Tuesday, November 7 - Weight Gaining Ideas?

Tumbling Weight,

Here is a list of my morning and evening weigh-ins for the last two and half weeks.
As you can see… my weight has not been stable. A drop of this nature is wonderful if you are trying to lose weight to get into a bathing suit, however it is not suggested if you are trying to maintain your weight and strength during treatment.

Values

If you cannot see the number values on the chart, let me fill you in. When I began to track my weight on Friday, October 19, 2006, when I weighed in at 182.5 lb or 87.7 kg. Two weeks later on Friday, November, 3, 2006 I weighted in at 171 lb or 76.7 kg.

The Dietician and Motivation
The dietician, with whom we met on Thursday, November 2nd, was not impressed with a loss of almost 12 pounds or 5 kilograms in 2 weeks. Jennifer and I decided that we needed more information so we started to figure out, on the weekend, what I was doing. It was suggested that I needed at least 2000 ml of liquid per day. After collecting the data and forcing liquids we realized that I was drinking more that 2600 ml each, on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. This translated into a much more stable weight situation, so much so the my Monday evening Nov. 5 and and Tuesday, Nov.6 morning weights were identical at 172 lbs. This was a good thing since as the treatment continues it becomes more and more difficult to keep your weight on. Once again, thank you to everyone, who brought over food as well as brain food for us.

I hope that I can keep this up for the remainder of the week and beyond. Regardless, I will continue to track my weight each evening and morning.

Shall keep you posted...