Christi...aka Little miss Texas ( I love that!!)
I am with Nancy's last sentence....DONT LET THE SCALE RULE YOUR LIFE girl!! as hard as that may be sometimes...just LIVE your life...and try not to pay attention to how much you are loosing..cuz let me tell ya..and I dont know if its a little trick my body plays on me..but when I dont pay attention to my scale...and I just let life happen...all of a sudden one day a pair of pants that were tight just a few weeks ago are BAGGY and sagging off my behind!! lol!! thats the wonder of it all!! if you obsess over the scale and how much you are loosing or NOT loosing....it makes time go by much slower!!
Reading your stats...you and I have the same (similar) weight goals...the difference is..I started over a YEAR AGO!! yes..I dropped about 35 pounds in about 8 weeks on medifast when I first started...went from 185 to 155...then I began to play around....nibble...bite..taste a little of this and that...and it became ROUGH waters from there!! but I also started working out with Weights...and that has KEPT ME OFF THE SCALE!! I never even changed my stats since I dont know when..cuz to be honest...I DONT STEP ONE FOOT ON MY SCALE....because those numbers WILL RULE MY DAY!!
we all know that muscle weighs more than fat...so naturally..if your working out..the scale will go UP and your body fat will go DOWN!!
maybe you could do what I did....I found a pair of very tight pants..that I wanted to fit back into again..and tried them on every week....that was my way of measuring my weight loss!! and NOW those pants are too big...they fit comfy!!
I married my high school sweetheart...after Desert Storm...we moved to California, Germany (2 different places) then Ft. Drum NY..he was active duty army......and being an Army wife was probably one of the hardest things I have ever done...for 12 years....it was lonley and FOOD was my comfort!! I ate and ate and ate....and got myself all the way up to 240 pounds!! then I decided enuf was enuf....and at the same time, my husband went to Korea...and Im sure you know how that goes..we were divorced a few years later!! (dosent happen to everyone...but it tests your marraige BIGTIME!! and he met someone over there...) that changed my life....turned it upside down...
I began to walk and watch my food intake..and lost quite a bit of weight on my own....but wasnt happy with myself in a size 14 again....sooooo..I found medifast last February...and began my journey!!
my advice to you my dear: dont be controlled by the scale!! dont use food as a comfort any longer..as loney as times are..and beleive me..I know how much you may be alone without your hubby!! we all tend to get weak around food..and when that happens..play some music..get up and go for a ride...do what it takes...and you will see that scale go down, maybe not as fast as you like...but when your not paying attention...IT WILL drop!! I promise you that!!
okay..enuf babbling from me
HAPPY SHAKIN!! do this...one day at a time!!
Tami