LW Goddesses in training: are you LOGGING food and MEASURING yourself???

As a LW Goddess in training, I've experienced two stalls: frustrating, depressing and fear-inducing stalls.  Of course only I have ever thought these things...

What do you MEAN I haven't lost weight in 3 (or 4 or 6) weeks?  How can that BE?  Is this IT?  Is this ALL?  What am I doing wrong?  OMG!  It was that that I shouldn't have eaten (insert name of forbidden fruit here).  I don't DESERVE to be thin; I'm a failure.  I'm the exception to this weight loss surgery thing.  Blah, Blah, blah.

I lost a single lb in July. One measly friggin lb. OK, I admit it. Mea culpa.  I've been stressed to the max and eating above MY ceiling carb count.  I was saying I'd fallen off the sleevie wagon (of course it can't be slipping off the band wagon folks, I don't have a band), I was a bad patient, blah, blah, blah.  Amy, where were you when I needed your wonderful positive self talk lessons? My self talk was HORRENDOUS.  So bad, in fact, that if someone other than me was saying my self talk, murder would have been an option.   

But then I looked at my food diary.  Yes, my carb count was above my threshold, but not by huge amounts.  (I'm not making excuses, only explaining)  Enough to require modification, but certainly not enough to beat myself up.  But I would not have been able to know that, or evaluate WHERE I could cut, if I hadn't been logging my food. 

MY Goddess in training lesson: LOG YOUR FOOD, not just to "be honest," but as reference! 

Also, although the scale wasn't moving, I was STILL ROCKIN MY TOOL!  My sleevie was helping me still... in inches lost.  In four weeks, I lost 3 inches on my waist, 3 inches on my bewbies, 2 inches on each thigh, an inch on each upper arm, and 2.5 inches on my hips.  Put that on your scale and stomp on it Babee! 

My Second Goddesses in training lesson: Measure yourself with a tape, not just to see "how you're doing," but to keep you from beating yourself up, and to help you during a stall! 

So before you hit that stall, break out the food log and the tape measure NOW so you can have other ways to measure potential success.

tracey

Woo Hoo for those inches Tracey!!!  Good for you for thinking through the things that might be giving you some problems and making adjustments.
Linda

I totally agree! Without my food log and measuring 2x a month...I would have stressed out ALOT during a stall. It is amazing how the body can lose so many inches but stay the same weight!

I haven't gotten to Curves this month with my knee issues but I always get measured monthly there. Maybe I'll sneek in this afternoon to get weighted and measured and will feel better.  My clothes are looser.

I too, lost 1 lb in July.  Yuck.  but I guess it is better than a poke in the eye, as my chrio says.  Keeping my food log does at least tell me I am doing what I need to, loss or no.  So, you have wisdom beyond your LW Goddess in training protrays.

Great Post Tracey!!!!   We need you on here....don't be MIA!!!!!

                                         


Thanks Tracey.

Tracey......you help me feel so less ALONE!!!  In some ways I am thrilled in how I am doing and in other ways not....it takes almost an act of God for the scale to move some weeks yet people keep tellling me that I look smaller.  We have similar stats and it just makes me feel better.  For some, the weight falls off and for others it does not.  I find it it a little reassuring though as no wonder I was fat!

Good luck to you!!!!

Jennifer

My friend Tom and I went to lunch this week: the local buffet bar. 

Over my quarter cup of cottage cheese, I asked him-- my best male friend of 23 years, "Please will you tell me honestly what the male population sees when they look at me? I still see the fat chick."
"You're 50, right?" Stupidly, I corrected him that I was 52. 
"OK then, for 52, you're hot."
 
I almost snorted cottage cheese out my nose.
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Evidently, Jennifer, if you, like me, do not see the improvement that shedding 60+ lbs has done for you, you also may have a cottage cheese snorting experience in your future .

I do have one suggestion...

Make sure on that day to select only small curd cottage cheese from the salad bar.  
tracey

LOVE it Tracey!!

I do actually see the changes in me and am thrilled to be straddling the fence between the overweight and thin world......I guess I just doubt myself so much on this journey as I have struggled with weight for SOOOOOO long.   Sometimes I need the reminder that the # doesnt matter...it is what I can DO with this healthier body that is important.  I have told myself this from the beginning but you just gave me the reminder I needed!

Blessings to you!!!!

~~Jennifer

p.s. I HATE cottage cheese!      Although I made a great egg bake recipe from bariatric eating that has it in it and I LOVE this recipe!!!!
p.s.s.   hang in there...you have had a lot of stressors!  prayers for your friends......

Great job on the inches. I would rather lose inches than pounds, but I prefer both. Stalls suck, but I've been through three. I can tell when a stall is breaking because I get HUNGRY and then drop a few pounds quickly. Keep up the good work. You know you are awesome!!!