Thanks Mom!

I had a convo with my mother, who’s a nurse, yesterday—whining about a minor gain despite doing everything the same. Medically and personally, she knows pretty much everything about weightloss and weight gain.  She reminded me of something I had forgotten about. When you burn fat, where does it go? It helps give the body energy for metabolic activities, generates heat, which helps maintain your body temperature, and waste products. These waste products — water and carbon dioxide — are excreted in your urine and sweat or exhaled from your lungs. The portion of the fat leaving your body in fluid form is fluid in your tissues first. Fluid weighs more than stored fat cells. A minor gain can be an indication that you are, in fact, losing. This often happens in stalls followed by a bigger loss. Fat loss is not a steady decline, it’s the up and down of normal metabolic processing. It made feel better about the small gain I had experienced despite doing everything the same.  Sure enough, I dropped farther this morning. Down to a total of 11.7 pounds in six weeks so far.  That's still a stunning average of nearly two pounds a week.  Thanks Mom!