Weigh in Day

Okay, so I fixed my scale and ended up putting off weigh in day by one day because I read that when your muscles are sore you should put off weighing in because your muscles retain water to heal themselves, and let me tell you I was sore- it was terrible to just sit down I was so sore! Check this out:

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* After are hard workout, glycogen is depleted and when you eat sugar (from simple or complex carbs) your muscles will soak up a fair amount of it along with some water right away. 

* When you work out hard, you get tiny micro-tears in your muscles. To repair, they retain some water to help the process along. 

* Once your muscles get better even though maybe not fully healed, your body starts to move the water, waste, blood, etc. through you muscles much more normally causing you to “lose” the weight.

(the full article is at http://run4change.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/qa-post-weight-gain-after-events-sore-muscles-and-hard-efforts/)

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So the results were in this morning and I was scared as I waited for the scale to decide what it wanted to say.....

Starting weight : 148.6 lbs
Weigh in week one : 146.8 lbs

That was a weight loss of 1.8 lbs this week and I am happy about that!!!! Hard work does pay off, even if it's not as quickly as you may like!