Anybody feel weird with success?

i know EXACTLY what u mean...i havent been cutting everything out of my diet like many ppl on here, i still eat fast food, and chocolate, and ice cream, and go out to eat often...but i have lost 2 lbs a week ever since i got on here- because i am staying under my cal count! and it does kinda feel weird when you kno ur week wasnt amazing or super healthy but u lost 3 lbs ya know?

ur totally right...but im glad its working and i dont feel like im on a diet...not even a little- ITS GREAT....i love my fitness pal !!!

I've only lost 17, but I know what you mean. I don't really workout a lot, I eat everything in moderation (including ice cream and brownies) and I never feel like I'm starving myself.

man! that USED to be exactly how I felt. I lost 20 pounds "easily." I still had to practice self-control, which was a new concept for me at the time, but it seemed so simple. then five more pounds came off a little more slowly.

but now, after the past three months i've gained those 5 back and i am having a really tough time sticking with it. my job changed so i don't get to calculate anything until the end of day (whereas before i calculated after ever meal). without the constant reminder and checking in at least three times a day, i just can't keep my mind in the right place. i'll eat snacks during the day knowing full well that i don't have the calories to spare, but i eat them anyway. then i'll calculate at the end of the day and see that i went over by 900, 1300, even 1800 calories and I just don't seem to care. i do the same thing the next day!

back when i started all this i used to panic if i went over by even 10 calories. how do i get back that drive to take it so seriously?

I don't know about you but, for me it all happened when I wasn't comfortable looking at myself in the mirror or I started to hate to try on clothes and I've never been that kind of a person.

Maybe try to get a smart phone (Droid, blackberry or iphone) , this way you could enter it more often. Good luck,!

Even though I've been losing 2 lbs a week
I feel like i eat about the same as i used to. Maybe i'm wrong... maybe portions were my problem or something, but this does seem just WAY too easy! haha
I don't think I'll feel successful until I hit like 25 lb loss though...

I know what you mean, I went from from being 5'11" 270 plus pounds to 192 lbs within the span of about 7 months. I see myself in the mirror everyday and it still seems strange after spending nearly all my life fat. I still try to suck in my gut to squeeze through spaces that I can easily walk through sometimes. I doesn't feel real yet and I don't think about it until I look in the mirror or someone makes a comment to me. Its weird but its awesome!! Enjoy it and keep it up!!

I've got no small amount guilt myself, as well. I'm 5'7" 161 lbs, starting off 195 lbs on July 1 of this year. I entered a weight loss competition with my work-mates, as I felt it would be good motivation. I was on the smaller side of the people entered, with what I felt was a reasonable 6-month goal (175 lbs). There were many people well into the 200's. Well, I hit my goal in 2 months flat, and have been losing weight ever since.

It's never seen like a great struggle to me, and to see people around me having a genuinely hard time with it is very difficult. I'm on track to win a good chunk of cash, and I suppose I should be happy. It would have been nice to see everyone else have success too, but that doesn't seem to be likely.

I know what you mean to an extent. It doesn't seem real to me yet that I have lost this weight. Right now, it seems like it had been effortless, but I KNOW I put alot of effort into it. I keep thinking my eyes are playing tricks on me when I get on the scale, or when I measure myself.