WTF?

The scale went in the wrong direction, and I don't understand why.  I gained a pound since Saturday, when I should have lost another pound I would think!  I've been doing everything right, and recording every single morsel of food that goes in my mouth and working out daily.  I don't understand and it is very frustrating!  I wish I knew if I was eating too much, or not eating enough.  Every day I have been under my calorie goal for the day in net calories, so you would think I am losing weight.  Right?  Wrong!  So WTF is going on??  Maybe MFP is overestimating my calories, or under estimating the calories in the foods I am eating for the day.  So I will try and aim for 300 or so cal. under for each day and see if that works.  If it doesn't then maybe I'm not eating enough and my metabolism is slowing down and holding onto weight.  This is so frustrating after all the hard work I am putting in.

Yesterday I got up at 5, my mom picked me up at 5:30am and we went for a 12 mile bike ride on the Oatka Trail.  It was so pretty!  I really wish I had my camera for it.  I will definitely have to go back and walk it maybe so that I can take pictures.  It was a beautiful country road with gorgeous houses and gardens.  For the first half of the ride both of my tires were half flat (I only knew the front one was flat-ish) and my seat was too low.  It was way more difficult than it should have been!  Finally I passed my mom at one point and she noticed how low the back tire was as well.  No wonder it felt like I was riding through mud!  I bet that burned me some extra calories!  Lol  After that we stopped and we used my moms mini pump to put air in the back tire.  Something was wrong with the valve on the front tire and we couldn't get it off, so I had to deal with that being flat.  But we also raised the seat up, and that made a huge difference!  I couldn't believe how much easier the ride was after that stop!

Today I got up early to go to the gym.  I got up at 5:15, but didn't get there until 6.  I had wanted to go there instead of out running because I wanted to tan.  But since I wasted so much time that never happened and I only got to do the elliptical for 25 minutes and then do some arm free weights.  That was all I had time for before running home to shower to be ready for the kids to get here.  Oh well, maybe tomorrow.  But I would really like to go for a run, so I'm not sure.  We will see.

Hopefully I will try and not weigh myself for another week, and I wll see the numbers going down.  This weekend will be hard though because we are going camping, and camping means loads and loads of junk food.  Also my grandma's birthday party on Saturday, and that will be lots of junk food too.  Hopefully I can keep it together.  I am planning on bringing my bike and going for some rides and runs.  It will be hard, but I am least hoping not to gain anything.