Hi All!
Thank you very very much to everyone weighing in this week. To those that had some great losses, congratulations on your efforts and their evidence. Keep up the great work and continue to be an example to those around you in your family, community and here online.
This week's post is dedicated to everyone else: Gaining, struggling or maintaining when they'd rather be losing weight.
My sincerest wish is that even if you are feeling frustrated with your progress or your adherence level or your rate of weight loss that you don't let these thoughts lead you to make choices that will take you even further away from your goals.
This is a good time to think about what brought you here and consider a few things. What are your exact goals? Have you made progress? Are you be better off in any way since eating an MWL style diet? Also ask yourself what expectations haven't been met? Are those expectations realistic? Is there anything that you could do differently to help meet them? Exactly how closely are you following the
dietary guidelines? List out any deviations. What about the
other lifestyle recommendations, are you following them? Is coming here to weigh in making you unhappy? Is it because you could be following the program more closely? Do you think the people in the group will think less of you if you don't lose any weight, or even gain some? Do you feel badly for not following the program as well as you perceive others to be following it?
When the scale is presenting you with failure feedback it is understandable to be unhappy about it. It is also understandable to want to avoid future failure feedback.
Please consider just digging in and continuing with your current path while you sort through the details. You will hopefully find that the weary frustration will pass and a new budding motivation will blossom. This cycle is going to occur over and over again while trying to lose weight. The hope is to not lose too much ground during the weary frustration phase so that you can make fresh progress with each period of motivation.
A surfer knows that they've got to be in the water in order for a chance to catch a big wave and often they've got to paddle back and forth a few times before getting a good ride.
Hang-ten this week everyone! Find your wave. XO (See you in the October thread!!)
Amy
PS. Each of us may have a different rate-of and path-to progress. There is an optimal way, but even if you don't take that route you can still get where you want to go if you just keep trying...even when it feels uncomfortable.
PPS. Here's a webinar from 2016 from Dr. Lim called
The Secret to Weight Loss. (We're lucky enough to be in on the secret already, but he gives a great summary in his refreshingly enthusiastic way
)
Here are the results for the fourth week in September:Next Weigh-In is on Friday, October 5th, 2018Total group loss reported in 2018: 456.71 pounds
September 2018 Weight Loss Group :: Monthly Weigh-In Results
Total group loss in January 2018: 54.7 pounds
Total group loss in February 2018: 49.3 pounds
Total group loss in March 2018: 52.5 pounds
Total group loss in April 2018: 26.9 pounds
Total group loss in May 2018: 50.8 pounds
Total group loss in June 2018: 54.3 pounds
Total group loss in July 2018: 50.3 pounds
Total group loss in August 2018: 73.85 pounds
Total group loss in September 2018: 44.06 poundsWeek ending 09/28/2018: 17 participants reported a total loss of 7.6 pounds
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Squealcat - 3.4
Medamoso - 1.0
Idgie - 4.2
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Total gains: 8.6
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Yomom - 0.0
Choufleur - 0.0
GlennR - 0.5
Moonlight - 2.0
Mark Cooper - 0.2
OOnaOwl - 0.0
Belcimo - 7.0
VegSeekingFit - 0.8
Rosey - 1.9
Marge_tn - 0.0
Svenja - 2.0
Moonspirit - 0.6
Lyndzie - 0.0
Amandamechele - 1.2
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Total losses: 16.2
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Total group loss in September 2018: 44.06 pounds
Week ending 09/28/2018: 17 participants reported a total loss of 7.6 pounds
Week ending 09/21/2018: 14 participants reported a total loss of 16.2 pounds
Week ending 09/14/2018: 13 participants reported a total loss of 9.8 pounds
Week ending 09/07/2018: 13 participants reported a total loss of 10.46 pounds
Some of my meals this week: (There was a birthday in my house and my daughter made a delicious banana bread from the Happy Herbivore Cookbook - not MWL but regular program adherent in the feast category - the picture is on my flickr account, but I won't post it here)