down .4
My goal this week was to a lose a pound. I did not lose a pound, but I did loose .4 of a pound. I was pleased with that. At this point I am trying to judge how much I can consistently lose each week and had hoped it was 1 pound. Now I am thinking perhaps it is .5 of a pound. Really, when I lose weight YEARS ago, it took me a year to lose 19 pounds, so perhaps .5 a week is more realistic. At the end of the day, the fact it is going down rather than staying the same or going up is what counts.
I signed up for another 6 months of WW today. My coupons finally ended. The dreams I had when I first bought those! Granted my first week was amazing, with a loss of 4.2. But then came the stress and I gained all but one pound back over the following weeks. Having said that, I did manage to lose about 4.5 pounds in that 12 weeks. A small number, but still a number!
Last Monday I had dinner with friend I had not seen since my wedding roughly a year ago. Growing up she had been a model - so quite slim. She was heavy, for her, at my wedding, and I did not recognize her when I saw her outside the restaurant. She has a myriad of health issues now - some I had heard of and some I had not. One of the side effects she has is obesity. Unlike my fat -which has had time to evenly migrate around my body - her fat weight gain (I am guessing 30- 40 lbs this last year) has all settled on her stomach, neck and face. I really feel for her. True, she still weighs less than I do and has about 5″ of height on me, but it is hard to deal with the health issues AND the weight gain. She told me she is trying to stablize at 172 (unheard of in the past when she rarely weighed more than 110). I suggested WW to her. How quickly I forgot that “skinny” people have no idea how to diet. She did not know where to go or what to do. I think WW would be a good start for her.
After seeing someone with so many health issues at the same age as me, I realize how lucky I am and it changes my view point of my pudge. Not that I want to keep my pudge, but it put it into a different perspective.
So, I am content with my .4 weight loss and will continue down the same road I am travelling. Who knows, maybe next week I will actually lose a pound, but if it is .4, I think I should be happy with that.
Cheers, blog buds
Shari, I think you’re really on the right path with realizing that your weight loss speed is likely to be slower than you wanted, but that it will be the right speed for you.
It took me a LONG time to come to terms with the fact that I am just a slow loser.
Have you ever read “Mindless Eating”? There they talk about a lot of changes you can make (most of which, in my opinion, are good to make but won’t actually make you lose weight) but he also talks about slower weight loss — that’s the part I kept of his message.
Slow is good.
I agree with round! Slow & steady wins the race. I dieted when I was 19, and I lost about 4 lbs a month (whilst eating 1200 cals a day). I’m now 35, and I weigh more now than I did then, so I’ve been losing much faster on more calories, but I know eventually the weight loss will slow down. Which is fine! As long as it goes down, right?!