I usually try to weigh myself once a week, or once every two weeks, just to keep myself on track and not have any surprises when I go to see my Emory nutritionist Julie.  My weight goes up two pounds, then down two pounds, then up three pounds, then down three pounds, then up five pounds, then down four pounds, and on and on and on………what is that?

I keep telling myself that my weight is just a number and is not important, and that as soon as I get over it, the weight will just fall off.   (hear those crickets?) 

Here’s what I don’t understand.  If I’m following Julie’s guidelines and eating within my range, and I’m working out and burning calories, how can the pound (or two or five) go down, then up, then down, then up?  How am I gaining and losing the same pounds week after week after week?  Seriously, I am not going over (too badly) my daily caloric intake; I’m averaging what I’m supposed to, I’m working out a least five days a week, sometimes twice in one day, yet 3500 calories (what it takes to gain a pound) is creeping up on Wednesday, but gone by the next Thursday, and I’m not doing anything different?  Again, I ask, what is that?  I know I can’t be the only one going through this kind of phenomena.  I wouldn’t call this a plateau, because I gain then I lose, then I gain then I lose (you know the drill by now).

Anybody?  Bueller?