Not sure what my plan of attack should be
I'll start with a positive note :) I did the workout today that I missed yesterday. WHOO!! I can really feel it when I'm done. Not in a bad, I-can't-walk-I'm-so-sore way or anything like that. Just a deep I can feel my abs and other muscles have worked good way.
I'm just really at a point where I'm not sure how to hit this anymore. Nothing seems to be working. I know I need to give it more time, that I've just really begun getting the workouts in consistently again. But I want the weight off NOW like so many of us do. Sigh. Weighing daily has always helped me in the past. Always. It keeps me on track and focused. I can deal with each days fluctuations, I just use the weight on Friday generally as my actual weight to let me know how I've done over the period of a week. But my weight is just bouncing all over right now :( I've never had this problem before and I'm not sure what's going on. I'll be down 4 lbs and then back up a pound and then up 3 lbs and it just keeps going back and forth within this window of several pounds up and several pounds down.
I know a lot of people will say STAY OFF THE SCALE, and for them, yes, that's probably the answer. Staying away from the scale is the worst thing for me though. It lets me get my mind away from what I really need to do and I can gain 10 lbs in a very short period of time if there's a part of my brain that thinks, 'hey, we don't have to step on that scale so none of this matters'. So, for me, the scale is a very, very important tool. I don't obsess over the numbers, I use them to keep me in check and keep me in bounds. I REFUSE to allow myself to start gaining again (well, any more than I've gained during the time dad was in the hospital and the 2 months following that when exercise was non-existent for the most part). I don't have the money to buy new clothes period, let alone going UP again. I will NOT go there ever, ever again. Ever.
So, I've got to figure out what is going on. I'm going to give it a week and hope that it's just the shock of doing this new workout to my body and it's confused :) If the scale isn't starting to get into a more normal mode I'll have to look deeper.