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Weight Loss Forum / WeightWatchers / July 2005Week 21 WI, Tayra
I think I've figured out how it works. Weeks that I'm optimistic about loss, I end up gaining. Weeks where I worry I might not have a loss.. that's when I lose. I was all set this week to be so irritated because I'd have little or no loss after last week's debacle, generally being pessimistic and grumbly all day. This is more because I slept badly and had too many things to get done today on top of the ongoing cramps and bleeding than because of any worry about my weight, but I was Miss Pessimism anyway. So, according to form, the scale showed a 3.2lb loss this week. Half a pound shy of my largest losses, so not too bad. I was hoping for a *bit* more: I figured, if I had two good weeks in a row, it'd be over 4lbs total for the two, but I'll take what I can get. This puts me at an average 6lbs/month. Which, honestly, is slower than I'd like, but then I'd *like* to wake up at my goal of 170 tomorrow morning. At this rate, I'll get to 170 in three more years. It's a long time, and of course I wish it wouldn't take so long, but I can live with it, especially if there's hope it *might* not take that long. Sometimes it'd be nice to have a 6lb+ loss, tho. Two women in my meeting tonight had large losses like that: 7.4lbs one of them, 8.2lbs another. In one week. It'd just add that extra kick of encouragement, yknow? Anyway, I'm happy with it because I've *finally* crossed the 30lb mark. 31.4, technically. Only 10lbs more till my 10%. 18.6lbs more till I've lost 50 and my friends are throwing me a giant party with chicken satay and lovely low-point cheesecake. I have wonderful friends :) -Tay Good for you Tay I know how you feel, I have had the big losses but I also have the big gains. 5.2 lbs up last week, all the while staying on program. So it does get discouraging, but thankfully everyone here posts good and bad and the helps me so much. Thank you Tayra for shareing. Lorna >I think I've figured out how it works. Weeks that I'm optimistic about >loss, I end up gaining. Weeks where I worry I might not have a loss.. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > -Tay Tayra, you will beat me. Took me near forever to get rid of the entire 200, but I must admit to a bunch of "vacations" along the way. If you keep this up you will be there before you know what happened.  SignatureLesanne 365/161.5/164 >I think I've figured out how it works. Weeks that I'm optimistic about >loss, I end up gaining. Weeks where I worry I might not have a loss.. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > -Tay 3.2 lbs for one week is fantastic! Getting to goal will not happen overnight, but it will happen if you stick with it. There will be weeks when you have losses of over 3.2 lbs, but there will be many more that are less than that, but the results are all the same....you are losing and that's what you want. Your 21 week total is wonderful and well within the 1-2 lb. weekly loss that WW suggests. Keep up the good work!! Brenda >I think I've figured out how it works. Weeks that I'm optimistic about >loss, I end up gaining. Weeks where I worry I might not have a loss.. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > -Tay I think of all the 140 plus weeks I have been a weight watcher, there have been 4 losses of over 3 pounds, non over 5.4, Lee > 3.2 lbs for one week is fantastic! Getting to goal will not happen > overnight, but it will happen if you stick with it. There will be weeks [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > > > -Tay You are doing really well even if _YOU_ don't necessarily agree week by week. It works as it is intended. Slow but steady although, frankly, 3.2 is NOT slow. It's terrific. Congrats. And you appear to be making it toward that 10% at a regular rate..... >I think I've figured out how it works. Weeks that I'm optimistic about >loss, I end up gaining. Weeks where I worry I might not have a loss.. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > >-Tay Congratulations on the 31 lb loss! I know what you mean about how much our darn brains get involved in this. I never think I will care about what the scale says, and then if II've lost I feel great, and if not I have to readjust my thoughts. What I'm finding works for me, brainwise, is to just remember that if I stay on the plan, and don't fiddle with it (I am doing points), I can send my brain into the other room when it's time to eat, and just do what so many others have found works. I know there will be plateaus, and it's a plan that can go slowly, but I look back on last year at this time and I was the same size then, and not on any plan. Next year at this time I know I'll be smaller. The years go by anyway, right? Lucy > Congratulations on the 31 lb loss! I know what you mean about how much > our darn brains get involved in this. I never think I will care about > what the scale says, and then if II've lost I feel great, and if not I > have to readjust my thoughts. That's a funny thing. When I first joined, I knew (and I still know) that half a pound, really, is nothing. If you eat a large meal you'll gain more than that. Heck, a liter of water weighs 1kg, which is slightly less than half a pound. You drink two liters of water a day, you go up a pound. Half a pound is *meaningless*. But. I get on a scale and I'm half a pound heavier.. it bugs me. Altho really it bugs me more not because it's half a pound than because it means I didn't *lose*. So, rather than being half a pound heavier, I'm like two pounds away from where I should be. The first time it happened I was distraught. The second time it happened I was dismayed. It's happened about four times now, and, while it still bugs me, as long as I don't go up more than a pound, I'm ok, because I retain the knowledge that numbers that small are meaningless. And I remind myself repeatedly of that fact. Still, even with losses on the order of 1 pound, I'm happy. And I feel ridiculous for being so. I mean, yes, it's a loss, and I'm happy it's not a gain, but I haven't had dinner yet either and I could easily have weighed in differently. So.. one pound? It's nothing. But it *stays* off, that's the important part. And it adds up. Weeks individually don't mean a whole lot to me, unless the loss is over 3lbs or I have a gain. But now that I've crossed 30lbs, I actually feel like I'm accomplishing something. It's like the jar everybody's got sitting around for loose pocket change. One or two pennies a week, sure, that's nice. It's not significant, but at least you're putting something in it. But at the end of the year when you change it in and it's $80 or something, *that's* the reward. -Tay 415.4/384/170 surely 6lbs a month is OK?? Just remember large losses aint that good......... they probably wont loose much next week where as you'll keep chugging on by :o) maybe they took their shoes off this week!? 3.2lbs is fab! don't loose sight of that.have a chat with your leader, maybe she could give you some words of wisdom, don't forget she is paid (by you!) to help you loose weight :o) Chin up, that party aint far away!! Jo :o) >I think I've figured out how it works. Weeks that I'm optimistic about >loss, I end up gaining. Weeks where I worry I might not have a loss.. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > -Tay I will tell you the secret is to keep on no matter how long, staying at it keeps away permanent gain, Lee > I think I've figured out how it works. Weeks that I'm optimistic about > loss, I end up gaining. Weeks where I worry I might not have a loss.. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > -Tay >I will tell you the secret is to keep on no matter how long, staying at it >keeps away permanent gain, Lee That's exactly it. You will ultimately prevail unless there is some medical reason that prevents weightloss. If you eat fewer calories you will either maintain or lose some weight. The old equation is one of the laws of nature - calories in should about equal calories out or expended. Now it may not be easy and some weeks invite celebrations but overall, you have to stick with it. >> I think I've figured out how it works. Weeks that I'm optimistic about >> loss, I end up gaining. Weeks where I worry I might not have a loss.. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >> >> -Tay |
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