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Originally Posted by teresac
Greetings...I need the support of others who have been in my place an came back to succeed. I started the IP plan on February 18th. I am 100% faithful during waking hours, but get up and eat at night. Recently I have started to throw away ANYTHING that I get up and eat at night the next day. Every day is better, and I had my most faithful week ever last week. However, I look on these posts and feel like a failure!!! All of you report so much weight loss and I have not even lost an entire 10 pounds yet. I either lose or stay the same, but you alll know that the cost of this plan is high and I feel SO GUILTY about not being more successful. I have given myself until July 15 to reach my goal...which means I need to lose another 42 pounds. Should I just quit now and not invest the money or should I keep on it? I am already so dissapointed that I will start summmer without having reached my goal. I had such a solid plan. Any advice or encouragement would be MOST appreciated.
I remember you. Your issue is more sleep-eating rather than conscious snacking, right? ((hugs)) I have thought about you a lot, because I keep having these dreams of having mindlessly cheated, but I am always relieved to wake up and find it was just a dream. Then I think about people with this problem and how disheartening it must be. I don't happen to have this particular problem, so I don't have any practical advice, but I can give you a peptalk.
I sometimes, too, compare myself to others around here and get frustrated. But you have to run your own race. Try not to envy anyone else's body . . . you never know the whole story and, chances are, you really would not trade with them. I used to do this all the time. Every Sunday in church, I would notice a particular woman who was tall and blonde and slim, and I always thought she looked so good in clothes. Know what I mean? How some people's frames just hold clothes well? Well, anyway, I used to really envy her and, in turn, pity myself for not having that body. Well, that body got very, very sick with a rare brain disease and she died in months. That taught me a valuable lesson -- my body may be overweight and may have some hormonal issues that have made it very difficult for me in the past, but it is still alive and healthy and doing all it can for me. You never know what is going on with anyone else. When I think that I was envying a body that was about to fail . . . Focus on yourself and your body; that's all that really matters anyway.
As Lisa said, you need to shake this time frame stuff. That is almost a guarantee to make you feel defeated. Every body is different and the truth is, IP is very new to most of us, we have no idea how our bodies will react and at what pace we will lose. If I were you, I'd erase that end date and just start working toward a weekly loss.
I understand about the cost. I am doing this all myself, because I just could not justify the cost at this time. We had a tremendous financial burden to overcome a couple of years ago due to a family tragedy, and I needed some personal therapy to get through it, too . . .I could not justify yet another expenditure on myself, so I am doing it myself. Now that you know the plan, could you go it alone?
If you don't want to do that, then remember how important you are to your family and those who love you. Your health and happiness are more than worth it to them, I'm sure.
Hang in there -- and I'm glad you came forward with your feelings. That is a very positive thing.