Goal 2: 249 by 02/29/2012 - EPIC FAIL

Today's Weight: 252.8 up 2 pounds since Friday.

This week just continues to get better and better and better.

This is why I hate time-based goals.

Since hitting your last goal point, you've lost 5.2 lbs. That's 5.2 lbs gone, and that's a VICTORY! Just because you didn't make an arbitrary checkpoint you set for yourself doesn't mean that the 5.2 lbs you've lost don't count. They're a success that needs to be celebrated.

mandalinn82: I know I have lost 5.2 pounds since my first goal and they are being celebrated. I do however believe I need to rethink my goal process and come up with a better plan.

I always framed my goals on things I could control. I know, for example, that I can be totally on plan and still have the scale go up, due to hormonal fluctuations, sodium, etc. But I CAN control what exercise I do, or what foods I eat. So I'd do goals like "30 days of exercise in a row", "1200 minutes of exercise in March", or "21 days in a row under 1500 calories". Those are all goals that are within my power to achieve, unlike scale goals (I mean, to a degree, I control the scale over time, but I don't control it on a day to day basis with my actions - hormones, weight lifting, and other things all make it go haywire).

Do you weigh yourself everyday? I notice that I will flucuate even two pounds, but in the end, I'll definitely have lost weight. Maybe you caught yourself on a high flucuation point. Give yourself til friday before getting down you'll probably be surprised.

Mandalinn's 100% correct. You cannot control the scale, at all. Basing goals, especially time based ones, on things like the number on the scale is asking for failure. You absolutely must frame your goals in doable, positive terms. Instead of weighing _______ by X date, why not say "I will eat between 1600-1800 calories every day, without overages, for the next two months" and then weigh yourself at the end and celebrate your inevitable losses? You didn't fall two or three pounds short of your goal, you succeeded at getting five pounds off!

Negative self talk will destroy you faster than any happy meal. In this, you are in control. Speak kindly to yourself, live out actions that have positive connotations and results, and always celebrate the glass half full, not the little bit that spilled. And that goes for life in general, not just weight loss.

Now, granted, even obese I was one of those unbearably cheerful people, but I have also loved myself at every weight I've been at, and every slow pound gone has been a victory. I highly suggest you try a positive outlook and positive goals, I think the benefits will surprise you

Yes Ms G you have your information correct. And don't look at me that way! LOL!! I am re doing my goals as we speak and not depending so much on dates and more on progress.

Thanks Alitorry I am hoping by friday which is my normal official weigh in days that I go back down to at least where I started the week.

Thank you Mama I am very happy I have lost those 5 pounds and I am working on a new way to track my goals right now!