Weight Loss & Mind Games

mazmataz

Do you ever completely doubt that you are actually making any progress, that it's all just a mind game and that you're kidding yourself?

It's weird psychology at play when on this journey I think!

Like yesterday I weighed in and lost weight (woop!), only I spent the rest of the day thinking that I probably didn't lose anything, that I was probably just dehydrated or that the scales were off.. Or when I log calories I often later think "I bet that had way more calories than I actually logged, I'm kidding myself"....even though in reality I tend to overlog calories to give myself a margin for error.

It wasn't until I was at the doctors this morning, and I weighed a good bit less on their 'real/medical' (silly I know) scales with my all of my clothes and shoes than the last time I visited that the little devil in my mind got on board and agreed 'hmm well maybe I have made some progress!".

Hopefully it's not just me!

oreo_cookies_1992

LITERALLY ME.
Especially the logging part. I weigh all my food and even though I can see the number on the scale right in front of me, I enter it in MFP and always think.. pfft! How is that only x amount of cals'?
I'm also bad for over logging and thinking ' meh, I probably screwed up and under logged somewhere else so it's ok if that's more cals than I actually measured'

LynnJ9

For me, the mind game is not believing I can add calories and still lose weight. I was losing 1 1/2 lbs a week at 1200 calories, and now I only have 8 more pounds to lose, so I want to start adding calories. Went to 1450 calories which should be a 1 lb loss per week. But my mind keeps telling myself that my loss is gong to stop or I am going to gain weight.
I am sticking to the increase in calories. Here's to proving myself wrong (or would I be proving myself right??). Anyway, here's to continuing to lose!

tess5036

Yep, same here

JeromeBarry1

It's all mind games. Damn the tortillas, or damn me, but this one day is not going to be the definition of my life.