Healthy Weight Loss

[JustJo]

Originally Posted by Medusa

Weigh-in is tomorrow. Looks like I'll be breaking my plateau and weighing in at 293!

Just to give a little perspective, my weight loss has been SLOW. As in molasses rolling down a hill of sand in winter SLOW.

I started at 335 in April. It is now September which means it has taken 5 months to lose a little over 40 pounds. I think I'm right on target as far as how permanent weight loss is supposed to go. That is an average of about 2 pounds a week which is exactly what the "textbooks" say is supposed to happen for the pounds to stay gone forever.

It's hard sometimes to stay focused when the numbers move so slowly but looking back on the time that has lapsed since April, I acknowledge that I very readily could have been doing NOTHING as opposed to doing SOMETHING and my weight would have still been 335 today.
It has helped me to keep that in mind when I feel discouraged.

ONE. DAY. AT. A. TIME.
ONE. HOUR. AT. A. TIME.
ONE. MEAL. AT. A. TIME.
ONE. BITE. AT. A. TIME.

Originally Posted by Anya/Georgia

It is difficult to be one of the slow losers! Particularly when we read of our fellow planeteers (word?) losing so quickly.

I weigh each day to help keep myself honest, still losing ounces and not pounds. I try very hard to keep the healthy eating aspect in the forefront, as in: " No, you didn't lose again but you totally stuck with your eating plan, yeah! Good girl!"

No, it doesn't always work but I plod along anyway. I wish I was like you faster losers but I am not. It is the way it is.

Medusa, you have been doing so great! Those pounds are gone, gone, gone! We must focus on our successes, not what we perceive as our failures to keep us on our positive path.

Hugs,

Personally, I congratulate you both for sticking with it. It can be extra hard when the progress is slow, but the important thing is the positive changes you're making to improve your health...regardless of the numbers on the scale.

In my line of work we talk a lot about being "directionally correct." We don't always get where we're going, in the way we expected, on the schedule we wanted. The critical part is moving in the right direction...making progress...pursuing the goal and moving towards it.

We're all directionally correct...no matter the speed...and I think we all rock!