What I've found over the last few years is that your mind produces thoughts naturally. It's important not to set too much store on what your mind comes up with. It's like it's almost a random thought producer, sort of spitting out thoughts til you find one you attach to. The important thing is to be picky about which thoughts you attach to.

I agree with you that the mental aspects of weight loss are perhaps the most important thing. Back in January, I wouldn't have believed I could lose 3 stone relatively painlessly, but I knew I had to try. Now I am struggling with the idea that I should keep going and lose another 2 stone. My thoughts/mind lies are: you've done enough already, you couldn't really be properly slim, you won't be able to make it etc etc. It's important we recognise these as lies - as you say, the reality is, I don't know til I try.

My brain is definitely my worst enemy. I have ADD and it makes it hard for me to stay focused on eating properly. It is far too easy to get side tracked and almost accidentally end up eating the wrong things.

I'm so glad you posted this. I am now dealing with a mental weight loss block. From 2010-early 2015 I was steadily gaining an unusually large amount of weight. I call it my extra PSTD pounds. I was going through an particular difficult period in my life and had never been that heavy in my 50+years.

As of today, I managed to finally get back to my prior "high" weight and now entering the phase of re-losing the weight I've lost before. During my LCHF WOE I've been able to steadily drop one pound a week. I thought that this is reasonable since this was weight that I shouldn't have had anyway and it never part of my 'normal' weight loss struggle.

Coincidentally, this weekend I found an old WW chart from 2007-2008 where I was starting then, at that same weight I am this morning and at approximately the same time of year. On WW it took me over 16 weeks just to lose 5 pounds. I know that was a completely different WOE, but frankly, I'm scared of what the next few months will bring.

My hope is to lose 5 pounds in 5 weeks and keeping doing what I have been doing. My mind knows that this WOE is so much better for me than what I was doing on WW. I'm not starving or exercising like a manic. I also haven't yo-yo'd on this WOE, but seen steady results without feeling I was "dieting".

My mind is lying to me that these next future loses are going to be harder, and that I won't see the same results I've been experiencing.
Reality is that a pound is a pound, and that there shouldn't be a reason why if I continue what I'm doing now it won't continue to work for the next 5, 10, 15..

My mind is telling me that I'm getting closer to my goal weight (Reality, I'm not that close, I'm still 40 pounds away) so I shouldn't expect to be able to lose weight because I wasn't able to lose it in the past and I just gained back everything I lost before. I feel as though I'm at a mental crossroad. Before, that was just fluff pounds, now this is the battle.
Reality is tomorrow will come and go and I need to seize each new day as I've been doing. Don't be afraid of the future but embrace today.
In reality, I did lose these particular pounds before, so it IS possible. I also didn't have the tools like MFP and this group to support my efforts in the past. Hoping that in this reality ---This time it will be different.

I understand what you mean. When I look in the mirror, my mind still sees the extra 80 plus pounds I was carrying around. I have found that taking a full length photo and comparing it to "before" photo shuts my brain right up.