Engineer-Poet's Journal: Oh, fudge

I got on the scale this morning and found that I'd fallen back. WAY back. I don't know if it was the pasta or the one lapse with fries for lunch (salt), but pretty much all my progress was lost.

I guess it was all water. I'm going to have to work much harder (and watch my diet very closely) to make real strides.

It happens

[johndiii]

I expect as much as a three to five pound variance in a 24-hour period. There are too many different factors to make it regular. One of the things that they (whoever they are) say is not to weigh yourself every day. But I always have - I just do not take the individual numbers as gospel on my progress. Look for trends - for you, see what you weigh tomorrow. When I was serious about losing weight (unlike the last time, when I used the Divorce Diet and just did not feel like eating), I graphed the daily