Hello Ali... I've been a member of WW since April 2001 and just yesterday reached my 50 lbs lost mark (I still have 50 to go). I've been in a bit of a funk the last few months as well... literally one week I'd gain, the next I'd lose - repeated for about 2.5 months. It was very frustrating because I really did want to lose the weight, but i just couldn't seem to get back 'with the program'. I talked to my leader about it and she said that I was doing was basically going through a 'self-induced' plateau of sorts. I'd been on the program for months, it was successful and working, and I was basically testing the boundaries of it... to see how far it would flex and bend. I think it comes down to the fact that once you're on it for awhile you realize that it can still work without being as strict about food as you may have been in the beginning... so you test to see how far you can go with it. Which, she says, is normal. I don't suppose there's any real advice in here anywhere, but I just wanted to pass on what she'd said to me.
BTW, after listening to her talk about this, she gave me a challenge. 2 weeks ago I got to 49.8 lbs lost so she gave me a challenge to lose 0.2 lbs. Basically the smallest amount you can lose. And for whatever reason it worked. I wasn't concerned about losing multiple pounds... there's such a pressure surrounding that. All I did was focus on doing everything I could possibly do to lose that little amount and yesterday I did it. I weighed in and surpassed the little goal she had set for me - breaking the pattern of up, down, up, down. I had 2 consecutive losses in a row for the first time since before Christmas.
Hmm... I guess maybe the moral to this long-winded story afterall, is to think small. Don't stress yourself out over the big picture... take each meal at a time, each day at a time, then each week at a time. Slowly those small steps will build up to something bigger and you won't even realize it.
Christine
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