R1P3D15 - A gain? What the?!

LIW 2/26/08 161.7
Day 1 - 161.7 At LIW
Day 2 - 163.8 2.1 OVER
Day 3 - 162.7 1 OVER
Day 4 - 165.1 3.4 OVER (Steak day)
Day 5 - 163.6 1.9 OVER (Started daily workouts)
Day 6 - 165.7 4 OVER (felt like water retention, ate light)
Day 7 - 166.4 4.7 OVER (Egg day)
Day 8 - 164.7 3 OVER (Partial Egg day)
Day 9 - 164.5 2.8 OVER
Day 10 - 165.6 3.9 OVER
Day 11 - 167.0 5.3 OVER
Day 12 - 166.3 4.6 OVER
Day 13 - 167.5 5.8 OVER (Egg day)
Day 14 - 166.4 4.7 OVER (Egg day)
Day 15 - 166.9 5.2 OVER

Yesterday was mostly an egg day, except for lunch I had a salad from chipotle because my boss was treating & I got black beans on it and then I looked up the carbs in black beans. 20g per cup! Who knew! There was about 1/4-1/2 c of beans on my salad. Maybe that caused a .5 gain. Doesn't seem like it would, but you never know. I also only got about 4 hours of sleep last night. Could that be the culprit?

For the rest of the day I ate deviled eggs and pork rinds. I guess I could be retaining water from the pork rinds too... who knows. Anyway, I made that shrimp egg foo yung with a heavy cream reduction gravy for dinner last night. OMG! it was soooo good! I used heavy cream in place of the cornstarch to thicken the gravy.

I know I sound really calm about my steady gain on this P3. Working out really keeps my head clear & I'm really comfortable at this weight. I don't feel heavy anymore & I can wear all my "skinny" clothes. As far as the gains go, I'm really not "cheating". I don't think I've had enough starches or sugars to cause these gains. I had a snack size piece of chocolate on day 6 and a macadamia nut cookie around day 4, but I've been pretty steady with my eating this week and I'm still on this roller coaster. Up, down, up, down.... My chart looks like a bouncy ball going up hill! At this point, I'm really looking forward to my next P2. I know I can lose these few pounds then. I just want to stay below 170 over the next 5 weeks. I have a few events to attend and then I'll be starting my next round on Apr 21st.

Nakia still has some antibiotics to take and then I hope he'll start. Now he's thinking that he just wants to take the weight off with excercise. I'm trying to convince him that he'll have better success on hcg. I told him to just do cardio while taking the shots and he should be fine. He can't lift weights yet anyway because of the hernia surgery he just had. He's so eager to get back to normal though. I'll keep y'all posted.

In response to yesterday's comments:

Mary - The macadamia nuts are great girl! Thanks so much for that suggestion.

Ed & Jenn - This P3 is kicking our butts isn't it?! I WILL get it under control though. I seem to be building muscle steadily because I'm lifting weights with my workouts. I workout at least 1 hour a day in the morning. Sometimes I do another workout in the evening of just cardio for about a half hour.