Okay ... vent away!! Why specifically are you blaming the Flex Points? Did you eat some of them? Did you have a week where you did anything different? Tried new foods, ate a lot of frozen (in other words, SALTY) foods? Did you drink your water? Did you change your workout routine? Are you eating enough points? If you don't eat at least your target, you probably aren't getting enough calories, especially with us because we do Cathe!! You weigh in in the evening, so are you dressing with more layers now that it's cold? That's the thing about having to weigh in later in the day. Food has weight. Even water has weight, and if you eat or drink anything "heavier" than you usually do, the scale will reflect the weight of the food or drink as well as your clothes, shoes, etc. The 2.6# might not even be real. Are you TOM? That will put as much as five or six pounds of water weight on some women, which of course is not "real". Shifting fluids from hormones can cause what looks like a weight gain. I know I'm throwing a lot of questions at you here, but I guess the point is, look at anything and everything you did this past week. If you stuck to the program, and didn't do anything you think may have caused a "true" gain, then in all likelihood you did not gain a true 2.6 pounds. I mean, think about this for a minute ...
To lose one pound of true fat, we have to cut our calorie intake by 3500, right? Whether we do that in one week or two, we still have to do that. So, doesn't it also make sense that to gain a pound we'd have to eat an extra 3500 calories? Okay ... before everyone comes on here and gives me WAY more details than I need about fat gain and water gain, etc., let me say I'm only using these rough numbers as an example, okay? Thanks!! Anyway ... it's difficult for me to believe you were able to consume an extra 7000 plus calories in one week. You'd have to eat about a hundred Big Macs, and even I couldn't do that - LOL!! Fifty maybe .... }( okay ... five. And that would be over a week's time - LOL!
The point I'm trying to make is, you probably didn't gain 2.6 pounds. It was probably fluid, or clothes, or who knows what. Do what you do, stick to the program, see if you can find the culprit from last week if there is one, and wear as little as possible next Tuesday evening when you weigh in! Try those tuck jumps maybe ...
Just teasing!
I'm off to bed, but if you need to email me, please know you can!! Im here!!
Carol
