This is a pretty common theme among other Weight loss bloggers and websites. I googled the topic and got a lot of hits. My weekly goal for weight loss is 2 lbs a week, but mentally I am just working on one pound at a time. 199 lbs *or more* is a huge number but one pound is do-able. Of course I have to do that one pound, 199 times, but I think I can put that thought away and stick in on a shelf somewhere for now.
Now that I have had some success and am reaching milestones I find myself looking ahead past the next pound to the next 100, and I have to put the breaks on that! I know myself. I will get all excited and start calculating how many weeks before I reach goal, and chart what weight I should lose each week, and when I start to slip and am not meeting these numbers I will start to get discouraged. I have totally done this before. So now that I have lost 47 lbs my brain is trying to whip ahead and say "hey that wasn't so hard, in a few more months you can be to goal" I found myself doing that tonight, trying to figure out when I will be under 300 lbs. But you just can't plan for that! Life happens and then Ice cream happens. I am forcing myself to live in the now, and only looking to get rid of that next pound. I just can't handle more.
Now that I have had some success and am reaching milestones I find myself looking ahead past the next pound to the next 100, and I have to put the breaks on that! I know myself. I will get all excited and start calculating how many weeks before I reach goal, and chart what weight I should lose each week, and when I start to slip and am not meeting these numbers I will start to get discouraged. I have totally done this before. So now that I have lost 47 lbs my brain is trying to whip ahead and say "hey that wasn't so hard, in a few more months you can be to goal" I found myself doing that tonight, trying to figure out when I will be under 300 lbs. But you just can't plan for that! Life happens and then Ice cream happens. I am forcing myself to live in the now, and only looking to get rid of that next pound. I just can't handle more.
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