Weight in day today I am down another 1.4 pounds. Not as much as I thought it would've liked but with my tummy problems this week I'll take any loss. That is a total of 3.6 pounds.
I know its easy to get discouraged over not losing as much as you expected or wanted. You set goals for yourself and when you don't make them its easy to get down on yourself. this can be self sabotage in the making, you set unreachable goals of weight loss and when you don't reach it you go off plan and wallow in your disappointment with a pint of Ben and Jerry's, bag of chips, a bag of Hershey kisses or whatever soothes you in your failure.
In this journey I am here to show you that change is possible and here is the first place to start. In your weekly weigh-ins. Any loss is a reason to be happy, congratulate yourself with a mani, pedi, or buy yourself that video game you been looking at for awhile. Take the food out of the celebrating this is important for permanent weight loss. Look at it this way a what do at weddings, graduation, retirement party, promotion, baby shower, birthday, new years, and Christmas parties. we eat. We are celebrating with food. I'm not saying that these things are bad these are wonderful times with friends and family, what I am saying is that its so ingrained in our heads that a even a weekly weigh-in celebration could throw you off your goal.
On our run today we took Duchess out with us. She did fabulous which is surprising since she is a lazy basset hound. She is a control freak herself, she has to be in the front and will make sure of it the entire time. She now lays at my feet passed out snoring and will probably be that way the rest of the day. She is a funny dog but we love her.
I hope I was able to give you some ideas on beating the disappointments as well and not sabotaging your successes. My saying for today is............. Any loss is great!!!
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