Woo Hoo on Day 142

Man...didn't post again yesterday!! Sheesh!

I stopped working around 11:00 last night and I thought about it then. But I was just too tired and didn't have anything at all interesting to say. I need to have a back-up plan when that happens. Maybe I should just post my menu for the day. Not very interesting but it could fulfill the committment to post daily.

Anyway, this morning I DO have something to say!!

When I got up this morning, I just knew the bloating and hormone stuff had passed. I felt so much better and I could tangibly tell that I had definitely lost weight.

So I had skipped yesterday's weigh-in, but I decided not to wait until Monday.

I got on the scale and yep...4 more lbs. gone during the last week plus one day!! And during Thanksgiving week, no less!

I simply couldn't be happier. And I did learn something valuable with this mini slow-down. I learned that I was not as mentally prepared for a plateau as I thought I was. When I got on the scale the last couple of times and saw only a 2 lb. loss and a .5 lb. loss respectively, I was really, really bummed. I have been hyper-diligent on this journey and felt like I "deserved" better results.

But the truth is, I KNOW that I shouldn't let the scale determine my attitude. The hyper-diligence is for my health, regardless of what the scale says. I have always approached this with a life and death attitude. And, for me, this type of eating is for life, not some temporary thing I'm doing to get the weight off. Yes...at some point I'll be able to find a higher calorie level for maintaining the loss, but I'll never be going back to junk food, or to the unhealthy habits of old.

So as long as I've been diligent and haven't had a melt-down, what the scale says on any given week should not bring me down mentally. But it did, and I have work on that.

Anyway, 62 lbs. in the rearview mirror, never to be seen again! Woo hoo!!

Hope you all have an amazing Friday, and yes...TGIF!!

God bless...