Since I am the queen of yo-yo dieting I am trying to remember the things that worked for me in the past to try and make this weight loss 'program' work.
Most important...set goals. Not I want to lose 100 pounds by my high school reunion. That can be your ultimate goal, but you have to take baby steps. For me it's the Decade Rule for setting goals. My friend Joann and I used it quite successfully. It allowed us to share our weight loss information without, God forbid, divulging our actual tonnage. So if I weighed 172 and lost 3 pounds (like that would ever happen in a week but we're pretending here) that was extra good because you were now in the 160's instead of the 170's, in another 'decade' so to speak. Going into another lower decade is huge (bad choice of words) ... but to set 10 pounds as a goal is far too much so I go 5 pounds at a time in hopes that I will spend more time congratulating myself than being in disbelief that yet another week has passed and I have not met my goal.
Seriously, realize that this is basically the way you need to eat forever. If you go back to your old way of eating you will be fat. You can't graze, eat candy bars, mow on whatever and expect that it's not going to end up putting the pounds back on. Even if the scale isn't showing it 'this week' it will eventually catch up, first 2 pounds, then 4, and so on and so on until soon you're ripping thru your closet hoping you didn't get rid of every pair of fat pants cuz you can't hardly breath in the ones your in.
Only weigh yourself once a week. That's it. No more...no less. If you weigh yourself more than that you aren't getting a true reading because weight fluctuates daily. And if you're like me you will use the information on the scale to either go, "Yes! I lost 2 pounds! I can have cheesecake!" or the other scenario "WTF? Are you kidding me? That's crap I might as well eat cheesecake since this isn't working". If you weigh yourself less than that you can pretend that the twinkies don't count because last time you weighed yourself you were the same ... except last time was 2 dress sizes ago.
When I started this diet my first goal was to lose 21 pounds which is when I started this blog. That was a big number to shoot for but it was the lowest weight I was at since I moved to Maine four years ago. So now that I have reached that my next goal is a very important 'decade' goal and it's only 5 more pounds away. Easy right?
Well today is Monday, my weigh day. I lost half a pound. That's it. I am minus 22.5. That equals a eight loss of 1.5 pounds in how many weeks? I've had the gain week, for no reason I know of, the back down week that should have been back down and then some, then the stay the same weeks. Am I ever going to lose a whole number? I did the math ... at the rate of one half stinking pound per week, I will achieve my goal in 14 months or on October 31, 2011. Did you get that? Two Thousand Eleven. It's not even October 2010, we're talking a little over 30 pounds. People loose over a hundred in a year!
Well I guess I will quit my bitching, be happy I didn't gain weight and go eat my zucchini.
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