Slowing down

Good Morning All!!

Well...here I sit 9 months out and down 129 pounds.  I have 11 left to get to my goal weight.  The loss is really slowing down now and it's frustrating me.  A huge part of it is what I'm eating.  I find myself thinking "well...I only have 10 pounds to go, I can have this handful of chips" or "I miss having a sandwich, I'm going to splurge and have bread".  I'm rationalizing with carbs because I'm so close to my goal.  I know this is a huge contributor to my loss slowing down, but I just can't seem to get past this way of thinking.  I guess I should be looking at it that I'm still losing (but very slow) rather than stalling or gaining...but I don't.  Another thing that is making this eating "ok" is that my original weight goal before I had the surgery was 150, I then changed it to 140.  I'be been fluctuating between 149 and 151...so somewhere in the back of my mind maybe I'm thinking I'm close enough to my goal weight???  I don't know...ugh...it's frustrating!  I know I can do this, I just need to let the DS do it's magic, but sometimes those old habits and thoughts surface and they are hard to fight off.

Remember the bounceback!  It is coming!  To stay at goal you probably need to be 10% under goal.  It's all about what's important to you!

I am at a year.I stopped at about 9 months and sat at the same weight for 3 months...  it was very hard.  I have started losing agian though. 13 lbs in 6 weeks.  So dont give up hope and keep with the program.  It should start coming off again.

Good luck

It can be a big mind game. I'm 24 pounds from goal and have the same issues of letting stuff sneak in that I shouldn't.
I'm trying to go back to some of the menu's from when I was earlier out. Good luck. 

Pete

Thanks for all the comments!