I didn’t even think about this while I was at the doctor’s office weighing in and I was quite upset… Thoughts like WTF do you mean I gained 9 pounds. The scale cannot be accurate. If I am going to gain weight why am I paying for the privilege?  And other such pleasantries… (My apologies for not writing up my weigh in last week, I wrote the post, but I was unable to come to grips with it until I proved it was indeed water retention.)

The bottom line is that I am close to being able to go off the blood pressure meds, but I am not quite there. So I started taking my meds again and this week I lost 10.9 pounds… Much of which is surely the water I was retaining while off my meds, but some is also fat…  

I did the entire body composition test this week and my ratio of extracellular water to total body water was .392 (it was .390 in the 2 previous tests). So I feel primed for another outsized gain next week (although maybe not 10+ pounds) as my water ratio comes back into balance… Regardless I feel much better having identified what caused the previous weeks weight gain because I knew it wasn’t from cheating… I am also proud of myself for sticking to the diet in the face of adversity…  I am going to be thin and stay thin for the rest of my life…

Here is a graph of my weight loss (if you are reading this in the future this graph will have updated for future weigh ins as well)… Clicking the image will open to a larger image.

This week marks my drive for 50% of my final goal… 70.2 pounds is exactly 50% of the way to my final goal… (In reality my goal is not weight based, but BF% based. I want to get below 20% body fat. So the approximate weight goal of 250 pounds is being used as an easy measuring stick.) To reach that milestone I need to lose 8.7 pounds… I think between the water and the psychological carrot of 50% done I can make it…

Until next week… Enjoy the articles and keep the comments coming…