Staying Strong

I believe I am in my 3rd continuous week of healthy eating since I stopped drinking herbalife. I have had 2 weigh in's and so far I lost 9 pounds. 8 in my first week and 1 my second week. But this is the time when things begin to get tough for me. Right around the 3-4 week mark is many times when I give up, get frustrated and return to my old habits of eating bad. This happens almost everytime because I begin to get discouraged by what I see on the scale...Or not see is more like it.

I know that it is completely forbidden to get on the scale midweek, but I have been eating so good and being active that this morning I was excited to see my progress so far for the week. This is where it is so important for me to stay strong and keep on trucking. But when I weighed this morning, I was 2.5 pounds heavier than my last weight in weight. Now, I know weight fluctuates, but after all the good eating I have been doing, and how I have been struggling through the weekends, eating SO MUCH LESS than I have in the past, and to spend 8 hours in 2 days doing strenuous yard work, walking for 20 minutes last night and working so hard to keep healthy, nutritious, fresh food, it is so disappointing to not only see the scale not moving, but to see it going up.

The frustrates me and it makes me feel like just giving up and eating whatever I want. That is something I struggle with anytime I try to lose weight. I would say 85% of the time, the reason I fall off the wagon is because I start to see the scale stop moving after working so hard to eat right and be active.

But this time is going to be different. I am not going to allow this to knock me down! I can't. Even though it feels good somewhere inside to say, "Forget this, I'm eating whatever I want." I know that isn't the right attitude. Because also, I remember that when I made this commitment, it wasn't just to lose weight, it was to get healthy. And even if my scale isn't moving or moving very slowly, I am still working toward better health with all the good foods I am eating.

I won't get on the scale anymore and I will keep pushing ahead this week with all my hard work and my efforts to get healthy, and I will see what the scale says on Saturday morning. And if it doesn't give me the numbers I want to see (All I want is to see them go down, not asking to be 5 or 10 pounds less), then instead of giving up, I will re-evaluate what I am eating and in what portions. Maybe I will just need to make a slight adjustment somewhere to see better results. Falling off the wagon isn't going to get me anywhere but heavier and unhealthy!!

As Albert Einstein so wisely said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results."

If I gain or lose nothing this week, there is no doubt I have to change something up because that will mean something I am doing is not playing favorably to my anticipated results.

It's all good! I am not letting go! I am going to stay strong.....Whatever it takes!!!

I will leave you with 2 quotes today:

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown


Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings