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.