SavedByGrace26356 wrote: »

DebSozo wrote: »

SavedByGrace26356 wrote: »

Remember to drink a lot of water. It helps when you're hungry. When your stomach begins growling I look at it as if it's telling you not to forget to eat and it's probably when it's burning a lot of fat. You've been doing great. One pound is an awesome loss. Congrats!

--except that it came back

I can't get caught up in the excitement of losing and the defeat of gaining the same 4 pounds over and over. This time it has to work. I HAVE to get down below the 4 pound loss mark and keep it under before I start celebrating about any stupid pounds lost. I'm feeling a bit defeated and discouraged today.

Hi Deb: I want to share some personal things about myself that may help you in some way.

Can I be frank and suggest that you stop worrying about how much you lose and just take it one day at a time? Weigh only one time a week on the same day and at the same time. Your body WILL lose weight when you follow this program. It has to. Stress makes you hold onto weight and you're beating yourself up. You're worth more than that.

The reason I'm sharing this with you is because I was exactly like you. Gaining and losing the same weight for years. It became a psychological issue and my mind played games with me. You can stop the vicious cycle by not worrying about the scale. In fact, put it away for a few weeks and don't think about it. That's exactly what I did.

I was a scale junkie and it kept me from losing weight for years. The mental pressure I put on myself was terrible and I didn't realize that it kept me in a prison which I couldn't get out of. I was so focused on my failure that I couldn't move forward. Every day I did battle with myself. It was so tiring and I found no peace in anything I tried to do.

I finally decided to put the scales away and just to follow the program I was on to a 'T' and stop weighing. I knew every night when I got in bed and looked back over my day that I did my best and it gave me strength to do it again the next day.

I read a story once about a man pulling a heavy bag of rocks around with him every day. This bag was filled with all kinds of negative things that filled his mind and his life. He drug this heavy bag up and down hills (representing his life) until he came to the foot of the cross where Jesus was. He layed this bag at the foot of the cross and gave it to Jesus. He just let them go and decided not to pick it up again. He walked away with all of his burdens gone knowing that he gave them to someone who could handle them.

Many years later while still trying to lose weight, that story came into my mind. I put myself in the story and pictured myself carrying my bag of rocks filled with fear, worthlessness, dissapointment, negativity, and many other feelings about myself and my life. I too laid my heavy bag of rocks (burdens) at the foot of the cross just like the man in the story did and I decided never to pick it up again. I learned to respect myself, love myself, and treat myself as if I were my best friend.

This may not be your way but whatever is holding you in this place needs to be set down for you to move forward. Just make a decision not to pick it up again and keep a positive picture of yourself...where you want to go and who you want to be. That is your motivation.

I learned that weight is just a number on a scale. It doesn't define who you are as a person. I had to accept myself as I was and then love myself enough to get healthier. Everyone's weight goes up and down when they are losing and that's why it's important to weigh once a week.

Please don't think about your weight for a while and just follow the program. Don't judge yourself by what others are doing. I promise you will lose weight eventually and you will feel so much better when you let those feelings go.

I hope this helps in some way coming from an former scale junkie.

God Bless,
Linda
(Saved By Grace)

SavedByGrace26356 wrote: »

DebSozo wrote: »

SavedByGrace26356 wrote: »

Remember to drink a lot of water. It helps when you're hungry. When your stomach begins growling I look at it as if it's telling you not to forget to eat and it's probably when it's burning a lot of fat. You've been doing great. One pound is an awesome loss. Congrats!

--except that it came back

I can't get caught up in the excitement of losing and the defeat of gaining the same 4 pounds over and over. This time it has to work. I HAVE to get down below the 4 pound loss mark and keep it under before I start celebrating about any stupid pounds lost. I'm feeling a bit defeated and discouraged today.

Hi Deb: I want to share some personal things about myself that may help you in some way.

Can I be frank and suggest that you stop worrying about how much you lose and just take it one day at a time? Weigh only one time a week on the same day and at the same time. Your body WILL lose weight when you follow this program. It has to. Stress makes you hold onto weight and you're beating yourself up. You're worth more than that.

The reason I'm sharing this with you is because I was exactly like you. Gaining and losing the same weight for years. It became a psychological issue and my mind played games with me. You can stop the vicious cycle by not worrying about the scale. In fact, put it away for a few weeks and don't think about it. That's exactly what I did.

I was a scale junkie and it kept me from losing weight for years. The mental pressure I put on myself was terrible and I didn't realize that it kept me in a prison which I couldn't get out of. I was so focused on my failure that I couldn't move forward. Every day I did battle with myself. It was so tiring and I found no peace in anything I tried to do.

I finally decided to put the scales away and just to follow the program I was on to a 'T' and stop weighing. I knew every night when I got in bed and looked back over my day that I did my best and it gave me strength to do it again the next day.

I read a story once about a man pulling a heavy bag of rocks around with him every day. This bag was filled with all kinds of negative things that filled his mind and his life. He drug this heavy bag up and down hills (representing his life) until he came to the foot of the cross where Jesus was. He layed this bag at the foot of the cross and gave it to Jesus. He just let them go and decided not to pick it up again. He walked away with all of his burdens gone knowing that he gave them to someone who could handle them.

Many years later while still trying to lose weight, that story came into my mind. I put myself in the story and pictured myself carrying my bag of rocks filled with fear, worthlessness, dissapointment, negativity, and many other feelings about myself and my life. I too laid my heavy bag of rocks (burdens) at the foot of the cross just like the man in the story did and I decided never to pick it up again. I learned to respect myself, love myself, and treat myself as if I were my best friend.

This may not be your way but whatever is holding you in this place needs to be set down for you to move forward. Just make a decision not to pick it up again and keep a positive picture of yourself...where you want to go and who you want to be. That is your motivation.

I learned that weight is just a number on a scale. It doesn't define who you are as a person. I had to accept myself as I was and then love myself enough to get healthier. Everyone's weight goes up and down when they are losing and that's why it's important to weigh once a week.

Please don't think about your weight for a while and just follow the program. Don't judge yourself by what others are doing. I promise you will lose weight eventually and you will feel so much better when you let those feelings go.

I hope this helps in some way coming from an former scale junkie.

God Bless,
Linda
(Saved By Grace)

SavedByGrace26356 wrote: »

DebSozo wrote: »

SavedByGrace26356 wrote: »

Remember to drink a lot of water. It helps when you're hungry. When your stomach begins growling I look at it as if it's telling you not to forget to eat and it's probably when it's burning a lot of fat. You've been doing great. One pound is an awesome loss. Congrats!

--except that it came back

I can't get caught up in the excitement of losing and the defeat of gaining the same 4 pounds over and over. This time it has to work. I HAVE to get down below the 4 pound loss mark and keep it under before I start celebrating about any stupid pounds lost. I'm feeling a bit defeated and discouraged today.

Hi Deb: I want to share some personal things about myself that may help you in some way.

Can I be frank and suggest that you stop worrying about how much you lose and just take it one day at a time? Weigh only one time a week on the same day and at the same time. Your body WILL lose weight when you follow this program. It has to. Stress makes you hold onto weight and you're beating yourself up. You're worth more than that.

The reason I'm sharing this with you is because I was exactly like you. Gaining and losing the same weight for years. It became a psychological issue and my mind played games with me. You can stop the vicious cycle by not worrying about the scale. In fact, put it away for a few weeks and don't think about it. That's exactly what I did.

I was a scale junkie and it kept me from losing weight for years. The mental pressure I put on myself was terrible and I didn't realize that it kept me in a prison which I couldn't get out of. I was so focused on my failure that I couldn't move forward. Every day I did battle with myself. It was so tiring and I found no peace in anything I tried to do.

I finally decided to put the scales away and just to follow the program I was on to a 'T' and stop weighing. I knew every night when I got in bed and looked back over my day that I did my best and it gave me strength to do it again the next day.

I read a story once about a man pulling a heavy bag of rocks around with him every day. This bag was filled with all kinds of negative things that filled his mind and his life. He drug this heavy bag up and down hills (representing his life) until he came to the foot of the cross where Jesus was. He layed this bag at the foot of the cross and gave it to Jesus. He just let them go and decided not to pick it up again. He walked away with all of his burdens gone knowing that he gave them to someone who could handle them.

Many years later while still trying to lose weight, that story came into my mind. I put myself in the story and pictured myself carrying my bag of rocks filled with fear, worthlessness, dissapointment, negativity, and many other feelings about myself and my life. I too laid my heavy bag of rocks (burdens) at the foot of the cross just like the man in the story did and I decided never to pick it up again. I learned to respect myself, love myself, and treat myself as if I were my best friend.

This may not be your way but whatever is holding you in this place needs to be set down for you to move forward. Just make a decision not to pick it up again and keep a positive picture of yourself...where you want to go and who you want to be. That is your motivation.

I learned that weight is just a number on a scale. It doesn't define who you are as a person. I had to accept myself as I was and then love myself enough to get healthier. Everyone's weight goes up and down when they are losing and that's why it's important to weigh once a week.

Please don't think about your weight for a while and just follow the program. Don't judge yourself by what others are doing. I promise you will lose weight eventually and you will feel so much better when you let those feelings go.

I hope this helps in some way coming from an former scale junkie.

God Bless,
Linda
(Saved By Grace)

blambo61 wrote: »

Speaking about weighing, I fasted most all last week and didn't see a loss (was 215 week before that), but I think it was obscured due to eating on wed at a lunch office party. Yesterday I weighed myself and was 217! WTH! I fasted about a week and a half and gained two lbs? Well this morning I was 213! So it just goes to show that weight can fluctuate greatly and we retain water etc (I ate a bunch of salty popcorn night before 217 weight). Lesson learned is that any days measurement can be way off and if we stick to the diet we will lose the weight whether we measure or not (the measuring isn't what causes the weight loss right!). So we just need to stick with it and trust it's working and then take a peak on the scale once in awhile as a confirmation.