Silverslimmer wrote: Very disappointed, as with the exception of one day when I ate lunch out, I have been very careful and all I have done is lose the 1.2 lbs I put on last week so no real progress in two weeks. I don't know how you manage to lose on the 5:2 as I struggle with ADF. I do wonder if it is worth all the deprivation. I am going to give it another week and see how I fare but I do have another lunch out! If I hadn't done it successfully before I would be really concerned.
OK. Would you consider a slight change in perspective?
I've something over 2 1/2 years of every-morning and every-evening weight measurements. From these I can categorically state that our actual daily weight is very much like a cork on an ocean wave. As when sitting on a beach, what you see depends on when and where you look. Highs are obvious - Whoa! look at the crest on that one! (I hear grumbling at the weight scale.) Lows are sometimes missed or hard to see because they are often hiding behind the previous wave. (We're still mad at yesterday's cork, so we didn't even look today.)
High tide occurs after the evening meal which makes sense. Low tide always appears after getting up in the morning which also makes sense because we'd had nothing since the previous evening. Notably curious here, are that the lowest tides are often recorded mid-morning if - after getting up, you got busy and managed to skip both breakfast and liquids. So in all this, where's that flippin cork that we are so curious about? It has to be somewhere between the wave peaks and hollows, right?
My point? Wave induced ups and downs of 3-4 pounds (2k) every day is very normal. Individually these measures mean nothing if that wave doesn't also rise up high enough to travel up the beach soaking one's towel, pushing sand into sensitive places and tickling one's butt (arse) with the cork.
Earlier, you may have wondered where the weight goes overnight? Some of it goes with respiration - moisture and carbon dioxide from breathing; it's why canvas walls in pup tents get so wet overnight. The rest is the result of digestion - bodily processes that reveal a hidden value in those middle night (grumble...) gotta get-up-n-P trips! Weight trends that measure average cork height - are the only thing that can tell us a real, believable story.
So can we control the tide and with it, the height of the cork? To a great extent, yes.
How, you might ask?
Do you keep a daily food log? If you do, you can revisit that unexpected high tide and see that it might have been caused by an especially carby meal or two the day before. In order to be digested, carbohydrates require a consider amount of water, so you'll also learn that this storm will keep the tides higher than normal for the next few days.
Lastly, while accurate in their description of feelings, the words disappointed, struggle and deprivation along with an implied time constraint, can quickly and easily lead to self-defeat. Definitely a slippery and uncomfortable, sand-in-the-crotch, kind of slope.
Please consider substituting curiosity with a sense of adventure and a gleeful willingness to experiment as new sources of personal delight leading to a different towel on a different beach without the damned cork.