Weigh-In 3/18/08

All right.  That’s it.  I quit.  Okay, not really, but I am getting pretty darn frustrated here.  After yet another week of sticking to the plan and doing what I’m supposed to, the scale showed a gain of 1.4 pounds today.  Argh.

I’ve been keeping an Excel spreadsheet ever since I started Weight Watchers that tracks and graphs out my weight, losses/gains, how much I need to lose, my BMI, leftover flex points, goals (and pounds needed to be lost to meet them), activity points, measurements, etc.  Yeah, I know I’m showing my geekiness here, but it’s pretty darn cool if I do say so myself (and I do).  Anyway, I was looking back over the past several months and I’ve been playing around with the exact same three pounds since January.  Gaining and then losing and then gaining and then losing.  It’s like I’m on the roller coaster ride from hell.  I really do think I may be on a plateau.  I know there were a couple of weeks that I kind of sabotaged myself, but all of the other weeks I’ve been a good girl!  I don’t get it.  Maybe my body is on strike, saying “okay, enough, let me get used to this” or something.

I miss the early days of my weight loss.  For the first seven months I was on WW, I didn’t have a single gain!  I lost every single week.  I guess that’s what they call the honeymoon period.  I also realized that most of my issues began when Weight Watchers switched to a new point system in January 2007.

So, there’s a few things I can play around with.  I’ve been kind of slacking on getting all of my water in and on getting my activity points/exercise in lately, so I’m going to work on those for a couple of weeks and see what happens.  If I continue this pattern of gaining and losing, then I may look into going back to the old points system.  I value every point I have like it is a precious piece of gold or even a child but it might be worth trying the old system (on which I’d lose a daily point or two) for a while to see if it can kickstart my losses again.

Please wish me luck!