Cubit

Keep up the good work. Be patient. If the stall does not break, do some
research. Atkins has a whole list of things that might be causing a stall.


"Luna" <lunachick@NOSPAMmindspring.com> wrote in message
news:lunachick-98C0CF.11382128032004@news01.east.earthlink.net...
> I don't know what is up with me lately. I've been way too emotional about
> this stall. I go from being really depressed about it to really excited
> about breaking it, and I get really gung-ho about exercising and eating
> less, then I get really angry if I do something like have one bite of a
> croissant, then I get really depressed again. I AM still using Fitday, I
> skipped a couple of days and then used it again yesterday, and even on the
> days I didn't use it I ate about what I'd been eating for the days I was
> using it. So, I know I'm not overeating. I'm going and working out even
> when I don't feel like it, but I have very little enthuisiasm for it any
> more.
>
> It used to be, I'd get weighed and measured every month at Curves, and I
> wouldn't even think about my weight until those monthly weigh-ins. But my
> happiness was not a reflection of the number on the scale. Now I find
> myself weighing at home every day on my cheap, unreliable scale from
> Wal-mart, which is still not going down, and feeling bad about it.
>
> I want to keep working on losing weight, I want to hope for an end to the
> stall, but I wish my emotions weren't so tied up in it.
>
> I have found in the past that when I really want something, the straining,
> yearning, desperate hope for it doesn't make it come any sooner. All it
> does is make the waiting harder. It's like when you want a relationship,
> and you want one so badly that you have this aura of desperation around
> you. I finally woke up one day and had to face the possiblilty that I
> might be single forever. It was scary and sad. But I faced it, I
> visualized my life as a single woman forever, and it wasn't as bad as I'd
> feared. I realized I had friends, family, interests, and enough good
> things about me to keep myself occupied for the rest of my life even if I
> never have a partner. I still wanted a relationship but being single
> wasn't the end of the world anymore. The desperation left, and I became
> more attractive to the opposite sex, and now I'm dating again.
>
> I wonder if I should apply the same sort of thought process to weight
loss.
> Keep limiting carbs and calories, keep exercising, but become at peace
with
> the possibility that I may be this weight forever. Twenty pounds less
> would be better, but this weight isn't the end of the world. I don't have
> to be miserable if the scale doesn't move. I don't know if there's some
> cosmic process at work here beyond simply "calories in, calories out" but
I
> do know that the brain and the body are connected, and changing one often
> changes the other. So maybe if I stop fighting so hard (emotionally, not
> in the practicalities of what I eat and how much I work out) my body will
> start cooperating. People do get over illnesses quicker when they have a
> more positive outlook, could it be that a more positive, peaceful,
> emotionally balanced mental state could help with weight loss as well?
>
> --
> Michelle Levin
> http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick
>
> I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws.