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We sometimes worried so much about the scale numbers and stalls but have you ever compare your starting sizes clothes with your current ones? This is progress :) Real progress and the scale numbers mean NOTHING :)

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Yeah.. that's something... I sleep in a tee-shirt was used to fit me perfectly... now it looks like a dress!!! Thanks for the reminder!!

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The new ones look so tiny!! Yay for NSV's

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Yeah.. that's something... I sleep in a tee-shirt was used to fit me perfectly... now it looks like a dress!!! Thanks for the reminder!!

And those are "little" things that motivate us to KEEP pushing and going forward. I said "little" but these things are BIG :) Bigger than the scale numbers

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Thanks for posting. I'm only 2 1/2 weeks out after my surgery, but I haven't lost anything in the last 4 or 5 days! I was starting to get depressed and feel like I was doing something wrong, but when I think about it...my clothes are so big on me then when I first started!! This was a good reminder!

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I needed this posting! I am 6 months out and have stalled for the past 3 weeks. I have lost 112 pounds and have a good 100 more to go. People that I work with keep saying that I am melting away, but I dont see it. I have a mental block that if I dont see the scale moving, I dont feel like I am moving. I know that it is not true. I finally decided to purchase new pants. My others are falling off. I recently went to a Cincinnati Reds ballgame and spent most of my time pulling up my jeans.

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I needed this posting! I am 6 months out and have stalled for the past 3 weeks. I have lost 112 pounds and have a good 100 more to go. People that I work with keep saying that I am melting away, but I dont see it. I have a mental block that if I dont see the scale moving, I dont feel like I am moving. I know that it is not true. I finally decided to purchase new pants. My others are falling off. I recently went to a Cincinnati Reds ballgame and spent most of my time pulling up my jeans.

Hey I understand you perfectly, we don't see our progress most of the time :( yeah look for your old clothes are compared them,you will be amazed by doing this. 112 lbs is a LOT congrats!!! This is not an easy journey and it requires for sure a lifestyle change to be more successful :) You are doing more than awesome at 6 months out

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Yes!!! Great post! :) The scale does not define any one of us itself. There are so many little bits of fun ways to measure our success. I do have a photo like this somewhere in my albums on this website... :)

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yeah that is awesome! i would be happy to lose more inches than pounds if it meant smaller clothes :-) i can tell by the way i am losing i am going to be "Mariyln" shaped and thats ok with me.

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Now this is wht=at I am talking about.. and it has only just occured to me that the number on the scale, although useful, isn't the only way to measure success.... nice image!

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LOVE THIS!!!

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So I should get over the fact that I cant break my 100 lbs lost for going on 3 weeks now (cant get past 98lbs).

Thanks! I so needed that.

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