I know I shouldn't be upset..but it is so irritating!

Okay, now I am annoyed. Last week when I weighed in I was five pounds from my goal...FIVE. Today....8 pounds from my goal. It irritates the **** out of me. I know...first of all I should be so happy with how far I have come, second- your weight changes all of the time and third...it is EIGHT Fricken pounds...get over it....I just have in my head to get to my goal and when I set my mind to something darn it, I want to achieve it....Oh well....I am just going to have to be very careful this week...plus I just had surgery four weeks ago...I need to recover before I stress over this....ah..Now I am just blabbing trying to talk myself down..... Thanks for "listening" Maghan

Maghan, at our support group our leader (the surgeon's bariatric coordinator) often talks about her own panic-point number. She is five years out and like most everybody has fluctuated a bit but has a certain number that panics her and when she reaches it she begins getting very serious about her eating, water and exercise again until she gets back where she wants to be. We probably all have a number like that even if we don't give it a label. For me it is 135 and I have been really stressing about how wildly my weight is fluctuating lately. Keep up your efforts to achieving your goal, you will make it! You have worked so hard to get where you are now and you aren't going to stop just because the scale isn't cooperating. And hopefully it is all just a side-effect of your surgery. Molly

I know Meghan I am 5 stubburn pounds from goal.....arrgghhh!!! Erin