MELT DOWN!!!!

You can put goals in place, and work toward them, but your body didn't get the message. It's doing what it needs to do, not what you want it to do! If you keep plodding along and doing all you can. Keep getting back to it when you slip. One of these days (you can't put a schedule on it) you will see results begin to happen. Our bodies aren't designed to loose. It wants to protect us against famine!

It will happen. Just not always when we want it to! Keep going for the long haul. This kind of thing takes a lot of patience!

It will happen. It will happen.

I do not understand how you joined three days ago, have already lost 7 pounds, and expected to lose another 6 more. Did you set up your account with what you had already lost prior to joining? Weight loss takes time, as the previous poster said, 1 - 2 pounds per week is healthy. The biggest thing that has worked for me has been making healthier choices, staying within my daily calorie goals, and trying to eat ALL of my exercise calories. I am projected to lose .8 pounds per week because I am already down to 1200 calories a day. In the first 3 or 4 months, I lost an average of 5 pounds per month. Since then it has been up and down, but overall, I had lost 27 pounds in 6 months. I beat my goal, changed my goal, and beat that goal as well. You can do it. Just take it one day at a time. Watch your sodium and make sure you are drinking all of your water. :flowerforyou:

sorry you are upset. but you need to calm down and realistically consider the goals you've set for yourself. What you're trying to do is admirable, but your weight gain didn't happen overnight and there is no magic wand that will get it off in a few weeks. You are blessed with children and have lost 7 lbs so far. That is a great job! You need to realize you've accomplished quite a bit with that.

How much water are you drinking? are you tracking your sodium levels so you don't retain extra fluid? do you allow for the temp gain during TOM? what type diet are you doing? low carb, low glycemic? how much and what kinds of exercise for strength and cadio do you do?

You need to make gradual adjustments as you discover what works for you, do them so they become habitual, make a few more tweaks and keep going. Wanting to live healthier is admirable and a great example to your kids. But you are in a marathon, not a sprint. There is no drive-thru weight loss altho there are websites and ads that would like you to think so and spend $$ on them.
Do you have a nutritionist you can talk to about portions? Have you gotten all the junk food out of the house?

You can lose weight and inches by November, but it's not going to be all of it. You need to plan this out. That is your first goal, the next loss can be your Xmas present, etc. You also have to plan ahead for after you do reach goal, then what? How are you going to maintain it?

All of us on this site have bad days, personal tragedies and meltdowns. It's allowed. Don't beat yourself up about it. Just stay focused, renew your determination, get mad and go for a walk and stomp it off--whatever works. But do forgive yourself if you miss a particular goal--it happens to all of us--because you are trying your best.

God bless and good luck to you!:flowerforyou:

I have a melt down every single month. Then you wake up and try again. That's how it works! It does work. Keep at it!

she's gone. deactivated her account.

AFTER sending me a friend request! Go figure!