quinnesec

Add me to the group! Although I am still under my goal weight, I had gotten down to 116 lbs. last summer and stayed there until Christmas. Over the holidays, I put on 4 lbs. and it seems like I lose a pound, then it's the Super Bowl. Gain it back. Then I lose a pound and it's Valentines Day... you get the picture. Lose a pound during the week, gain it back on the weekend. Very frustrating. A recent injury has also kept me from my usual activity level so I've even cut my calories back accordingly but still nothing. I know from past dieting that I just have to hang tough and eventually my body will give it up.

So, keep doing what you're doing and don't give up. Frustration is a formidable foe. Keep positive and picture the end result... you'll get there.

RunbikeSki

... ARE RUNNING OUT

OK I feel better, sometimes ya just gotta yell!

...will...hang... on... another... week

almeeker

I just have to ask, are you slipping in to Capt Kirk mode or cartoon Batman?

RunbikeSki

Tee hee,
It's Capt. Kirk, all the way!

Lizzycritter

If it's Capt. Kirk, it should be "Will....hangon...another...........week."

RunbikeSki

How right you are, Lizzy

RunbikeSki

I have a big question for all of you:

So, while the scale hasn't changed much, I have actually reached my size goal of petite size 4. Does this count???

Went shopping today 'cuz I really didn't have any decent pant for work. Pretty much everything I tried on that fit and looked good was a size 4 . I seriously do not remember ever being a size 4.

Last fall when I went back to for a check up with the Diet Doc, I went with the intention of losing 10 lbs. ( I was 138 at the time) He said based on his experience and his knowledge of me, that it was probably not a very good personal goal to expect to get to, and maintain, 128. But he asked if I had a size goal and I said yes: size 4. This, he said, was quite possible if I added some weight/resisitanct training.

So here we are: about 4 weeks into a serious weight training program, 135lbs and at size 4 (BTW I'm 5'4" medium build)

So what do you all think? is 128 just a number???

I reasonalbly happy with my figure. I think my body fat is in the mid20s, but heck, I am 53... what are your thoughts.

Pam

cjohnson728

I think if you're happy where you are, everything else is just a number.

Goals change. I had a goal weight, then it went to a goal body fat percentage, then it started morphing into fitness goals. Now it's goals for my motivational thread (I keep typing that as "threat" by mistake; take that, Sigmund Freud. But I digress). I'm trying to shift from quantitative to qualitative goals, because as much as I like numbers and data, I don't want to live and die by them.

I say, if you can get out of bed each morning and feel happy and comfortable where you are, then the rest of it be damned.

RunbikeSki

Thanks Cassie,
But aren't you up a little late?
Never the less, I appreciate your wisdom.

Pam

Bubbs21

Well said. And much appreciated from a fellow plateauer.