1.5
So the scale finally moved. It's down 1.5 which is a start even though it took more than two weeks!
Food: I've been logging my food intake this week which makes me more aware of what i'm eating. I'm still avoiding snacking in front of the TV.
I was drinking green tea at work in the mornings and i heard that it may cause bloating so i decided to switch to peppermint tea instead. I don't know if it's true or not but it's not a big deal for me to stop drinking it. I'll have to look into it more when i have some time.
Exercise: I have been sticking to all the workouts i have scheduled. So far, I have managed to motivate myself to do them even when i didn't really feel like it. I do feel better after so i just need to keep reminding myself of that.
I'm hoping my progress will start to speed up now. That would really help to keep me motivated.
I feel like i have such a long way to go right now. I know it's going to take some time to reach my goals so i'm trying to make changes that i can maintain long term. I don't want to deprive myself of food only to binge at some point. I don't want to set unrealistic expectations that I MUST workout every day and then end up doing nothing. Most of all i don't want to sabotage my own efforts to succeed.
Food: I've been logging my food intake this week which makes me more aware of what i'm eating. I'm still avoiding snacking in front of the TV.
I was drinking green tea at work in the mornings and i heard that it may cause bloating so i decided to switch to peppermint tea instead. I don't know if it's true or not but it's not a big deal for me to stop drinking it. I'll have to look into it more when i have some time.
Exercise: I have been sticking to all the workouts i have scheduled. So far, I have managed to motivate myself to do them even when i didn't really feel like it. I do feel better after so i just need to keep reminding myself of that.
I'm hoping my progress will start to speed up now. That would really help to keep me motivated.
I feel like i have such a long way to go right now. I know it's going to take some time to reach my goals so i'm trying to make changes that i can maintain long term. I don't want to deprive myself of food only to binge at some point. I don't want to set unrealistic expectations that I MUST workout every day and then end up doing nothing. Most of all i don't want to sabotage my own efforts to succeed.
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Glad that scale started moving. 1.5 pounds in 2 weeks shows what you're doing is working. Yeah, I know you wanted more than that and I don't blame you. I've been holding steady at a pound a week for a while now and it's really frustrating. But it adds up, and pretty soon it'll be 5 pounds, then 10 pounds. And it seems like the months it'll take to get to your goal are soooo far away, but the fact is that time will pass whether you lose weight or not. I can't tell you how many times I've run across some abandoned diet log I started where I wrote down what my weight would be if I lost a pound a week. And there'd be some nice number forecasted for, say, April 10th. And I'd be reading this on, say, May 15th. And, of course, I wouldn't have lost that weight because I'd not stuck to that diet at least in part because it seemed so long before I'd get to a goal weight. Yet there I was, way past that day that had seemed so long ago, and had I just sucked it up and stuck it out, I'd have lost the weight.
Which is just a wordy way of saying, suck it up and stick it out. Don't think too much about it. Just do it and resign yourself to having it take some time. Each day that goes by makes it easier to get through the next. |
 
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You are absolutely right and i know it. Thanks for the encouragement.
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Elle - that is great!! I definitely know how it feels to not have the scale move but as long as you keep doing what you have been, it has no choice and you finally saw that today.
I have a long way to go too but this time I've accepted that it will take awhile and the changes are long-term. And as long as things are trending downward, I don't get too crazy about the result from week to week. |
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