The scale stole my thanksgiving!

Welp looks like they all said it already lol. STEP AWAY FROM THE SCALE! *grin*. Girl you are going to send your self to the loony bin if you keep stressing over that silly scale. Just keep doing what you are supposed to! Enjoy the fact that your clothes are getting smaller, you are fitting in places that you didn't fit so well in before and you are over all becoming squishy in a whole new way *wink*. You are shrinking I promise!!! It just takes time to get the body to catch up is all. You try and be your poor ole' skin and bounce back from what we have put it through. Find something else to mark your progress for a while. Stop worrying about the number that guess what NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU WI**** WONT MOVE TILL IT WANTS TO! *hugs*. Seriously though. If you are doing what you are supposed to do, then it will move. But setting goals for yourself like you have will only bring you down. Be surprised when you get to a weight not disappointed that you didn't get there in some made up time frame ok!! *hugs* always here for you!! Felicia =)

Thanks for the wake up call. I know that we only have a year to get this weight off and be 10 pounds under goal to make it. Every week counts. Realistically, In the words of Joyce Meyer, it is what it is. I so appreciate your response and all the others as well.

WOW what a depressing way to look at it : "I know that we only have a year to get this weight off and be 10 pounds under goal to make it." Like at 12 months and a day we will never lose anything again... I guess I don't see it that way. I have a year to have it come off easier then it will after that year is up. Not to mention we are not very far into that first year so with what 10 months left to go things are actually looking pretty good not pretty doomed. *hugs* Cheer up. You said it yourself "It is what it is" so stressing gets you no where. Hey speaking of that... that would mean that its all in the way we look at it.. Is the glass half full or half empty? A week or 2 from now you will look back at this and giggle cuz by then your weight will be falling off. *big hugs and positive squeezes* Felicia =)

ok, first of all I totally understand what you are going through. In 2000, my husband left me and I got a divorce. I proceeded to loose around 100 pounds. I worked out all the time and obsessed about the scale. I did get down to 150 (lowest weight) and for 5"3", it was OK, but not quite enough. In fact my first boyfriend broke up with me after 2 years of dating, because I wasn't thin enough..get that one!!! I then proceeded to sink into a 3 month depression, followed by meeting the best man I have ever known. To make a long story short, 3 years laterand married I had gained about 137 pounds. Thus, I am now post-op, had surgery on October 3. This is the readers digest version, my point is this---I totally obssessed about my weight and weighing myself and thought about being fat until again, I was really fat. If I had just chilled, I probably could have lived with my size 12, 150 pounds, and lost the boyfriend sooner!!! LOL..my point now..My doctor told me at my one week check up, "go live your life.." the best advice I had ever got...I made a rule to only weigh every 18 to 20 days, not worry about it and just try to be healthy. I loosely follow a diet, I just emphasize protein, but I have not deprived myself. But I only eat 3 meals (sometimes 2) a day. I have eaten 1/2 hamburger, a lil pizza toppings, etc. I am steadily loosing. I do take my vitamins, and try to drink as much as I can. I am easing into working out again, not as much as I would like, but i know I will get there. Now, I am NOT saying that there is not a medical reason that your weight loss has been slow, that is a real possibility. But, I just want to share with you, let the tool work itself, dont worry , take your vitamins, you know you cannot overeat, so let it go and live your life. Let that body take care of itself. I know you want to reach goals, but we never know what our body is going to do. And from what I understand the bulk of the weight is lost in the first 12 months, but you can easily continue to loose for another 6 months and then continue after that, you just have to make adjustments, like make sure your portions remain low and activity is high. So, hang in there, you can do this, and you cant quit!! THat is the irony of it all..so relax, and see what happens, you will be surprised. Hide your scale for a month..everyone is different and everyone looses differently..you will be fine and you will loose!! So go live your life lady and enjoy..we are in the great season..remember the reason for the season..give it to God and LIVE LIVE LIVE!!! hugs! Kimberlee