I have been on and off here for a bit now, I have crossed the 9 month point and am approaching my one year mark....

For me it's a wild ride especially at the scales I had another great week and lost 10 lbs but the two week previous I gained 5 lbs total and I looked at my weigh in records as I attend weekly meetings with weigh ins on Saturday and since the beginning of December (5 months) I have lost 33 lbs, that's the good news.

Out of those months i've weighed in 19 times (8 times I gained, 1 was exactly the same, and 10 times I lost)

The reason I decided to post this topic is because if you pay attention to any one weigh in, or set of weigh ins you may get discouraged. Stalls can be disheartening and so can gains. You must stick with it and keep working to do what you're supposed too!!!

The weight will come off but the body acts in funny ways I gain 2, gain 3, and lose 10, I gained 3 lbs over 7 weeks then lost 8, etc etc etc

Now I know some of this is my own doing as i'm not always 100% on point with my nutrition but I also know that some is my body just trying to slow down the weightloss.

My point is don't get caught up on the slow losses, the stalls, and the short term gains, if you do what you're supposed to do often enough it will come off.

I have now lost 124 lbs since the surgery and 324 lbs overall, of course my body and my mind go on weightloss vacation occasionally and I may lose some battles but ultimately I will win the war.

Good luck!

Great advice! And Congratulations!

I am loving that Usedto be... that is a lot of sense... thank you for posting and putting things into perspective. I need to hear this. THANK YOU!! x

Thank you, this is really something to think about.

your welcome, just saying while this is the greatest thing i've ever done for myself that you must set realistic expectations, and there may be times your not doing as well as you'd like but if you focus on trying to do the best in the long run and doing what's right you'll eventually get to where you want to be!

Congrats on your weight loss- you're doing great! I love that you said "my mind and body go on weight loss vacation"- that's funny!