Water.

I have had a few frustrating scale days.  Basically, despite getting exercise and eating properly, I haven't seen the scale budge at all.  In fact, it went up a couple pounds in one day.  Thank goodness I am pretty rational and knew it was mathematically impossible for me to have gained anything.  Just knowing what I am doing, I can rest assured that there is some strange fluctuation.  Well, I was reading around the internet about different things and saw that one reason people might have issues with the scale is if they don't drink enough water.  Well, I know I don't drink enough water.  In fact, I don't drink much anything.  I usually have one diet soda with dinner -- I just like having the fizzy drink when I eat and diet cola has 0 calories so I go with that.  But this said that when you don't give your body the water it needs it will save every drop it gets because it doesn't know the next time it will get water.  This can account for weight on the scale.  That was enough to get me going!  I downed a huge thing of water.  So this morning I got back on the scale and it reflected that I lost more.  That was more along what I had expected.  That made me decide that my new thing would be making sure I get enough water everyday.  I know people always suggest using flavors and stuff, but I am just not a fan of those kinds of things.  I like water plain.  It's just I don't always think to drink it.  So now, if I have a soda I follow it up with double the water.  And I have been keeping a big thermos of water with me to drink throughout the day.

One thing on my mind is going out to dinner for Mexican soon.  It's been about a month since I had it but I have a goal that I want to accomplish and I have about 3 weeks to do it and I'm worried that if I do indulge that it might make me retain water (like usual due to all the sodium).  I'm thinking maybe pushing it to my birthday (AUG 10!!!) and then having it as a reward.  I don't know.  In the last month I have only went out once (Mexican) and had fast food once (as I detailed earlier).  It is this back and forth that I have going on.  I literally have 3 weeks to lose 7 lbs.  I just don't know.  I'm sure that if I start to pick up my exercising and keep up with the water I will be ok to have it but I keep second guessing myself.

Good luck with ya'lls choices!