What an interesting topic of discussion! It is too easy to get frustrated when that scale does not cooperate. This is one of the reasons why I only weigh in once a week (usually). But even then it can be your enemy.
Like Lindsy mentioned, it's very psychological. I don't think it's possible to feel sexy and happy with ourselves 100% of the time, even at goal weight. But you add a weight loss stall or slow losses (raising hand here) to the equation, and it can be downright depressing!
This week I am down one more pound, but that still just makes it only 4.5 pounds in the last 5 weeks. Like you, Erin, I know there are things I could have done to speed up the loss. I stick to my diet pretty well, with a couple of eating-too-many-good-foods days though. But my exercising is another story. I used the excuse of being too sore from Callanetics last week and only got in 1 day of exercise. Well, I could have just walked on those sore days. We do get pretty good at making excuses for ourselves, don't we? But who are we really fooling?
I do like your plan about getting in more water and cutting back on carbs. Carbs, even the healthy ones, can be so evil because they all turn to sugar and slow down our losses.
I was feeling bummed out about my slow losses the other day and went searching in Google for some weight loss/motivational quotes. I found so many, but these were the top 10 I posted on my blog:
1.You get whatever you settle for.
2. Listen closely! The only time it’s too late to change yourself is when you’re dead. Until then, you’re simply making excuses.
3. My life tomorrow will be the result of my attitudes and the choices I make today.
4. Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
5. A year from now, you may wish you had started today!
6. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
7. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
8. There are only 2 options regarding commitment: You’re either in or you’re out. There is no such thing as life in-between.
9. A goal without a plan is just a wish
10. Quitting is NOT an option!
Aren't these right on the money? Hopefully they can be helpful to you, Erin, and any others here who need a little peptalk.
Oh, and on another subject entirely, for any of you girls who are looking for something to lenghten your lashes but don't want to spend an arm and a leg on Lasstise, I highly recommend RapidLash (
I swear that I do not work for them...I just absolutely love this product).
A year ago my lashes were falling out like crazy and getting shorter and shorter. I've never in my life had long lashes or anything close to it, but didn't want to continue losing lashes and wanted something that could give them a little length. I couldn't afford anything expensive like Lasstise, which is over $100 each month, so I started to research other lash enhancers that were much more reasonable. RapidLash on Amazon was selling for $25 (at the time...it's now up to $38) so I bought it there. One tube lasts me 2 1/2 to 3 months, so that only comes out around $13 a month for RapidLash. Not too shabby!
Anyway, it took longer than the 4-6 weeks to see results. It was more like 7-8 weeks, but they started to get longer. It took a couple months longer than that to get fuller, and now I have a couple extra rows of lashes as well as added length. AND they curl up on their own now. Bye, bye eyelash curler.
I hope this is not coming off as sounding conceited, but I wanted to show you the difference from one year ago because I'm really amazed. The first picture shows just how short they were without mascara at the start (even with mascara, they did not get much longer than this). The second picture is after one year of using RapidLash but with two light coats of mascara, no eyelash curler was used.
Isn't that a remarkable difference? I tell you, not even with fake eyelashes did my lashes look like this. My husband walked in while I was posting these pictures on my blog and said, "Whoa! What a difference! Those are your lashes?" It made my day.
Okay, back to weight loss talk! I wish everyone here much sucess this week. We are in the home stretch with Halloween exactly 3 weeks away. That means I have to lose 4 pounds in that time to make my goal. I gotta get serious and get all my workouts in this week and watch my protion size better (stop when I'm satified, not stuffed). I'm aiming for at least a 2-pound loss by next Monday.
Ghoul luck to you all!