Feeling discouraged this morning...

These are my feelings and their subject to change at any time.. So just a warning..he he he..

I have felt like I have been stalled for the last 2 days and this morning I weigh 2 pds more.. Ugghh!!! I feel like I am on a time crunch to get this weight off so I can get a surgery date my mid november.  But when the scale starts playing games it's hard to deal with.  However, my every day pants I wear, seem to feel a tiny bit looser but I need to lose pds at this point, that is what counts..

I am doing everything right: except I have given up my last shake of the day, because by the time I eat dinner at 5:30 PM I feel done and really don't want to have a last shake.  I don't know if that could be doing it or not.  And the other is, I haven't worked out I guess I am being lazy and lack of energy.  However, yesterday the kids and I went walking around the block just for sight seeing but wasn't a true work out.

So what does everyone think?  Putting my protective gear on now..LOL..

Thanks,

Sheila

 

 

OK girlfriend!  You are being WAY too hard on yourself!  Quit weighing every day!  Weigh once a week at the same time of the day every week.  Weight goes up and down everyday because of water.  As long as you are doing everything you can to lose it you are a success!  Just keep eating right and exercising and the weight will come off.  I feel for you having to lose before surgery.  I'm haveing a VERY hard time with it.  I'm fortunate in the fact I haven't been told to. (Yet)  So for now don't beat yourself up you are doing a great job!  

 

You could become militant against carbs and follow a low carb induction plan to put you on track and keep you on track.  I have several plans but it takes hardcore dedication and if you don't have it enough to workout on the other diet you're on, then you may not be dedicated enough to really make it work.

T.

Sheila, I have seen cowboy's plan.  The way you are working it will work for you.  I couldn't do it because I'm a wimp.  I went 1/2 day without eating and got ill.  I have followed it without the 2 day fast. You might look at it and see what you think!  He knows his stuff!

I agree Sheila...don't be so hard on yourself.  I had to loose pre-op and I remember going for a re-check one week and had gained 6 pounds...I was devistated.  I went back 2 weeks later and had dropped 16 pounds...go figure.  I was doing the same thing.  I don't think skipping anything will help.  I feel that the nut knows what they are doing and for most it works.  I think you might be putting an unrealistic time line to your loss expectations.  It will come.....hang in there!!!

Sheila, don't make me drive up there and take that scale away from you.  Put it up, and leave gone for at least a week.

Have you not heard the expression a watched pot never boils?  I believe that is true about weight loss too-it is well documented there is a mind body connection, and on some level I think obsessing about weight loss triggers the body into thinking it's starving=just think, if you WERE starving you' be thinking about food/weight all the time too.  The poor old body is just trying to save you, because it misunderstands your intention.  So, now is the time for blinders, like the put on a horse in a race.  PUT UP THAT SCALE.

Now, exercise is like getting a big old diesel truck started-you don't go from nothing to 70 in a very short time-you have to start out slow and build momentum.  If you haven't been working out-walking around the block IS a true work out, so today walk around 2 blocks and so on.

How many kids and a husband do you have?  Are they dressed/fed almost every day?  I don't think lazy fits into that equation.  I think you may be focused on things besides yourself, but that isn't laziness.

To reach your weight loss goals, you ARE going to have to make some changes, but how is beating yourself up over what you used to do helping?  It doesn't, so acknowledge what worked and keep it, acknowledge what didn't work, say, hmmmmm, never exercising didn't work very well did it?....then LET IT GO.   Blame is just another way to keep you stuck in a familiar past that feels safe.  Kick the blame to the curb, you an always go back to beating yourself up if being nice doesn't work.

Once you realize the real power to make this changes is in YOU, you will be able to figure out what choices in food/movement work best for your body.  For me, if I wanted to drop a lot of weight really fast, I'd find a pool (YMCA or something) and do a water workout at least 3 times a week.  It's the easiest on the body and joints way to burn a lot of calories when you are still heavy.

Let's quit looking at this as a deadline-I MUST be healthy by XXXX and start looking at it as a sustainable way of life.

These are just my thoughts and I hope some of them might help.  I'm not a big fan of white carbs, but you aren't eating those anyway with your quick start thing.  

 Oh, are you drinking your water?  That will help flush out the toxins that may be slowing you down.

Finally, look outside-our bodies are being told by mother nature it's time to lay on a few pounds.  That's pretty easily over ridden-I lost the bulk of my weight last winter. 

 

Girl step away from the scale and this is coming from someone who weighs herself every morning.  My weight goes up and down on a regular basis, the majority of the time it is from water retention.  The only benifit I have got from weighing every day is that it has helped me kind of figure out my bodies weightloss pattern. I do not freak if I stay the same or go up a few pounds, I just go back and look at my food journal and most the time I find the culprit is my sodium intake is up or my water intake has been down for a couple of days. It helps me make adjustments.  You are doing great, do not get discouraged.

Sherri

Sheila,
I know how hard this is to do....The closer I get to losing this weight the more it goes up and down....I am ludky that I have along time to finish this off.  Each of us lose differently. I go up and down like a yo yo and can't seem to change that....As Ruth would say...there are not stalls...only body adjustments! lol  I would up the protein amount and see what happens.
I am one of those who can't do the straight Atkins as it affect my kidneys. There are many who can not go that drastic. Being a diabetic, I can't go into Ketosis like that.  For many that is to drastic.For others it works just fine....This is me, personally. I am getting about 65 gms of protein a day. Sometimes even more....I too am a scale watcher.....I know it is hard to stay away when you need to lose this so bad.....Let Deb just come get it!! That would be about the only way I would stay off mine, I know that!! I just know that on the days it's up...I have to work harder at it....but when it is down...I also need to work hard and not relax because of it....It is all out war now....BUT do not abuse your body.....Read it and listen to it!!
I am following the newer version of Atkins using complex carbs but I also add a low about of reg. carbs and am doing well with that.
Hang in there....in a couple days, you will see it is moving again!
Sher

You know the other day when I went in to see Dr G about these stomach issues I have been having Jenni weighed me and I was down 23 pounds since July when they had weighed me last.  When we get so wrapped up in weighing several times a week we dont see the steady progression downwards.  So stop looking at that scale everyday girl!!!!

Sheila - please don't weigh everyday, nothing good will come out of it, other than frustration when the weight fluctuates. Weigh no more than once per week.

Also, on that last shake - you sound just like I did. But, it's there for a reason.....don't do what I did and skip the shakes; all the supplements and meals you are allowed per day, make up the number of protein and calories you need for weight loss and for hunger management. So, drink that last shake - but I know what you mean!!!