I've had a lot of ups and downs for the past week and a half. First of all, I made the huge mistake of buying a snack size bag of Lay's potato chips, thinking just a little bit wouldn't hurt. WRONG! I have a problem with too much salt, and apparently I have been getting enough sodium in my regular diet that the chips just pushed it into critical mass. When I overdo the salt, I retain water, which seems to build up fluid in my inner ears, which makes me dizzy. I also developed a headache. (My body will take any kind of stress and manifest it as a headache.)
So I broke my rule and drank a Dr. Pepper. The caffeine is a diuretic, which helps to flush out the retained water. It wasn't enough to kill the headache though, and I took some Excedrin, which is my last resort because it makes me feel sick and very jittery. So I ate a large amount of chocolate, which for me is like a tranquilizer that doesn't put me to sleep.
After all this self-medicating, I was dreading what the scale would say on Thursday morning. Sure enough, I was up 3 pounds. It was so depressing I totally put off posting. But then the next morning, I was back down to where I had been the week before. Weird!
On Thursday night, out of the blue, my husband's sister called to say she and her husband were coming up for the weekend, and they were bringing us a Wii! She uses Wii Fit every day and loves it, and she is worried about my husband's health and wanted him to have an easy way to exercise. They got here on Friday night and my son, our resident tech expert, set up the Wii. It said I am 3.5 pounds heavier than our scale said that morning, but some of the difference could have been evening weight versus morning weight, and fully clothed versus not. At least that's what I tell myself. My body fat in the overweight range, but my Wii Fit Age is only 42, or 5 years younger than my real age.
This morning I stepped on the bathroom scale again and I'm back to where I was before the potato chips.
2 comments:
You are wise to watch the water retention - if it's going into your ears, you might be in pre-stages of Meneire's Disease, which is treated by ... guess what ... eating low sodium. :)
I'm impressed with how well you know your body and what you need to do to counteract the effects of various things, even when they do turn into snowballs. :o)
One word about the scale: Every scale is going to be slightly different, and some even a little more than slightly. Don't compare your weight on one scale to your weight on another. I would personally just track one or the other, but if you do weigh yourself on both, watch and get an idea of whether they're consistently 3 lbs different, for instance, so you can fix the numbers up in your head before you panic. ;o)
Good luck!!
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