Confessions of a fat kid

Sometimes the hardest advice to follow is your own advice. I have come (and gone on occasion) on the message boards here for the past two years or so offering solid advice and motivation for anyone who needs help shedding the extra pounds, I may not look it at the moment but I know a few things about losing the weight (and unfortunately putting it back on). Weight loss for me has been a focus of my life since I was discharged from the Marines, due to medical reasons I put on a lot of the weight I am carrying to this day.

 What is my point in all of this? Well here it is my point is this over the past year or two of offering up help to those who are sincere about losing the weight I have preached over and over, consistency, consistency, consistency. Along with time and smart choices you can and will lose the weight you so desperately are trying to lose. For those of you who have seen my body space these past two weeks I have lost 1/2 a pound each week. Fearing that I am about to hit a plateau the first time I feverishly looked over my diet, again and again trying to see what I could change when the third week hit.

 Why the third week? Well that is part of the advice I give, if something isn’t working give it 3 weeks before you freak out and change things about your diet even if you gain weight! Sometimes things just take time in your diet and your body has to get used to something. I have no idea why my body thought it would be okay to lose 1/2 a pound these past two weeks but for whatever reason it did and I was fearful of the third week of 1/2 pound losses.

But never fear, even after all of my freaking out and reviewing my diet (note no matter how much I eyeballed it that’s all I did, I did not change one thing about it!!) I jumped on the scale today to check my half week weight (not the best idea for someone starting out but I do it to maintain consistency in what I am doing weekly just seems so long to me). Sunday I weighed in at 187 pounds, today I am a much happier 185.5 pounds. Come Sunday I will probably be somewhere around that same weight (Since I know my body fairly well). Which just goes to show you, sometimes the hardest advice to follow is your own.