June 24, 2006

  • 100,000 Nails


    I'm freshly back from my third Weight Watcher's meeting.  And I can report that I lost .2 pounds this week.  That's right - POINT 2 pounds.  3.2 ounces.  Not impressive.  In fact so not impressive that I was trying very hard not to be a whining disappointed baby about it.


    Then I had this thought.  My boss is having a house built.  Every week or so she emails photos of the prgress on her house.  Some weeks, it's hard to see the progress, but every week they are nailing more nails into the materials that make up that structure.  Right now, they are a little more than halfway through the process and it still looks nothing like a finished house. 


    In the first weeks of the project some of those photos just looked like dirt.


    I know that I followed the program.  And I also know that my first week of loss (5.2 pounds) is not normal or sustainable.  Even though I would very much like to have sustained that rate of dropping.


    Every day I have dozens of decisions about what I will or won't eat.  What I will or won't do.  How I will or won't feel.  Each of those decisions represents a nail in the house I'm building.  I can either pick it up and drive it in, or I can complain about the fact that my two weeks of nailing doesn't look like a house yet. 


    Sighs

    Reaches for hammer


     

Comments (11)

  • That's right....reach for the hammer....because in order to maintain once you've lost, you're not going to be able to set down the hammer for a minute.  It's about constantly hammering.  But...one nail at a time.  One nail at a time. 

  • you know I am in the process of loosing weight, and the program I use strongly advocates weighing yourself once a day approximately at the same time writing the weight down and forgetting it.  At the end of the week you take the 7 weights divide it and then get your answer for what you lost.  Scales fluxuate, and water bloats, and so on.  Often I will think oh man I didn't loose anything but when I average it out I realize I did.  Its actually pretty cool. 

  • Hang in there...You will do fine....

  • Most progress that is substainable is slow. smile, Judi

  • Hey, I missed the -25 lbs mark by -.2 today, so I'd gladly take it from you!  LOL.  I've lost every week since I started (going on 10 weeks now) and I had a -.2 week and this week was -.6.  It's all about going down instead of up!

  • ryq I'm using the Carbohydrate Addicts Program.  I love it as it enables me to eat with my family and not make different meals. 

  • Let me see if I have this straight - a woman with a hammer. Sounds like stand back to me.

  • You have the tools and you DO know how to use them.
    You are FAR FAR ahead of so many others...
    Hang in there!

  • Then there's always the question, what are you going to do when you get there?

  • True!  I have been meaning to congratulate you on joining WW's (it's what I need to do too!)  You lost a bunch last week, it might be that you gained some of that back in water and truly lost more this week, but it's covered by water... at least it's a loss, right? There is a lot of "blueprint" studying going on while you adapt to this new life still too, eh?  Lots going on... just not all "visible"!  Hang in there and keep hammerin'! (((HUGS!)))

  • Keep on pounding. Mike

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