This Might sound stupid but my usual day starts with me getting on the scale. I get on it and i Swear the numbers have gone UP not down. I dont weigh in till friday morning with WW. But i just feel like i am not getting anywhere. It is stressing me out. I thought i would have been able to lose afew pounds by now.
This is totally a stresser-outter and i dont like it at all. Sorry but the more i sit here and dwell on it the more mad and depressed. I had to get that out.
Scales fluctuate in all directions for various reasons. If it's upsetting you that much, or if you think you're being scale obsessed, it's time to put it away. Weigh-in at the meeting.
Faerie is right...weight can fluctuate for any reason. Are you using a lot of the frozen meals? More than what you might have used before? Those have a lot of sodium in them. And for me, TOM almost always brings an extra 3 lbs of water gain.
She's also right that if you are finding weighing yourself daily to be too stressful, just stick to your meetings weigh-ins, or a weekly weigh-in at home if you're not going to meetings.
This is a pattern for you, right? If I remember correctly... you start something, you aren't immediately encouraged, and you give up. If this is a pattern you're going to have to do some fighting to break out of it.
Success is measured by what we do over the long term. What we do from day to day will not reflect our greater success. So your daily weighings may actually be working against you... especially in that they are making you doubt your choices and non-scale progress. Have you been making healthy choices? eating vegetables? exercising? Do you feel better? More energetic? What can you focus on aside from the scale to give you that positive feedback you need?
You've got to give it more time. You're not going to wake up one day and see a huge, effortless loss. It just ain't gonna happen. So whatever part of your brain that's clinging to the idea that this is easy just needs to buck up and recognize that's not reality.
I haven't pulled out my favorite quote in a long time, so here it is:
Losing weight is hard. Being overweight is hard. Maintaining is hard. Pick your hard.
Hey guys,
Judy you are exactly right it is SOOO trying for me because i want to see the weight fall off overnight and i know that is not going to happen. that is why i get into this rut. I do feel good, right now i am seeing my chiropractor so he has asked me to limit my walking right now to everyother day and 2 miles those days max. So i have been walking only a little over 1 on those days. I do get my veggies in for the most part.
I know i gotta give it more time i just get upset and i know if i dont share that with someone then i will quit so i just needed to vent BADLY!!!
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Originally Posted by suitejudyblueeyes
I haven't pulled out my favorite quote in a long time, so here it is:
Losing weight is hard. Being overweight is hard. Maintaining is hard. Pick your hard.
This is a good one which I've never heard before... thanks suite =) I'm keeping that one.
Shannon, I have the same issues with the scale, that's why I don't own one. I've told myself that I'm only gonna weigh in 1-2x per month, if that. Maybe you should leave the scale at someone else house (so you're not tempted) and only weigh in at your meetings. The first 2 weeks OP I didn't lose ANY weight, but my clothes felt looser, so after that I decided to wait as long as I could between weigh ins.
I agree with what everyone else has said. You've made the right decision and I hope you find it in yourself to keep at it. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think I saw on the 20 something forum that you're getting married at the end of the month? That probably has added to it all. You will look beautiful in your dress on your day no matter what the scale says. That is only ONE day in your life, and you should focus on the fact that you have found someone right for you that you have decided to spend the rest of your life with. Clearly he wants to marry you and not the dress... you are very fortunate to find someone who wants to be with you exactly as you are =)
I hope you feel better about all this soon and take care
I completely understand where you are coming from. When you finally find it in you to commit to a plan you expect to see the results right? Although I catch myself being frustrated sometimes I know that long-term this is the best decision.
In my case, I admit that I do weigh each and everyday but I wont let a small spike up get me down. My weight fluctuates A LOT throughout the day. Sometimes by 3 or more lbs. TOM also has an effect on it as does sodium intake. Heck, I once weighed myself after I drank TONS of water and was about 4lbs heavier than my normal weight!
Just keep at it! You've come this far!!!! YOU CAN DO IT!
Thanks everyone,, I weigh in with WW tomorrow.. I am so nervous. I Hope i lost a few pounds. I would be happy with two. I just know if that scale says something else i am going to lose it..
My scale is put away so I don't see it everyday. I was sneaking on it mid-week which is ok during my first few weeks on WW as I was losing enough to show up, but when I slow down to the 1-2 lbs per week or start fluctuating, I am certain that it would bother me if I continued to do that. So, I am not going to sneak on during the week and only weight myself once a week. I don't need anymore self-sabotage than I already do.. LOL
I used to wi every morning.. and it drove me INSANE!!! If you can try to cut it back to 2x a week.. I know it's hard but I'd rather wait than go crazy.
The scale should be on the bottom of your list of things that show you success. Your true victories are making permanent changes to your eating, exercising, drinking more water, making healthier choices. When you do these things, the scale will go down. There are loads of people walking around that are thin and totally unhealthy. You can be thin and still have a lot of BF if you don't exercise. If you exercise a lot, you build more muscle so the weight may be more but you are a lot healthier.
So Stinking agitated, upset, depressed..
