I took the butter idea further. I don't buy butter anymore, but while shopping after a discouraging Weight Watchers weigh-in where I'd "only" lost one pound (after several weeks of losing 2-4) I picked up a pound of butter and held it in my hand. As I felt that greasy pound of fat I imagined it spread over my body (but not in a kinky way
). I started making a habit of going to the dairy dept. and putting in my empty cart the total amount of weight I had lost and having a real good look at it (this was particularly helpful when I was on a plateau and feeling discouraged, because seeing the total would remind me how much I'd lost, even if I wasn't adding to the cart).
Sure, I got some strange looks, especially as my loss exceeded 50lbs. and the cart would be half-full, but I was in my own little world of weight visualization. When the day came that I recieved my certificate at WW for having lost 100lbs, I hurried to the grocery store with a friend to load up the cart. Unfortunately, there wasn't 100 pounds of butter on the shelf, but that in itself was awesome enough to bring home to me how much I'd lost.
I revealed to my WW meeting members what I'd been up to and a few said they'd be too embarrassed to ever do such a thing, but a few weeks later, while shopping, I saw a woman put around 10lbs. of butter in her cart, stare at it a bit, smile, then return the butter to the shelf. She didn't see me, but I gave her a thumbs up anyway!