I wanted to share my experience...
Back about a year and a half ago, the scale had bounced up a little bit to 222. I remember working very hard: counting calories, eating right, biking, lifting weights, waiting for it to go down. Every day I saw: 222, 221, 222, 222, 221, 222, 222, 222.... until I thought I would lose my mind and started to hate 2's. One day after skipping some favorite treat the night before and hoping for a loss, I got on the scale and saw: 222. I got off the scale, thought "what's the use?" and went in the kitchen and binged. For days I binged. And guess what? Lucky me, I didn't see 222 again for over a year! Instead, I saw: 233, 234, 235, 236... even 245. Up and down for over a year but couldn't seem to get back down. And after about 9 months of that I thought, "I would LOVE to be stuck at 222 again." And when a year and a half later I finally saw 222, I was so happy and I didn't care if I stayed there for a month, as long as I didn't have to go back up again.
So being "stuck" at 217/216 for a couple of weeks might not be my ideal outcome, but ya know, it is a much better place to be stuck than anywhere else I have been in the last year and a half! I get a little miffed at the scale/my body on occasion but it is fleeting... and I really do enjoy life regardless of what "label" number the scale spits at me each day.
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