Congrats NYPhotographer.. just stay consistent, and results will come.

I have food I am looking forward to.. which means if I go off plan, I will not be eating foods I am looking forward to.. like sausage and eggs for breakfast, or lamb chops on Friday night.

I think when doing LC, if it feels restrictive, simply have 2-3 meals which you REALLY look forward to.. sure you may have chicken with onions and peppers, or GB with tomatoes and mushrooms, but every so often, just buy some filet mignon, or lab chops, and spoil yourself.

I LOVE my breakfast..2 Tbsp. butter, 5 pork sausage links, and then when I have some salty fat sizzling in the pan, and the sausage is 75% cooked, I toss in 4 Jumbo eggs.. I can eat that every day.. but some days I have 1.25 lbs. of 73/27 GB, which I am not crazy about, or 4 whole chicken thighs, and on those days, when I feel like I am just putting fuel in my body, I think.. on Friday, I have 5 lamb chops. It could be several trout, with skin on them.. whatever you think of, which keeps you moving forward.

I ate some basic meals when I ate higher carb, and then we had some favorites, like mac & cheese on Friday, which we looked forward to.. why not do the same on LC? Have a couple meals where each item on the menu, makes your toes curl up, and cause you to sigh with pleasure. Cherry-pick your favorites.. on plan. Eating is simply fuel for your body, BUT, it should taste great, and be something you love, often enough, so you don't think.. WHY am I eating this, when weight loss is slower, or non-existent. At least for me, if I don't lose an ounce on Friday morning, I still have lamb chops to eat!!

The days you lose, are easy days, but do what you can to make it through the other days. I have pork steak for tomorrow, and some beef liver for lunch. Sure I hope I lose weight, but knowing I have some delicious meals a day or 2 later, will help me stick to it, if I do not lose, or even gain.

The trick is to ask why you feel deprived, and get rid of that, if you can. If 2 weeks of the same food, has you thinking of quitting, just splurge on yourself, and you won't feel deprived any more. Too many of us get into a rut, eating the same 5-10 meals over and over, or even less. It works physically, but not emotionally. Trying new foods not only mixes up the flavor, but makes this WOE more exciting. You have dozens of options of cheese, meat, fish, fowl, and even fruit/veggies.. we don't have to eat the same foods.

Try planning a special meal 3 days a week.. enjoy deciding what you can try, and it helps you forget you are restricting yourself in other ways. It simply changes your perspective. I have dozens of meal options I plan to try over the next month.. duck eggs, and rabbit.. things I wouldn't normally eat, but they will change my meal flavors, and I will have to look up how to cook these foods, and do I add fats, seasonings etc. I LOVE cooking, so this works for me.. figure out what would make you enjoy the diet, as much as that feeling when you lose a lb. on the scale.. so you have a substitute reason for staying on plan.. for when that fails to happen.

Option 2 for me, is breaking my scale for betraying me, and heading to Taco Bell. I think avoiding option 2 is important.

Warm day for me, no weight loss, but I did a nice walk out to the lake.. 3.6 mile round trip. Ate exactly what I had planned. Game 1 for the Pistons starts soon. Great day!

Good morning! And it is a great morning to be alive! So when I started back on this journey, I weighed 214 lbs. That was August 26th this year. My blood pressure was 150/95 that morning. My blood sugar was 132 mg/dl. Today, I weigh 194 lbs. Well, 194.4 but we will round down. 20 lbs gone in 2 months! My blood pressure this morning is 98/63. My BG is 95 mg/dl. I still have a ways to go weight-wise, but I'm loving my numbers!

I made an image of my report on here of my last 30 days. As you can see, I have not gone in a straight line downward. It's an up and down process for sure. I weigh myself every morning and record it, even when I didn't want to. I'm sure tomorrow, I will either be the same or go up again. But I don't sweat it. I know as long as I stick to the program, it will go down again eventually. I just want to show the new comers, that our weight is not linear. There will be times when your weight may jump back up and not to feel discouraged. I know, hard to not feel that way. But as long as you stick with it, the benefits will be tremendous!