Friday 21st August - Weigh-in Update

Well, today I am an unhappy bunny. A very, unhappy bunny.

I have gained! I’ve weighed myself today and I’m all the way back up to 192lbs/87kg. In the past three days I have consumed approximately 2200 calories, two of those were fast days and on the middle day I had a single meal of chicken breast and couscous.

The worst part is that two days ago I weighed 189lbs/85.8kg. How have I managed to gain 3lbsin two days? One of those days was a fluid fast.

I weigh myself every couple of days to try and keep track of any challenges and unpleasant trends. I was feeling great when I saw that measurement and thought it spelled good things for the upcoming update here.

However unhappy I’m feeling at this result, I do know that there is a reason for it.

I mentioned at the beginning of this blog that the hubby and I want to start a family. Well, we have started on that quest. This month is the first without hormone intervention against pregnancy.

For the past ten years I have been mercifully free of the unpleasantness that women suffer by virtue of being women. This month has marked a return to the old me (trust me, I’m not proud) and I’m relearning my cycle.According to my cycle chart I should be ovulating and that is known to have just as much effect on a woman’s weight as being on her period and sometimes more, depending on the woman.

I had to look-up all this stuff, I have forgotten so much that every woman in her twenties takes for granted.

I am going to add in an extra weigh-in, next week, to see if the reason really was due to ovulation (or if my body is in rebellion). I would like to see a corresponding drop in weight that matches my food ‘piety’ this week I'm not holding my breath.

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