I am so close to goal for the first time in my life...yet i've started eating horribly! Almost as if i'm sabatoging myself, or perhaps have just gotten too comfortable with my current weight. Bleh! What do you do when you want to kick yourself back into gear?

I am so close to goal for the first time in my life...yet i've started eating horribly! Almost as if i'm sabatoging myself, or perhaps have just gotten too comfortable with my current weight. Bleh! What do you do when you want to kick yourself back into gear?

Hey Malice!

First you forgive yourself and go ahead and acknowledge the uncomfortableness of actually being in the new life you have been dreaming about. I remember a friend years back who with terrific effort dropped 35 or 40 lbs and was totally unprepared for getting a lot of interested male attention. She had worn that fat as an armour and protection against people getting too close. When she got down to the desired weight, there was a period of time where she had to come to grips with the new her and work through her fear of having the success she so deeply desired.

Another thing to consider is that if you make it to goal weight, the game is over. No more big end result that all of your energy goes toward accomplishing. That sounds to me like time to get a new BIG GOAL in your life. This time it won't be weight that is the challenge -- it will be the new thing. How can you step out into life? What's the thing you want to be or do, but you've always said, "I can't do that because I am fat and.......?"

Keep looking and it's OK to be uncomfortable -- just remember that you have learned other things to do with big emotions besides eat. You'll get back on track pretty soon.

Best wishes,

Jo Ann

Me too lately. Although I think its just my body telling me it needs a chance to catch up. Its like I lose a bit and then eat more and stay where I am for a while and all of a sudden it keeps going again.