For those of you that go straight for the graph... I didn't cheat last week, but I was quite down on myself until I figured out what on earth had happened that caused me to gain 9 pounds in a week... (I bet the women already know) WATER. My blood pressure had been low enough to test going off my blood pressure medication... (One component of which is hydrochlorothiazide, a diuretic that makes you pee a lot to reduce the amount of water in your system.)

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...

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