I've been at this for a while now, I see the scale go down, jump up and plateau all the bloody time - but it never seems to get easier for me. Yet what keeps me going is a piece of advice I read somewhere.
I don't recall where exactly (I am tempted to say the 4 hour work week), but the advise was whatever you choose to give up, you need to give yourself 2 weeks notice. If you decided to go to the gym and then after a week you're sick of it, that's fine but from the day you decided you had enough you have to keep going another 2 weeks and then you can quit. Funnily enough by that point, chances are you'll keep on going. I'll explain how this is relevant in a moment.
This last week I had some indulgences that probably took me up to around maintenance on 2 of the days and despite knowing I hadn't consumed 14,000 calories over maintenance - seeing the scales near 2 kilograms higher than just 2 days prior was really hard to swallow.
I knew that it was due to me eating later, eating more and holding more water that put the weight on but despite knowing clearly, and exactly why the weight was there - it did nothing to alleviate how destroyed I felt seeing that I was 2 kilograms higher than I was before. This was one of my bigger jumps up.
I had thoughts of throwing in the towel and "what's the point?" and "I'm a failure" and "I should just quit" and "I should just go ahead and start stuffing my face again" but I fought against them. On the 16th I ballooned up to 136.1 kilograms, and this morning I weighed 134.6. In 3 days I got back on track. Had I given in due to my stupid emotional overreaction, I'd be in an actual worse position than my imagined one.
My advice to those of you starting out is as hard as it is, when you see the scale jump, give it a few days before you choose to react. You can't help how you feel, but you can help how you react. This was an especially hard couple days on me because the jump up was so much bigger than I was used to from previous occasions but I persevered and it came out good again.
You don't have to give yourself 2 weeks, but if you find yourself like me having thoughts of giving up or wanting to just binge in despair - wait things out a few days before doing anything. It'll give enough time for things to balance out and for you to regain your composure. In the end you'll find that you'll forget about it all and you'll be reinvigorated to start back up again.
Hope this helps some of you when you go through a rough patch :)
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