Darkangeline's Journal, 26 January 2012

Try not to weigh yourself constantly. It will only frustrate you because you will see the scale differ up and down every time. Women's body weight can fluctuate up to five pounds every day and during the day due to water retention. It is best to pick one day of the week and weigh yourself only on that one day. Preferrably in the morning and naked (you will find that you weigh more in the evenings than what you do in the mornings). Don't cut your calories too short in hopes of a quicker weightloss, it can have adverse effects as you already realized yourself. Try to switch up your foods every day so that your body doesn't get used to a routine. And most of all - keep up the good work with your workout. Swimming is a great all over body workout and you WILL see a difference on the scale after one week. If the swimming isn't helping try walking. I used to kickbox twice a week until I read about fast twitch and slow twitch muscle building and realized that my kickboxing actually didn't help me lose weight but instead built bulky muscles, therefore making me heavier acutally. Once I read about the muscle building and different examples of how different athletes look like I realized that I needed to change my workout routine. Now I walk every day 4 miles in an hour and only go kickboxing once in a while (as I still do love the workout). My body has slimmed down and I am finally losing the weight in the places I am trying to get rid of it ;-)