I’m down another pound.  I’m down 13.5 since I started.  I’m okay with a pound a week.  Susan suggested I look at a 1 lb. package of ground beef for comparison purposes, and imagine that not being on me anymore.  It helped to visualize the pound since it just doesn’t seem like much.  If I keep losing a pound a week, I am going to insist that I’m happy with it.  Everyone else in my weight loss group is doing well, so congratulations . . . we haven’t had one week where someone has gained.  Go us! 

edit:  this is a great article about “slow” weight loss for those needing some extra support.

I felt pretty good this week - not too hungry,not too wiped out - and I lost another pound.  I’m down 10.5 pounds total.  I’d love to still be losing 2 pounds a week, but it is what it is - and I’ll take it!

I stepped on the scale this morning full of dread.  4 straight days of working out - hard - and watching everything that went in my mouth and my big weight loss this week is .5 pounds.  Not 5 pounds, .5.  Half of a freakin’ pound.

I know this happens and I also know that there are many reasons why some weeks you lose more than others, but it is depressing when you feel like you are working so hard and the scale only moves a fraction.  Seeing those stupid Medifast commercials isn’t helping either where people are talking about a 10 lb weight loss in week.  My written reminder to myself is - it took 6 years to get to this weight, and it’s not going to disappear in 2 months. 

I’m choosing to use this as practice, however, because in the past something like this would have made me flip and become extreme.  I would have extended my workouts to 2 hours (before kids, of course), restricted food even further, or stopped eating certain meals.  I’m going to fight the urge to make the scale move faster - better - more dramatically and stick with what I’m doing.