Often I'll read posts in which people seem to be down on themselves, sometimes losing lots of weight and still being dissatisfied with how they look. I seem to have the opposite problem: Even though I've lost only about 12-15 lbs. (I don't weigh but I've gone from a 14 to a loose 12 / snug 10), I am finding it hard to get motivated to lose the rest, and I need to lose about 25 more; my goals is a loose-fitting size 8.
Right now, though, things seem just fine: I have a whole "new" wardrobe of clothes that now fit (clothes that I had outgrown), so there's no desperation there. I even was willing to have my picture taken on a recent vacation, and I didn't look fabulous, but I didn't have that shock of "Oh my lord, look how fat I am!" I looked the same as I thought I would look. Also, I'm married, and my husband couldn't care less about whether I stay this weight forever or lose weight (actually, he probably would like it less if I lost more than 10 more pounds since he would think I'm "too skinny" after that--LOL!).
My point is that I don't seem to have a lot of motivation to get to a specific goal, and for the first time, that feeling has absolutely nothing to do with diet fatigue. I'm not burned out at all. In past dieting attempts, I've always been chomping at the bit to get to goal, and that can be frustrating, but this darn contentment with myself is sort of frustrating as well. I keep asking myself, "Where's my drive?"
I think the above mentality is causing me to drift into maintaining mode rather than losing mode. For instance, this week for the first time since I started losing weight in June, my calories for the week averaged out to 1700calories per day, which is approximately maintenance calories for my goal weight of 140.
Does anyone else have this problem?