Summertime Blues

Hey everybody, how's your Summer going?  Mine has been non-stop busy and it just seems the faster I go, the behinder I get.   I don't know if it's just me but the heat makes me feel "blah" and "bloated"...anybody else have this going on?

Let me ask you a question about your weight loss efforts.  If you went back three months ago and thought about where you wanted to be today as far as progress goes, are you where you wanted to be?  I'm where I expected to be...no loss, no gain, still maintaining but I have to add that it's starting to get to be a struggle with this menopause bidness getting on my last nerves!  But enough about me, how are you doing?

Mary

Hi Mary, good to see you. I'm just happy to see the scale numbers going down - I don't have a set progress that I hope to meet. It's going to be long awhile before I'm in your shoes and just maintaining - and you know as hard as it is to lose weight, I think maintaining is even harder unless you have made true changes in your lifestyle. I think you're doing a great job because you recognize what you have to do to keep it off.

Skylar

Hey Skylar, good to see you, too.  So glad to hear that your scale is continuing to move in the right direction, how exciting is that? 

Yep, maintenance is as hard as the losing process but this menopause issue certainly has thrown me a curve ball.  I'm working on dealing with it but the bloating kinda sucks!  At least I'm doing better than some of my friends who are getting middle aged spread, now that's some scary stuff cuz it's like there is no control over it...it has a mind of it's own!

Congratulations on taking it slow and easy and being patient, that's something I never had when I was losing weight, but I did manage to learn an eating lifestyle that I wouldn't be maintaining without.

Mary

Glad to see ya still hanging in there.  You've got this down.  Sometimes I wonder who will be the ones who ban the wagon, but you seem to keep a hold of those reins.  Good for you!

As for me, I am exactly where I thought I would be.  Lol, I haven't lost anything, and on top of my ten pound yo yo.  This is usually the time when I lose my ten pounds once again.  

It's my fault, I have NOT been wanting to diet lately.  It's hot out, it's summer time, and I've been under some really bad stress this past six months, extreme actually.  It has taken a toll on my health and doctor bills to boot it.  But now things seem to be settling down a LITTLE, so hopefully I can figure something out.  

I really wonder why I have such a hard time balancing a lot of stress, and physical pain at the same time.  I really suck at it!!  I can't seem to get a hold of it.

Yanno Holl, for me it was about finding out what was wrong with me physically in the first place.  I spent so many years crying over why I couldn't lose the weight that once I found out why and how to get it off, food became something totally different to me.  Once I knew how certain foods affect the body, those foods just became so not worth it to me.  Now that you are having all of these physical issues, my hope for you is that you will look at food as how it affects you physically, not how it soothes the stress cuz we both know that's only temporary.  You know are smart lady, you know how to diet, and you've done this before, but for some reason you keep sabotaging all of your hard work.  Any detective will tell you this has to be an emotional issue, no?   Maybe that's what you need to research next, how to deal with your emotions without self medicating with food.  Just sumpn' to think about.

You'll get if figured out,

Mary