Ok, so I had my first wedding dress fitting on Saturday (and it's going to look amazing!), and was feeling so good about losing 15 pounds in the last month that I decided to set myself a goal of another 15 pounds before the wedding (2 months away).
Somehow, in a matter of 3 days, I've been so obsessed by the goal I've set, that I'm getting anxious and pessimistic about meeting this deadline. I've done this too many times before - I set myself a deadline, promise myself I'll weigh X by then... and when I don't/can't meet that, I get really frustrated and negative ("I'll never lose weight... I may as well never try..." etc).
I've made such wonderful progress in a short time by taking it one day at a time, knowing that I'll get there when I get there. And I feel so good about it - I know that I'm in this for the long run, that I know what I need to do and it'll get me where I need to be. And yet I managed to fall back into the trap of setting myself a deadline (aka "goal"), and in a matter of days I have fallen into the same old circle!
So, I'm removing the "goal" lines from my signature, and focusing on doing what I need to do while letting my body do what it wants. I will lose the weight - and in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter if I do it in 6 months or 36 months... I'm getting stronger, leaner, and healthier - and every time I've set deadlines I end up doing things for all the wrong reasons.
Has anyone else been through this? Is anyone else just monitoring progress without any specific endpoint in mind? Any advice on how to avoid the temptations of setting timelines?