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Yesterday was a cheat day. I've been feeling physically weak lately - tired when I walk up stairs or uphill. It may be spring allergies but just in case I decided to have a cheat day. I try to once a week - sometimes I can't get myself to because I feel like I'm erasing all my hard work, but I know in the end it's better because I don't want my body to get too used to the lower calories. Anyway, I don't weigh in until Thursday (not that a scale would really indicate what one day's food would do) so I'll see how it goes. I read a lot of people worrying about gaining a pound in a day, or half a pound. That makes no sense to me since you could gain 2 pounds in fat and lose 3 in water weight and think you'd lost weight - or the opposite. Or you could gain 1 pound in muscle and lose 1/2 pound in fat and think you've gained. Well, I guess you have, but that kind of weight gain I'll take any day. By the time I was done losing last time I was starting to look skinny even though I worked out a lot. I need to figure out how to avoid that this time. For now, I'm just looking for an overall trend over the next few months. Of course every time I weigh in the number has an impact, but in the end it's just the direction of the graph line that I'm going to care about.
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