Hello everybody,
My grandkids ( 13 y/o girl and 10 y/o boy) have been here all week and I’ve not had time to read the posts thoroughly or to post in reply.
rlw66, I saw your post when skimming. Don’t be alarmed. I’ve been at this since April 11th and there were days I have gone up 3 pounds and the next day another pound up. Then, two days later it’s all gone.
That, I can tell you, is mostly from “msg”, from fast food or restaurant food, or from salt on food you’ve eaten. Water weight. The best thing you can do is to drink plain water, eat some salad greens for lunch, and keep your proteins low in salt. That means probably not canned fish or chicken. Bake a nice chicken breast or a fish fillet.
As far as the tape measure: like K-Lo, I am not great with the tape, but in all honesty, I don’t think most people are. I mean, really, each time you do it, it may be a couple centimeters from where you put the tape last time. As With everything, you just have to average it.
Online calorie counters are not accurate, but give you ball park. Online activity monitors give you ball park. Same with fitbits, pedometers, whatever. They give you an idea but there is probably a 20% error, plus or minus in the readings they give. Tape measures, too.
Just be patient and keep doing the 5:2 as you can and I would bet you would lose weight over time. Certainly over a year.
So, don’t get crazy and obsessive over it! Patience is a virtue! Good luck everyone!
6:29 am
14 Jul 16