I am at a loss and am hoping someone here can give me some good advise or maybe just some sympathy 
I'm trying to not feel like a failure....this is my situation. I'll be 37 in April, I'm a 5'3" female. I had gastric bypass surgery in July 2004. I went from 492 to 230 at my lowest. Over the last 2 years my weight crept back up to 280. I started back into therapy and took a little off. I decided to enter a Biggest Looser competition at work and my competitive nature kicked in. I started on a 1500 calorie a day diet and started working out 3 times a week. I do a mile on the eliptical, 10 minutes on the treadmill and 5 minutes of weights. I'm currently looking for a personal trainer because I know I need to do more strength training, but I don't know what I'm doing and don't want to hurt myself. All that is background information to the fact that last week at weigh in I was at 256 from a starting weight of 272. Not too shabby. Today I'm at 259. I have no idea what's going on and it's extremely discouraging. I know weight fluctuates, but it's not the time of the month to be retaining water. I don't feel like I'm doing enough strength training for it to be muscle gain. Shesh.....I need to keep sight of what I've accomplished but it's so hard when you have no idea if you need to modify things to keep going. Any ideas?
I'm trying to not feel like a failure....this is my situation. I'll be 37 in April, I'm a 5'3" female. I had gastric bypass surgery in July 2004. I went from 492 to 230 at my lowest. Over the last 2 years my weight crept back up to 280. I started back into therapy and took a little off. I decided to enter a Biggest Looser competition at work and my competitive nature kicked in. I started on a 1500 calorie a day diet and started working out 3 times a week. I do a mile on the eliptical, 10 minutes on the treadmill and 5 minutes of weights. I'm currently looking for a personal trainer because I know I need to do more strength training, but I don't know what I'm doing and don't want to hurt myself. All that is background information to the fact that last week at weigh in I was at 256 from a starting weight of 272. Not too shabby. Today I'm at 259. I have no idea what's going on and it's extremely discouraging. I know weight fluctuates, but it's not the time of the month to be retaining water. I don't feel like I'm doing enough strength training for it to be muscle gain. Shesh.....I need to keep sight of what I've accomplished but it's so hard when you have no idea if you need to modify things to keep going. Any ideas?
