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Originally Posted by Riestrella
First of all - I really like your avatar! I honestly feel like there is a healthy, athletic version of myself inside my flabby body that is waiting to break through!
Now onto your post . Do you feel you have to be losing dramatically each week? I read your post and I would be over the moon if I was losing 1-2 lbs consistently! You should be really happy too. It's probably ridiculous, but when I'm losing slowly I feel safer almost? Almost like it's not a fluke or I won't get loose skin because my weight loss was steady rather than all at once. ..(edit for room)...
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Thank you!! It encourages me to at least feel more athletic/like I am getting somewhere, even when the scale is being rude and not budging. Plus, I actually feel like the inside body... even though I don't look it -_-
I think if I were maybe in the one hundreds rather than the two hundreds, losing 1-2 lbs a week would be fine. But since I weigh so much, I can literally lose/gain 2-5 pounds in a day so it feels like nothing. It takes overall at least 30 lbs before I can see any difference anywhere, and even then it's very small differences... so several months of making personal changes with little results is disheartening.
To be honest, I have lost 18 lbs so far and feel bigger than ever. I think before I was ignoring the problem, but now that I am paying attention I realize how big I actually am and it's heart breaking. Being tall (I'm 5'10) helps a little, but it also has allowed me to live in the land of denial for too long.
You have a really good point with the idea of * hopefully * less loose skin though! The skin thing is horrifying, I know I am going to need at least a boob job when I am done and thinking that I may look worse after all this work is scary. Gotta keep thinking tight skin thoughts lol.
Also, yay moving!!! It's great news that you guys are getting an additional car, mine is only 3 years old and is already almost as many miles
Probably shouldn't have bought it since it was only like a year old and already had nearly 60,000 miles.. but ya know. Live and learn.