Well... Let's be honest...

OK. So I gained weight again.

0.6lbs... but still. It is not a loss.
It was not a perfect weigh in since I have been starving for the last 2 days (weather?) and I had to eat lunch before heading to the CALERIE site for my weigh-in/counseling session. There may have been some extra food/water weight that factored into this weigh-in. We can not be sure since I have been "afraid" of stepping on the scale this week. To remedy my irrational fear, I have made a schedule to weigh myself every other day for the next two weeks. Which will be timely, since in two weeks from today I will have my 9-month physical and I would like to be in a restricted state...

But needless to say- the CALERIE counselor was very supportive and helpful- despite my gain. They have never been negative, or reprimanding, or even terse. I do not think it would help matters if they were -- and it is probably better that they are not any of those things -- I just have to remind myself that these "slip-ups" are data as well as my CR data- and I am not really destroying their study by gaining weight...


What I am going to do new in the these upcoming weeks is actually plan out my dinner ahead of time (calories included) so that I do not go into dinner thinking "I have 600cal left for dinner, and this meal here is-- ohh-- about 600 calories." Then in reality it turns out to be 750 and I am over again for the day. That will involve some mental calculation, which for whatever reason I hate to do. There is something about seeing the numbers in black and white on my PDA that makes it real. I think though for life after CALERIE it will help me to be able to do more mental calculating.

I will also keep posting. I love all the support :)