New perspective on the stall

Hi everyone, I have been bemoaning my long stall--Nancy you can relate I know! Anyways, being bored at work (I have only one week left before I start a new job), I was poking around fitday.com. The first time I went on there was August 6th I believe. Well I ran a report on my weight loss since then. I showed that I was losing an average of 2.64 lbs a week. Well that was a good pick me up. Because I sure feels like nothing has been moving for so long. It would be nice to get to 175 by Christmas, which I thought was unrealistic before. I am feeling a little more positive about it now. Oh the boredom at work thing, my friend said they had a saying in the military about decreased productivity of people who were moving to a new post: FIGMO (*uckit I got my orders) . I guess it translates well into civilian life as well. Lori

Hi Lori! I am so glad you are feeling better about things! yeah I can realate,all I did is B**ch about it for the entire time!LOL!!!! Lori 2.64 a week is EXCELLENT!!! That honeymoon period is a REAL SPOILER! now that we dropped so much weight and our overall caloric intakes are much lower the slower weight loss is harder to cope with at times. At my visit with my nut on friday she explained the slowing up process in detail and makes soooo much sense ,I didn't even think about this. I apologize if you already figured it out,but if your like me and clueless it can help make sense! I am rounding the numbers off... Before surgery they figured my calorie intake to be around 3,500 to 4,000 (OMG how pathetic!) rounding the numbers off...dropping from that number to the 300 to 500 (honeymood period) for a few months no wonder the weight flew off!lol...now my caloric value should be (to maintain) around 1,700 to 1,800 and I am now eating 700 to 1,000 calories a day now,that is so much drastically lower so that explains why the weight slows up as you loose so much weight and will get harder and harder as I go along. She said that is why people at the end that only need to loose 10-20 pounds struggle so hard to get it off. Honestly, I don't know about you but I really am happy with everything overall and I feel so blessed that I am where I am now,I have just decided to take it one day at a time for here on in and just let the weight come off as it will and stop my obsessing and worrying about it.It is like Psychological warefare on myself and I finally said to myself enough is enough! I can realate to the bordom today too.....I finished up my last work project Saturday (actually 4 before my deadline) and I am taking a much needed break for a week or two, now I am bored....we did all of our fall cleaning last week when DH was off ,so nothing major to do here now. I guess there really is no happy medium!LOL ((hugs)) Nanc

Good job nancy! I am a slow loser and have to look at things the same way as you!! I had surgery 6/20/6 and am down 50lbs as of today so I am about the same rate of loss as you! I am hoping to be 180-170 at xmas time as well!! Good luck to you!