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Date Posted: 06:48:17 08/01/02 Thu
Author: Kel
Subject: Thinking of boycotting my scale again

My scale often discourages me. For example, there are days when you are good on your diet, and there are other days where you are super-good. Yesterday I had a super-good day, where there is NOTHING I did that was wrong; everything was right, even the portions of protein (which I have a problem controlling sometimes). Scale still shows 142.

I'm thinking of boycotting the darned thing for a week or two just so I don't get discouraged by it again. I woke up psyched to start the new 3-day challenge, and instead now I'm in the "why-bother" mode simply because of what the scale said.

I'm going to overcome this mood today though, because I know I'm doing everything right. Yesterday I did my weight-training at the PD gym for an hour. Today I feel all bloated and my rings on my fingers are strangling me. If it's going to make me puffy every time I work out, I gotta tell ya, I'm thinking of stopping the workouts. I don't like feeling puffy. I'm trying to do the weight training to HELP me, not make me retain water and feel bloated. What does everyone else do about this problem?

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I've heard that the puffiness is from your muscles retaining water to help them with the building process. I don't know what can be done about it, but I've also heard that the more you work out the better it gets. Hang in there, sis!!! You're looking mighty fine these days! (NT) -- Katie, 06:50:44 08/01/02 Thu
Hey! What was that??? I know what that was. It was 137 calling your name. Did you hear it too? If you want to skip the scales for a week or so, I'll do it with you. (NT) -- Katie, 06:53:32 08/01/02 Thu
Kel -- Sherry, 08:22:40 08/01/02 Thu
- Yeah but your experience w/ weight training has also shown you to have "feel good" hormones afterward too. My experience is that I'm tired, weak and sweaty - no feel good there. Also this puffy crap has occurred every day following such a workout and I'm sick of it. (NT) -- Kel, 12:34:50 08/01/02 Thu
SCALE: I sure didn't watch it everyday i was gaining....and it's certainly not natural to watch it every day of loosing. I want losing weight to be as effortless as gaining ... hence..NO SCALE (NT) -- Octobersan, 15:06:06 08/01/02 Thu
- Well... you sure do have a point there! (NT) -- Kel, 16:50:23 08/01/02 Thu