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This is most definitely a What the Smurf Weigh-In. I knew I gained last week. This has been a crazy week at work, so stress levels have been high. Not that it’s been a bad week at work, but it has definitely been stressful, so I know my diet hasn’t been 100%. Still, I would have given myself an 85% on my diet. Not great but definitely not bad. And my exercise has been spot on. I’ve exercised every day.

So you can imagine how I felt when I hopped on the scale Friday morning, and I saw this number staring back at me.

339.5.

Uhm, what? That’s six pounds heavier than last friday. (6.1 to be exact)

Okay, that’s wrong. I must have been standing weird. Let me try that again.

339.5.

No, that can’t be right.

Well, I proceeded to weigh myself a few more times, and it kept giving me the same weight.

Scale isn’t broken. I somehow gained six pounds in one week.

What the Smurf?

I don’t know what I did wrong. I can’t even beat myself up too much, because this is such an illogical weight gain. Did I sleep walk and eat a canister of salt Thursday night?

This is part of the reason why I didn’t post yesterday. I was a little too disheartened. I didn’t want to come on here and own up to six pounds, for two reasons. One, six pounds? Yikes, freakin’ embarrassing. And two, I can’t even say what I did to EARN this six pounds and therefore prevent it. If I’d had a binge-y week, I’d happily say, “This is my mistake, I’m owning it, and I’m fixing it.” But the best that I can say is, “I don’t know why it happened, and I guess I’ll try better next week?”

But I don’t want to leave this unresolved, and after thinking all day yesterday, this is my solution.

I’m going to stay on program this weekend. No wavering, no wiggles, nothing.

And Monday (which happens to be my 32nd birthday, Happy Birthday to Me) will be my next weigh-in day. I was thinking about doing that anyway, because I want to be able to say on my 33rd birthday, “Yeah, I was one hundred pounds heavier on my 32nd.”

That will give me an idea of yes, this was a real weight gain, but I’ve managed to lose at least a pound of it or two, or look at that, I lost like five pounds over the weekend, so I guess it really was water retention. Damn sleep walking salt eating habits!

And starting next week, my weigh-in day will become Saturday. I think this will be a better day for me. Because I don’t work on Saturdays, and I want to start doing a video with each weigh-in, I’ll be able to get my weigh-in blog (and vlog) post up sooner than I can on Friday.

I’m also going to be doing away with my $5 Weekly Goals. I’m going to set Monthly Goals instead. That’s where I’ll come up with my money for my giveaways. I’m just finding myself not even thinking about my weekly goals, and if I’m not challenging myself with them, then what’s the point?

But speaking of giveaways, it is time to announce the winner of my most recent. The winner of the two canisters, one vanilla and one blueberry, of Biggest Loser Protein Powder is… Brandon from So Long Fat Ass! Congratulations Brandon! Please email me at jeremy@stellarpath.net with your mailing address and I’ll get the canisters out to you next week.

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