Am I having unrealistic expectations?
you really look great!
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Kim J.
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Ssaassy
I don't know how tall you are. 140 may be too low or it could be just right. Take a deep breath and enjoy where you are- you may or may not get to the "magic" number you have chosen. If you are really emotionally distraught you may want to call Dr. Keller for a "tune-up".
BTW it might SHOCK your body but do a carb day....that will make it go HUH what is this whats going on....I do that every three months....affects of the carb day..freguent visits to the potty but my weight comes off again
I have one question...You set a goal and are determined to get there, BUT what time frame did you give yourself?? I have my goal, but I don't have a time frame so I can't stress out about not reaching it yet....If you didn't set a time frame then you have no reason to be dissapointed in yourself. If you are doing everything the way it is supposed to be done, then eventually it will get there. How do I know?? Take a look at all these girls who have lost so much....They are all losing consistantly, whether they hit a stall, or a body adjustment, it is what it is and what I see is that they are all losing weight....That is my real goal!!
Congratulations on losing the 81 lbs! Have you ever lost 81lbs in this short of time and kept it off?? I just think everyone on here is amazing!! They are all my hero's! You hang in there and quit kicking your own butt over this. You are looking HOT and I am jealous!!!
Sherry
Sherri i never did set a time frame for my weight to come off, I have thought about it since I posted my question, and for me to lose all this weight in 7 months is a miracle that I never would have been able to do on my own. This last 15 lbs is just being stubborn but I know that it will come off in it's own time. I just need to have more patience. Rosielocks
on 3/25/09 12:17 pm
Anybody else go through this? Well, me, about a zillion times.
Goals are good, up to a point. If it is driving you crazy, it's gotten past that point where it's a good thing. Something else you write concerns me as well...."My goal wt probably won't satisfy me either because in the back of my mind, 130 pounds sounds better..." That is a terribly dangerous mindset to get into.
WLS can become a form of bulemia or anorexia if those thought are allowed to take over, because the surgery enables us to successfully (if you can call it that) starve ourselves or purge.
So, back to me, I've been through it, about a zillion times. Got down to 102 at one point (I'm 5'5") and have been as high as 272 that I know of. And everywhere in between. More than once. So, I do know a little bit about obsessing with numbers.
And I also know about never being quite low enough-so one of the things I did this time to insure my success at maintaining and my health was to pick a size that I felt I could maintain without purging or starving. I also went to the store and picked out a pair of pants in that size (while I was still much larger) and asked myself "would I be satisfied to be that size? Would I tell a friend, honestly they looked fine in that size?" For me, it's a 12-not a 12w, I wanted to shop in the misses section, that was important to me.
Now, and this still sends shivers up my spine, when I was flipping through the racks at the GW the other day, my eye caught a nice pair of 10's, and I did hold them up, and I did think...."maybe......" Then I remembered where that path leads, and I put them back.
I don't know how tall you are or how you are built, and truly, it doesn't matter what I think. But as you think about it, and what will make you truly happy, please be sure to include the phrase "I'll be at such and such a size-one that I can maintain healthfully and for the rest of my life"....because THAT is where true satisfaction lies.