Current stats and goals

Well, I weigh myself everyday, but I have an "official" weigh in date of Wednesday. Originally my weigh in day was Monday, but after tracking my weight for a while I realized that my weight tends to be the highest on Mondays (probably from misbehaving over the weekend) and the lowest on Fridays (from being good all week) so I decided that Wednesday's weight would probably be the most accurate of the week. Is it true? Who knows, but it made sense to me.

My weight on Wednesday was 177.8, which is up .6 from the previous week. But I'm supposed to start this weekend & I think it's up due to water weight. Or at least that's what I'm hoping. I guess we will see next weigh in. TOM should be over by then. Thankfully for me that's usually only a 2 day thing.

My current goal that I'm working towards is I would love to be 170 by the 4th of July. That gives me about 7 weeks to lose 7 pounds. A pound a week. I haven't been hitting that much, but for some reason I think that this is doable for me.

I've been reading some posts on the 3FC forum where people don't think you should put time frames on goals because it can lead to people giving up. I've joined about 5 challenges now & haven't hit a single goal in the time allotted on the challenge, but I haven't given up, I just hit it a little later.

My first challenge was the Valentine's Day Challenge, which I think I ended up joining two different ones. I think my goal was to hit 180 lbs. A little over 10 pounds lost. Well, it took me until mid-April to get there. Two months longer than I thought, but I didn't give up. I don't think that not meeting a goal will lead to you giving up. Not being motivated enough will make you not give up.

I had 4 weeks in a row where my weight loss was less than half a pound. I was either seeing losses of .2 or .4, but I didn't give up. I knew I was doing what I needed to be doing. I stuck with it and saw a whopping 2.6 pound loss in one week. Of course that was after a 1 pound gain from the week before when it was TOM, but it was still a big loss for me.

So if you want to lose weight, quit making excuses and do it. It's hard. I know. It takes time, a lot of time. But it took me 20 years to put on these extra pounds, so a year to take it off doesn't seem to bad. If I can do this you can too. You're worth it. I know I am.