a) I’m a woman. Which means it’s pretty much automatically more difficult for me to lose weight than my male counterparts (i.e. my husband).
b) I’m slammed with PCOS, which just adds more difficulty to the battle of losing weight.
c) Even if I’m ok with the modest lose-1-pound-every-week thing, I still lose one week of progress every single month due to the dreaded TOM. It’s just not fair!! I spend the whole week hungrier than usual and craving more than usual, and diligently abstaining. But, even though I’m really good and really proud of myself for not caving into the chocolate calling my name, it’s not like I lose any weight for the sacrifice anyhow! ARG!

I just needed to express my annoyance at these facts. Thanks for listening.

I want to whine way more than that about all those things!!! Thank you for saying it before I did! Hang in there, and good job staying away from the chocolate!

I completely relate to what you're saying, I usually just give in and allow myself a treat during "that" week, otherwise I'd probably go insane. My cravings go from wanting something really sweet to wanting something really salty, it's always extremes with me. It's frustrating, I know, but I've accepted it even though I know it's slowing down my weight loss process.

Oh yes I feel the exact same way! Sometimes it doesn't feel fair that the other gender doesn't have to work as hard as we do to lose or even maintain weight. Just one of the many glories of being a woman.

Though, in reality it just shows that us ladies are stronger

Hang in there!

A.

I feel you... but... you know you can have something chocolate... not to turn this thread into chocolate, but a piece of dark chocolate melted with some strawberries is a healthy treat... just saying, you might feel better if you can have some chocolate. Recent article also has said chocolate eaters are thinner http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleas...s_are_thinner/

In my case it's the opposite -- unfair for my husband. He had a heart attack two years ago and has been eating (what to me is) a very bland diet since then, with no saturated fats and very little salt. I would find it hard to live without eggs and cheese.

F.

I do get you!

However, rule number one.

"Life is not fair!"

If life was fair, I wouldn't be hanging out here!

3-4 pounds a month is good.

My best tip. I have a calendar hanging above my scale in the bathroom. I weigh myself every morning. Write it on the calendar.

Evaluate at the end of the month. In losing mode, if I was less at the end than at the beginning, I'm a winner!

In maintaining, as long as I'm maintaining, I'm a winner!

I have done this, through my DH's horrific hand injury, 15 months off work, 3 amputations, and then his A-fib heart condition, and meds and surgery, and more meds, currently, most likely, he will either have a severe stroke and be a veg or die from his condition.

Currently, we are taking each day as it comes and spending as much time as we can with our granddaughters!

It's not an easy row to hoe, but it is what we have, so we make the best of it.

This:
Is awesome advice! Totally doing this!

I was just thinking the same thing! My husband has lost about all he needs to, has started looking trim and defined, can now do 50 push ups at a time, its just frustrating.

To make it worse, I'm on the hormonal roller coaster known as my cycle. I weighed myself on my weekly weigh in day and I had gained, ugh. Weighed the next day and was down, that night was back up. It's just annoying.

I look at it this way, I had/have more to lose than he does, so its going to take longer. It is what it is, I just have to move forward.