Five weeks ago, I had my last appointment with my nutritionist. She mentioned to me how my weight loss may slow down soon, that I may plateau, and that if I do, it would be okay. That I should accept it and just keep doing what I’m doing. Because I have lost a lot of weight within a short amount of time, and my body needs time to adjust to that new weight. Since that appointment, I have been worried abut plateauing. I still weigh over 80 kg, I am still more than 10 kg overweight. I am not ready to plateau.
And ever since then, my weight loss has really slowed down. I almost feel like my nutritionist jinxed me. In the past five weeks, I have only lost 1.7 kg. It has been going incredibly slowly, and it’s frustrating. I really want to reach my goal of weighing under 80 kg by the end of the year, and until a month ago, I had no doubt that I would. Now I’m not so sure.
I also realize that especially in the last week, I have been struggling with eating well. And even though, except for Monday, I have been sticking to my calorie budget, I haven’t been eating as clean as I used to. I think that part of my increased cravings for chocolate & co. stem from my frustration over not losing. The irony is of course that by eating more candy, I am ensuring that the weight loss will keep going slow.
I have been putting myself under a lot of pressure, and I know that I cannot just throw in the towel just because things aren’t going perfectly right now. I am not giving up. But a decent loss, putting me closer to the 80 kg sometime in the next couple of weeks would really help. 80 kg is not just my next mini-goal, it is also a huge mental obstacle. I haven’t been under 80 kg in years and I really think that once I get under 80 kg, it will be a huge motivation for keeping going.
Do you easily get demotivated when things don’t go well or does it only make you try harder?
**hugs**
I know you want to keep losing weight. I know how much you would love to reach your short term goal of under 80 by the end of the year. I wish there were some guarantee that you would and trust me if there were one, I would deliver that guarantee to you in person.
the fact of the matter is, your nutritionist is right. and another fact is, regardless of what is happening weight wise you can not go back to what you were doing previously (when you were making things tough on yourself). At the end of the day, it’s not only the # on the scale that matters. It’s all the other stuff. It IS how clean you have been eating (so STOP with any junk). It IS your running. It IS how positive and great you are feeling about yourself. It IS how your (smaller) clothes are fitting. So whatever you do, please please please don’t stop now. You don’t need the number to give you the motivation to keep going. You just need YOU.
I really do understand how you feel. I have gone through the turmoil of this for so very long and I could cry at the very thought that anyone I care about could even know a fraction of what I am going through. You are going to get through this Karen. Just keep going. And if the end of the year comes and you are not at that number it’s going to be OK. That number doesn’t define you. YOU define you.
xx
Deine beiden letzten beiträge sprechen moe echt aus der Seele. Nur das ich nicht halb sovmotiviert und fokussiert wie du bin. Mein essverhalten ist im moment echt eine kathastrophe
“I think that part of my increased cravings for chocolate & co. stem from my frustration over not losing. The irony is of course that by eating more candy, I am ensuring that the weight loss will keep going slow.” — This is exactly the stupid circle I’m caught in right now and it SUCKS. I hope you’ll find a way to keep up with your efforts! Looks like your 10k run might be the perfect motivation?