Salty yo-yos

As suspected, I was up at my WI this week, up 2lbs to be precise. I had a chat with my leader about it because I'm concerned that I can't seem to hit a healthy weight loss pattern and although I wasn't good this week I thought 2lbs was a bigger gain than deserved. She looked at my last few weeks and immediately said, this is fluid, without a doubt. My overall loss is ok but fluctuations like this, ie, a huge loss of 4 or 5lbs one week followed by a gain of 2lbs the next, is a clear indication of fluid retention. I talked to her about my concerns over extra sodium from eating out and she agreed that was probably the problem, and looking at my past weeks I had the big losses on the weeks I didn't eat out. So her suggestion was to add more water, which I am trying to do anyway, and add at least another litre for every hour of exercise. She also wants me to track my foods for the next few weeks and print them out for her to look at. I really want to kick this one in the butt and get to a healthier pattern of 1-2lbs a week.

I also attempted to do the Points plan for a week and only made it for a day and a half! I really thought it would be a good exercise for me to try and shake things up a bit but it was bad news from the get-go. To start with, when I did the quiz to set my daily points allowance I was shocked to find I was only allowed 19 a day. When I started the programme 3 months or so ago I was given 21 so I immediately felt conned! I remembered how I fell off the plan years ago, I felt like I was being punished by being allowed less food the more weight I lost. That and the fact that I was STARVING all the time, I just didn't feel like I was getting enough food. So on Wednesday I was excited because I had sushi for lunch and was looking forward to having pizza one night later in the week, but by Thursday lunchtime I was feeling hungry and disillusioned. Then I looked at my food tracker for those 2 days and noticed 2 things:

1. Apart from the sushi, my foods were pretty much Core plan because that's how I eat all the time, and that's why Core works so well for me
2. I didn't feel like I was eating as healthily because I wasn't getting the amount of fruit I was on Core, since I never seemed to have enough points left for more snacks

I decided I wasn't going to last the week so I switched back to Core before too much of the week was gone, and felt really relieved after that! On Valentine's night J and I went to a nice local Italian place for dinner and I ordered a Core pasta but he had pizza and I got to eat a little piece of it. It tasted heavenly and I got the craving out of my system. I also had a piece of the chocolate tart J had bought for dessert and savoured every bite. I had enough flex and activity points to cover it and I counted it all so I feel pretty good.

In other news, we finally found a flat! Yay! It's a really nice place and we're excited. We move in in 2 weeks, fingers crossed. It means I finally get my evenings back, which is very cool. I've hardly had a moment to blog or catch up on blogs so apologies for not keeping up with everyone lately. Hope everyone is doing great and thanks for all the great and supportive comments.