Friendly reminder to anyone on their weight loss journey. A new low on the scale is a new low. Stop worrying about it and appreciate it as a sign you're on the right track.
Maybe your progress has been slow, maybe you've been stuck at a plateau for awhile, all of a sudden, you see a new low on your scale one day. First comes euphoria, you did it, you're making progress again and the evidence is right there in front of you.
Then comes worry. You've been stuck in place for so long and suddenly the weight just comes off all at once? That can't be right. Maybe the scale is defective, there's no way you managed to lose so much weight at once. So you weigh yourself again, and again, and again. No change in the number, it's consistent.
You still don't dare to believe it. You think you'll wake up tomorrow and it'll all be a dream, you'll be back at the same weight you were the day before. And true enough, you weigh yourself the next day and that number is creeping back up again.
Worry and disbelief changes to disappointment. Too good to be true, as expected. You haven't progressed at all. Yesterday's numbers must have been due to water weight or something, not 'true' weight loss.
It's easy to sink into a bad mood and feel hopeless afterwards, but I'm telling you to cut that negativity out. Shifts in weight on a day to day basis are to be expected. There are any number of reasons why you hit a new low and suddenly regain weight despite still exercising and or eating at a deficit. Could be water retention after a salt/carb heavy meal or could just be, pardon my crudeness, you being full of shit.
Weight loss isn't a straight line, it's more playing with a yo-yo on an escalator going down. That new low you glimpsed for a day wasn't some fluke or error with the scale, it was a sign that you're still on the escalator and it's still in motion.
Just think back, when you first started, was it even possible for such a number to appear? I highly doubt it. And if you don't give up, that fluke is going to become a regular number, and then it's going to be a high you'll be seeing less and less of until one day, even the highest number you see on your scale is less than that.
Remember, today's improbable low is tomorrow's impossible high. So don't give up and have faith in yourself.
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