Minus 50 and feeling discouraged.

Most people call this a plateau. Don't quit you will just be mad at yourself if you do. Can't see your diary but try some new healthy food or eat your largest meal at breakfast. Change up your exercise.

I just started, but I know when my mom did Weight Watchers (years ago) she hit a plateau and was so depressed that she didn't loose anything for weeks. Sometimes it happens, but don't give up. Change up your routine just a little. If going to the gym, hit different equipment. Main thing, don't feel like you can't do this. Best of luck

Go buy yourself a new outfit. If you still have some of your clothes from 50 pounds ago, lay them next to the new ones. Better yet, put the "fat" clothes on. Then put the new ones on. Take a really good look at the new you. Retraining what you see yourself as in the mirror is the hardest part, imho.

Definitely. I have lost 74 and I just hit a year. I lost weight 10 years ago with WW and lost 93 pounds in less than a year... granted, I was 10 years younger then!!!!!!!! But, the thing here is that I'm happier because I'm eating REAL food. I'm not eating a lot of processed, frozen foods, which was a staple for me because the points were printed right on the carton. Now I follow calories, I know how many calories I need to burn to eat what I want to eat... and if I don't burn everything and I over eat one day, I know that I won't worry.

Mix things up a bit. Take 3 days off of "watching" what you eat. Allow yourself to eat something every day that you wouldn't have allowed for before... just log it all. Exercise a bit more or don't exercise at all... up to you, but don't stress over it.

You need to break out of the "blahs" and the only way to do that is to spur on a change of feeling inside of you... whatever works... try it and make it work!

EDIT: Oh yeah, I still have at least 50, if not 60-70 pounds to go before I hit "normal" weight... so I feel you on the "still feel fat" part. But you look great, I know.!

This is something that happens to majority of us from time to time. Just try to stay focus. Push yourself at the moments when you feel the weakest. If you feel yourself being lazy call yourself on it! Kick your own azz! I'm serious. Its easy to give in to yourself. Don't settle for easy. Go for the challenge!

I am exactly where you are. I have lost about 40 lbs in all and still feel fat and just kinda lost my motivation. I am still tracking and weighing regularly but not eating very healthy and not working out as much as I had been. Something that has kinda motivated me is that I tried on some smaller pants than I have been wearing and they fit. They are a little snug but I can get them up and zipped so I think my new goal is to get them fitting comfortably in a month. I suggest trying something like that as opposed to making a weight goal. Just a thought...

When I originally started trying to lose weight six years ago, I lost 60 lbs. but still felt like if I could just lose another 5 or 10 lbs., then I'd be satisfied. In all reality, I looked and felt good, but I got discouraged and ended up gaining back 10 lbs, and then another 10, and then another 10. Last fall, I started getting back on track, and it was a challenge to even get to where I am now, but I'm not worrying about it like I was then, because I know that I'm still look and feel much better than when I originally started out. Even if I'm not at my goal right now, I know that it's the day-to-day that will get me there. I wish I wouldn't have been so worried about hitting my (slightly unrealistic) goal when I first lost the weight and had focused on being happy at what I'd accomplished and working to maintain it.

So hang in there. Keep taking it one day at a time, and eventually, you'll break through that plateau and the weight will start coming off again. There are a lot of tips on how to get past the plateau stage, but what works for me is changing things up. I switch up my workouts, maybe take a few days off, change up my eating patterns a little - anything to get my body (and mind) out of the rut. Plus, it kind of renews my drive to keep going.

Good luck, and - most of all - congratulations! 50 is a great number to have achieved, and you should be really proud of all the hard work you did to get yourself there!

I have lost over 50, and i FEEL fatter now than i was when I started.
Thats because I am much more critical of myself now than i was in the beginning.

Every little bit of fat left bothers me, when there was lots more fat it was easier to shrug off.............but now when there is so little left its that much more annoying that it exists.........

my $.02

Dr. Pam Peek, the weight loss doctor, says that it takes the mind a year to adjust to every 25 lbs lost. So it's no surprise that you still see yourself as fat. You need to be patient and loving with yourself and take the time to get to know your body all over again. Go to the store and try on lots of clothes. See what size you really are. Try on all sorts of stuff, especially stuff you would normally never wear! Take mirror pics of yourself in the clothes so you can check it out later. (Don't buy anything unless you really love it, LOL.) Look at yourself in the mirror naked from every angle. Take pics of yourself in a bathing suit. Really look at yourself and check out the situation a whole bunch of times. I used to wear a size 22 back in 2003. Today for the first time, I put on a size 4 skirt at LOFT. I have only just begun to understand that now, I am small. It has taken me a really long time to see that this is real. So I do understand what's happening to you. It takes a long time to adjust to weight loss mentally!

In my opinion, the mental/emotional part of weight loss is way more challenging than the physical part. So be gentle with yourself and give yourself the time to work through these changes.

I was just telling a friend of mine a few days ago about a "rut" I went through mentally a few weeks ago. Even though I has lost 31 lbs in 3.5 months I was just feeling...blah. Can't really explain it. It was about a 2 week feeling....I ate more than I should have. I couldn't see the new me in the mirror. I had feelings of giving up. Not sure I lost anything those 2 weeks. Then I just literally had to snap myself out of it. I made myself work out a bit more and stick to my diet better the next week and saw great results on the scale that week and felt better. I ran a 5k race the last 2 weekends...I got a medal in the first one and my 9yr old daughter got a medal in the last one. My mood is much better now and am ready to tackle these last 20 lbs....I honestly think that us women have hormonal things that go on that are beyond our understanding. lol Also...I read on here where someone was happy to feel their collar bones...I had never really though about mine...so I felt and they were there
Hang in there! You are AMAZING!!! and you are worthy of you not giving up on yourself :flowerforyou: