Day 2..Staying Focused!!
 

Hello all,..

I am on day 2 of my eating plan..I did great yesterday, gotten most of my veggies, fruits, lean protein,fats, grains..I am proud that am eating clean!! Am snacking raw baby carrots and air popcorn. It feels good on snacking healthy!!

I also took a peak on my scale this morning, I promised myself to weigh after Christmas..but could not resist..So when I weighed this morning, it says 410 at a 16 Lbs loss...Is that possible?? Am doing my best on the water intake.. I am happy, but knowing it is water weight..since one out of 2 pressure pills is a water pill. I have not started any fitness regimen yet, am just focusing on staying on plan till the new year and begin my workout video.

Should I claim that 16 Lbs loss?? or just wait patiently on weighing in end of this month?? Thank you for your support and input.. Enjoy your day.. :hug:

****, yes, claim it! That's what gives us all momentum at the beginning. Take it one day at a time (heck, sometimes, I just have to take it one meal at a time). It's hard, but oh, so worth it!!!!!!!!

Keep up the good work!

Definitely claim it! Whoot out to you!! :carrot: That's got to feel awesome! Revel in it!

Sure, some of it's water...water that's weighing you down! I don't think it matters. It's still off your joints. ;)

I'm so happy for you and so glad to hear of your newfound motivation to see this through.

Excellent, keep it up! I noticed big losses at first, but now it is baby steps. Enjoy it while it lasts. :)

Hi Liliann :)

I think it would be great to take some basic measurements, too, like maybe waist, hips, and thigh so you can see that you are shrinking and not have to rely solely on the scale. Keep up the effort and the results will come :)

Thank you everyone!! I am grateful of your support!!:carrot::)

I measure everything that is measurable! If I can get a tape around it, I measure it and track it. It's amazing to see where you are losing inches (like your wrist and ankles). LOL!

That's a fantastic loss and it is all yours so claim it!

If getting on the scale and seeing all the fluctuations we women have throughout the month stresses you out, don't do it until your official day.

But if it motivates you, claim every ounce.

Just because it's water doesn't mean it isn't actual weight you've had to lug around! Claim it!

Good for you, Liliann - you are off to a great start.

Yes darlin every single ounce loss is loss! You are doing a fabulous job!! You are off and running :D
Before I started my diet my legs hurt to the touch so bad. It was fluid in them. After I lost about 20 Lbs. all that pain stopped.
I think taking measurements is a great idea. You can watch the numbers go down and that is really cool. Keeping a journal is good too. Date it and when you weigh date and log that. There have been times I thought it was going slow or I thought I was doing something wrong...but when I looked back over the journal I could see changes :write: small ones and large ones.
Congratulations Liliann ~ I hope you have great success in your weight loss and getting more healthy:hug:

great Job! Keep it up.. Congrats.

Hi Liliann, I am glad to hear you had a great day eating yesterday! Good for you, now you just gotta keep it going!

Starting up in a really high weight range like you, I'll share with you what is working for me weighing-wise. When I first started, it became very apparent to me right away that getting on the scale constantly was going to be a BIG problem for me. I would start to focus so much on the numbers that it started to screw up my head. Oh no, only 0.5 lbs down, last week it was 5 lbs, better skip a meal or 2, this has to happen faster, what am I doing wrong, OMG I'M SO BIG, arrgh, get back on the scale, OMG it's UP 0.2 now, ahhhh, no dinner for me! I really had to stop that nonsense, and fast.

I decided to put the scale away for a month and focus ONLY on the eating and moving a bit more. If you continue to make the right food choices and try to be a bit more active, the weight WILL start to come off. After that first monthly weigh-in and I was down significantly, that felt really good and I decided to wait another month to weigh. Always have been rewarded with a decent loss, and I have been able to appreciate the changes on my actual body as it happens rather than seeing what the scale has to say about it, THEN noticing.

I decided recently to start weighing weekly, so I weighed Thursday and had a 0.5 lb loss. ALL the same thoughts as at the beginning came flooding back, I am just not ready yet to start eyeballing the scale yet. I am going to try weekly weighing again when I get into the 240s, because I feel at some point I need to come to terms with the numbers and the daily ups and downs -- so I can tweak my plan as necessary to keep losing. But now is NOT the time for me, I discovered.

Whatever you decide, as long as it works for you and you are able to keep the BEHAVIORS at the forefront instead of the numbers on the scale. I just wanted to share this with you, because while it's great to see 16 lbs down in one day, that's not going to be the norm and I don't want you to get discouraged when that levels off and the couple pounds a week (or less) starts to kick in.