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Originally Posted by Anya/Georgia
When I say it took me two years to lose 50 pounds, I am not exaggerating for effect!
That comes out to 2.083 pounds per month!
That was sticking to 1500 calories and no butter, no cookies/cakes/pies, etc. That was some weeks gaining a couple of pounds regardless of how well I did.
Today, after having gained 15 pounds of it back, it seems like a distant memory.
I have been off sweets/butter/bread again for maybe 3 weeks now. I have lost 1.5 pounds. I am walking up 6 flights of stairs twice a day.
I just keep repeating my mantra: You did it before, you will do it again, you have control.
It does make me very sad that I gave up control and have to lose the same fucking 15 pounds I already shed previously but I just can't think like that.
It is also why I try to give myself kudos fir eating healthfully and nit fixating so much on the pounds.
I have always had a screwed up body image! When I was 16 and weighed 110, I was convinced I was fat. All my friends did. We even found a "weight loss" MD that gave us diet pills. I got down to 105 (I am a hair under 5'4 but like to say I am 5'4). I was thrilled until I keeled over and fainted one day in my kitchen.
I know that regardless of what I weigh, I still need to change how I think. I will trudge on and try to focus on healthy instead of thin.
Still very, very hard.
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Looks like you are tracking at exactly the same rate of loss as when you lost the weight previously. Congratulations!
With only 15 lbs to go, 2lbs per month is a pretty aggressive goal and you are hitting that.
Bonus!