apple pear [zero calories, natural sweetened with erythritol] is much better than anticipated and great for getting large quantities of hydration.

The bad:

La Croix sparkling soda – cran rasperry [zero calories, no artificial sweeteners] – it’s like drinking salted raspberry soda. Better choice: drink Perrier which does not have such a distinct salty taste and add a teaspoon of sugar free, calorie free raspberry sirup to it.

Tags: , , , ,