Amanda the Leaf
Full Member
Gained half a pound! Aside from my very first week it's the first time I've had a gain.
I've been 100% on plan (but do tend to have big portions) and had lots of exercise so I am pretty sure it's nothing I've done and I'm inclined to think that after 7 months of nothing but losses & 2 maintains, a gain was bound to happen.
There are 2 things I suspect of being the culprit....
1) my consultant is away this week so we have someone else and it was a different set of scales (although they are supposed to be the same all over and I don't want to be the person who blames the scales, which are only doing their job!);
2) I gave blood last weekend, so 9 days ago, and thought it might have replenished itself by the time I weighed in 48hrs later but maybe it takes longer than that (last time I gave blood is hard to compare as I hadn't weighed in for a fortnight, gave blood 3hrs before weigh-in, lost 5.5lbs in total, then maintained the following week).
Either way I just have to take it on the chin and chalk it up to experience. If I gain or maintain next week THEN it will be cause for concern; in the meantime I'm going to consider it something that was always bound to happen eventually.
I've been 100% on plan (but do tend to have big portions) and had lots of exercise so I am pretty sure it's nothing I've done and I'm inclined to think that after 7 months of nothing but losses & 2 maintains, a gain was bound to happen.
There are 2 things I suspect of being the culprit....
1) my consultant is away this week so we have someone else and it was a different set of scales (although they are supposed to be the same all over and I don't want to be the person who blames the scales, which are only doing their job!);
2) I gave blood last weekend, so 9 days ago, and thought it might have replenished itself by the time I weighed in 48hrs later but maybe it takes longer than that (last time I gave blood is hard to compare as I hadn't weighed in for a fortnight, gave blood 3hrs before weigh-in, lost 5.5lbs in total, then maintained the following week).
Either way I just have to take it on the chin and chalk it up to experience. If I gain or maintain next week THEN it will be cause for concern; in the meantime I'm going to consider it something that was always bound to happen eventually.