Shelbel- My husband wants to kill me every Saturday with my constant complaining. It all depends on my weight for that week. How pathetic is that? i have to look on the positive side though, I am healthier, thinner, and i can look at myself in the mirror now.
LM- I am 3 pounds from the top weight for my height but I would like to lose another 11 after that- Gosh will that take forever or what?
to all, i plan on getting rid of that stupid scale and weigh at WW. No more missed meetings.
I can no longer kill myself over this weight issue. I will always have a weight problem. That is all!!

Fran
171/134/120

I am so glad I saw this thread I was felling depressed today I stayed op all week and the scale stayed the same I really didn't want to go to my meeting tomorrow but I noticed I would stay the same or lose a lb for a coulple of weeks and then on the third week or so I would drop 3 or 4 lbs. so I guess it does take a while for you body to catch up. My clothes seem to be a lot looser this week even though I didn't lose any lbs.
Thanks for all your replys I will go to my meeting tomorrow with my head held high and know I did my best. Keep smiling all

Hello Fran
I can relate to your problem. I have been on WW for 8 weeks and have lost 4 lbs. The sad thing is I lost 2lbs the 1st week and 1 lb the 2nd week. The other weeks it been like .2 lbs and sometimes not even that. The
first thing I did was look at my journal and realized half the time I wasn't journaling. So that was 1 problem. Then I ask some of the other WW members for advise & that is when they told me I was eating to many carbs..&
not enough fruits & vegetables. So this week I've been trying to add more fruits & vegetables. But the bottom line for me is that I am feeling much better & and I'm eating healthy. I know when I go to the meeting and my friends have lost 2 or 3 lbs and here I am at .2 I just say to myself that eventually .2 + .2 + .2 + .2 + .2 eventually add up to 1 lb. And it much better than gaining 1 lb.
Just stick with it... You have to do this for you.... You can do it, Just take it 1 day at a time....

Hi, well I went to my meeting this morning and I gained 1 half lb. So I went out and got the Tae Bo over 40 tape and I just got finished doing it I feel really good about that I have a little trouble with flexibility on my right side but I pretty much kept up with him, I am going to succeed even if it doesn't show on the scale I do not want to go back to the way I was feeling bad about myself I will just keep moving forward. I learn from the mistakes I have made I went to Subway the other day and read the pamplet after I ate so the next I will leave the cheese off and oil. thanks for listening all. Please write me I like hearing from all of you. Have a great day

Hi,

The scale is actually the worst way to measure success because there are natural weight fluctuations that no amount of work with the program will get rid of. The more often we weigh ourselves the worse off we can feel because we so often take every number to heart.

The other thing about the scale is that our body doesn't care how often we weigh ourselves. It's going to get rid of the pounds on its own schedule. We put the schedule on ourselves thinking that what we do this week will show up on the scale at the next weigh in. Often, it doesn't and we let ourselves get discouraged.

A lot of people have posted some excellent advice, especially the advice to check out your measurements and how your clothes fit.

I have one other piece of advice to add--measure success by behavior changes, not weight loss results. We can control our behavior. We can choose what to eat, how much to exercise, if we drink the water, whether or not we write down what we're doing, etc. We cannot control when the results will show up or how fast they'll happen. All we can do is to control our behavior and accept the results as they happen.

So, when I set goals, I don't set " I'll lose x number of pounds by a certain date" type goals. No matter how reasonable those goals may be, my body may have a different idea about what it's ready to do during that time period. Maybe it's ready to give up more. Maybe less. But if I set behavior goals like I'll drink 8 glasses of water, I can track that and reward myself for the behavior change. The behavior changes build momentum and I stick with the program. That momentum keeps the weight coming off, even if it's a pound at a time. That's my total for March, but that pound, added to another pound, added to another will get me where I want to be. Eventually. I'm not in a hurry, so I don't really care if it takes a while.

One other thing that occurred to me. For what it's worth, I sometimes think WW does a disservice by setting average weight loss amounts. Everyone is different and loses at different rates. But I think that sometimes we see those numbers and if we're not losing at that rate (or faster), we feel cheated, somehow. It's almost as if, somewhere deep inside, we think we're entitled to lose at least at the average rate. That's something I noticed about myself and looking at my average rate, I see that sometimes I lose faster, sometimes I lose at the average, and sometimes slower. I'm learning to accept my body's rate and just keep on going.

Lin

Lin,
Great advice! I totally agree with you with the how WW average weight loss sets an average weight loss. I have yet to reach an average weight loss each week. I will be lucky if i get that pound . I have never seen more than that. I can't complain because all that initial weight has come off. I am glad to see that although I haven't been losing at the rate I have wanted to, it all totals up. Like many of you have said, it is the total picture and i know 37 pounds is not too shabby.

Fran
P.S. Saturday morning before weigh in, I will not touch my scale at home. i am just going to my meeting.!!!