whoosh effect

Jan 07, 2015

Reading up on the Whoosh Effect on weight loss.  I haven't been losing evenly,  so decided to read up on it before letting serious depression set in. I "stalled" what seemed like quickly out of the gate. I was told it wasn't really a stall, so I began looking for other terminology for what was happening. As you may have read in my previous blog, I soon dropped what seemed like about 10 pounds within 3 days. Whoosh! It was gone. Now stuck again since then. Working on the things that might make me stall like drinking more water (getting easier daily) and getting my walking in. .. but also looking into the science of it, because I am a book nerd. 

So finding out that a whoosh of weight loss is a real thing, connecting that to ideas like adding calorie intake to kick start or simply increasing water intake (both hard to do for a new bariatric person). But looking at other diets that tell you to eat a steak after a cheat day is all making sense now. I ate some fried food (extra fat in my system moving things out. Lol) and bam, scale movement! Now I don't want to encourage bad eating, but eating some fried up calamari atJoe'scrabshack again seems like fun!

Kidding aside, my mind is more at ease knowing that losing in chunks, or whooshes, might just be what my body does. As long as I know I am eating right and following the plan, I can't feel badly for these agonizing (non)-stalls when they happen. I have lost 53 pounds. Nothing to sneeze at. I feel good and look better. I have a bag of clothing sitting at the door ready to go to the next lady needing 3x. That's some good stuff! 

Laters Gators.

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