If you listen to nothing else that I say, please, please, please listen to this:
You have GOT to stop giving the scale so much power.
Not only can it not determine what you are worth, it can’t even accurately determine what you weigh!
That scale can only measure your total body mass at the exact moment you are standing on it.
It can’t tell you if the weight is fat, or muscle, or water, or even poop! It just tells you the grand total of all that is there at the moment.
So, if you’re up two pounds, so what? You don’t even know what that two pounds is.
I just weighed myself pre and post workout.
I even peed before I weighed the second time.
So, unless my 5 calories of BCAAs made me gain two and a half pounds of muscle (I wish) or fat, why does that jump matter?
So, why does two pounds difference matter to you?
Take measurements such as the scale with a grain of salt. By all means, track your progress but please, please, please don’t let a little jump cause you pain or stress or to give up.
That number does not mean you aren’t making progress. If it did, I’d refuse to go to the gym ever again because obviously that’s going to make me weigh 500 pounds by June.
Stop giving the scale power...that’s what batteries are for.