Week 16 – Yay!

Did you have a good week?  I was unsure.  There is something about weigh in day that fills me with terror and the minutes leading up getting on those scales just fills me with a really heavy fat feeling.  My mind starts racing trying to think of anything that may lead to a weight gain or a weight loss!

For me though this week I lost a fabulous 2.5 pounds which does mean that I only have 1.5 pounds to go to hit the 2 stone mark!!!!  I must say that I am really really pleased.

Through out my years of yoyo dieting I have always got to this point and then hit a plateau where the weight loss stopped.

There could be a number of reasons for this and I will look at each in turn.

1. Could I have been eating much the same foods week in week out and my body needed something different to give it a boost?  I think this is true and so I need to keep lots of variety in my diet.
2. 2 stone is quite some weight to lose and as I am feeling great and looking good then it is easy to let naughty things slip into your mouth and if it isn’t shown on the scales the next week it’s easy to think you’ve got away with it.  I suppose then there is the temptation to stopping getting weighed and then before you know it the weight has piled back on.  Not me, not this time!
3. Male attention.  You might laugh at this really.  For a lot of women getting some male attention, being flirted with, being fancied is why you would want to get slim.  For me this is partly true and then when it starts to happen I get scared.  When I was a lot younger I had a nasty experience with a man which happened right after my very first diet where I lost 2 stone!  The event left me feeling completely unworthy and unlovable and then for a long long time every man I attracted didn’t have any respect for me which obviously then contributed to more unworthy feelings etc.  So now I wonder if, even though I have found true love with an absolutely wonderful man, does my subconscious mind keep sabotaging my diets thinking that the history might repeat itself?  Now I recognise this I can work through it and this time I will go on to get rid of ALL the excess weight I want.

So next week I want to report to you that I have lost the much wanted 2 stone and when I do I will also put up some photo’s of me in the trousers I was wearing when I started this weight loss journey!!

Have a great week.

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Tags: Comfort Zone, Plateau, Subconscious, Weight Loss

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