Well, I weighed in and there was no change to my weight. I didn't gain anything and I didn't lose anything. I think my cheat day had something to do with it, but not in the way you would think.
I had a bacon cheeseburger and fries for lunch, and for dinner, I had half a cheese steak hoagie and an order of fried mushrooms. My calorie total for the day was 2674 calories. However when I average out my week, my daily average was 1991 calories. So I didn't gain weight from too many calories.
On Saturday, I ate o.k and was under my calories., but had grilled kielbasa sandwiches for dinner.
Sunday, my wife and I divided up the grocery shopping, I went out early and got an egg mcmuffin for breakfast, had soup and a sandwich for lunch and we ordered pizza for dinner. Again, I kept under my calorie goal.
Then I looked at my sodium numbers and I realized that on Friday and Sunday, I ate double the RDA of sodium and was over on Sunday by about 500mg.
Another contributing factor is that I increased the weight on each exercise in my strength routine last week.
I believe both factors are causing me to retain excess water. I'm willing to bet that everything will balance out next week. All I can do is keep tracking my calories and continue exercising and the weight will come off. It's not voodoo and there isn't a shortcut. Moderation and exercise... forever.
I have to admit it's the forever part that's daunting. It's so much easier to think that once I hit my goal weight I can stop, but I know what will happen if I do.
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