I am really trying not to see this as a side effect of the new plan, but for the past couple of months my weight has been going up and down. I'll lose 3-5 pounds one week only to gain most or all of it back the next. And it's not like I'm doing anything drastically different food or activity wise from one week to the next. One week I will be cheering and thinking I've finally broken the cycle, only to be disheartened and frustrated when I see that scale jump back up the next week. I weigh just .6 lbs less now than I did mid-November.
Although I'm tempted, I don't plan to switch back to Momentum, at least not yet. I have set up a Sparkpeople account though, and will be tracking my calories alongside my points.
I have always been an emotional eater, and this has been a real test of my new way of life, let me tell you. The old me would have said screw it and dived headfirst into a chocolate cake weeks ago. Some days it's all I can do to hold on and stay on track. I keep telling myself that even if I never lose another pound, I am way better off now than I was when I started, and that how I live and eat now is healthy and good and what I need and want to be doing for the rest of my life anyway.
*sigh* I just had to vent a bit. I've gotten this far and am so close to my goal that it's incredibly frustrating to be stuck like this.