A little down..

9lbs is awesome. I to have 100lbs to lose. Just keep remind yourself that it took awhile to put that weight on and it will take awhile to take it off. Also in the long run, losing weight slowly means you will more then likely keep it off long term.

Awesome work so far!! Don't be down, losing weight is a process and it takes time. Patience, sweetie!! you can do this

Try to remember that you didn't put the weight on overnight, it's not going to come off overnight. I started Jan 1st and am down 11 lbs. There are days when my scale doesn't budge, and then one day I'll drop 2 lbs. Your period definitely will affect your weight, but that's temporary. Just remember that this is a life-long journey and you have to have patience and keep at it. The worst thing you can do is get defeated and give up. You can do this. We all can do this.

The darn scale can be an enemy at times. We've all been there, when we thought "oh I did good this week" and then BAMM the scale doesn't show it. You want to just throw in the towel and say to heck with it, but don't. It will show later! One pound loss is great and not to mention you've already dropped 9! Anyway it's prolly "Aunt Flow" that's got the weight loss throwed off! So just hang in there and keep up the good work! You've got this!

Just take it one day at a time. I said the same thing about my 30's because my 20's sucked. I've had my bad weeks and good weeks but you learn to love the process. Each week I can feel my body change and my confidence grow. This week I didn't lose or gain. However, I ran a 5k 3 times this week and I just started doing that 2 weeks ago so I'm sure it's just water retention.
You can do this. Don't focus too much on the number, take measurements, and love yourself.

one pound a week is 52 pounds in a year. That is not so shabby. weight loss ebbs and flows just like everything else. Keep up the good work. You are doing great!

Don't work for speed with the losses, just keep it consistent with what you are doing. It seems to be working.

I was where you are a little bit over a year ago - wondering how I let myself get to this point, and needing to lose just over 100 pounds. Don't let the 1 lb loss this week distort how you are feeling about your loss so far! Yes, it may be less than you lost last week, but it's still a loss! A pound here and another pound there add up to big numbers over time!

Like others have already mentioned, it very well could be that TOM is affecting you this week, or it could just be that is all you lost this past week. You will have weeks where you lose more, and there will even be times when you lose less, or, say it isn't so, gain back a little bit. It happens. This is a journey, and you need to figure out how to enjoy it.

In the first 7 months of my journey, I easily lost 70 pounds. In the next 8 months, I only lost 10, and in the last 2 weeks I've lost 5. However, I have lost inches, even when I wasn't losing pounds. I've made incredible gains in my strength training and am doing things I never would have dreamed of even trying when I first started all of this. I run into people who haven't seen me in a while and they don't recognize me at first. All of these things are successes!

In the beginning, when the numbers are all so big, it seems like you will never get there, and that the scale is all that matters. Trust me, as long as you stick with it, even when your motivation seems to be lagging or your feeling discouraged, you will get there! And, hopefully, along the way you learn that those other successes are just as important, or maybe even more important than the number on the scale.

mhook760 wrote: »

Look at it as losing 1lb a hundred times...

I like this one. Think I'll try to use that from now on. I have to lose 1 lb. 54 more times. Seriously, what's 1 pound? I can easily do that.

You say you're "used to losing a lot of weight very quickly." How many times have you done this, just to have to do it again? The fact that your body is reacting differently this time is good -- it means you're doing something that is different from the thing that hasn't worked in the past.

The first few weeks of a new diet mean squat. It's about how you finish, not about how you start. You could crash diet, take your calories down to nothing and probably lose a little bit more at first. NOBODY sticks with that. Spend some time reading the forums on here and you'll realize that. You'll lose a little more now, then hit a wall and gain it all back (plus more). Or, you could eat a reasonable amount of food that allows for a moderate rate of loss and be able to stick with it for the next year, because that's how long it's going to take for you to lose 100 pounds. Personally, I'd rather take the second option.

mhook760 wrote: »

Look at it as losing 1lb a hundred times... a loss is a loss and weight loss does slow down as you go along, sometimes you might see 0.5lb then it's time to start weighing in monthly. Keep in it for the long haul, and 1lb is honestly great, imagine a pound of butter... that just came off you!

Wow, this is incredibly powerful to me! I have more than 100 pounds to lose it certainly seems nearly impossible. But when you put it in the context of losing 1 pound 100 times? I can do that. And so can you!

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

Something seems to be wrong with the math in the OP. You say you started Jan. 2 and posted Jan. 23 -- that's 21 days, or three weeks. You've lost 9 lbs, so that's an average of 3 lbs a week. You say you lost 1 lb this week, and it was your "best week" -- am I misunderstanding that to mean your biggest-loss week? Because the math for an avg of 3 lbs a week with 1 lb being the highest just doesn't work.

I think she means it was her "best week" in terms of sticking to the plan, maybe?