Do you have multiple sizes in your closet. Do you have stacks of clothes in different sizes because your weight fluctuates from one month to the next. I was trying on my warm weather clothes to get ready for Spring Break. I went through my clothes and realized that I had shorts in size 6, 8, 10, 12 & 14. As I thought about it I realized that I wore sizes 8, 10, 12 last spring and summer alone. I had shorts with the tags still on them. I outgrew the size before I got around to wearing them. The year before I went through all the sizes during one year.
I have always been able to lose weight and lose it pretty quickly. I think that may be the problem. When I lose it that quickly I don't allow my body to adapt to changes. I lose it and get to the weight I think I want and then I just go right back to my old eating habits.
My doctor has told me that he does not want me to lose more than 2-3 pounds per month. He wants me to do that consistently until I reach my target weight. It will take time to reach my target. I won't be able to do it over one summer as I have in the past. I don't really like that, because it just seems like it will take forever to get down to a reasonable size. If he is right, and by following his guidelines, I can get to my target weight and stay for the rest of my life, then that would be wonderful.
If I lose 1/2 pound a week and I do that consistently it would take me 72 weeks to get to the weight I would like to be. It would take almost a year and a half. One of the pluses with that is that in six months I would be down 13 pounds lighter than I am now. And at each week along the time frame I would be losing and allowing my body to adjust to the new habits and changes.
If this is really the key to losing weight and keeping it off and in a year and a half I could be reaching my ideal weight and maintaining it for life, is that worth waiting for. I believe it is. I have to have a total new mindset. The one I have used for years is not working for me. It is just allowing me to yo-yo my weight over and over again. Is this what I want to do forever? It just causes my body fat to increase.
No, I have decided this time it is going to be forever. The year I turned 50, I wore a size four for about six months and then I slowly went back through the sizes. I believe that is the longest I have maintained a lower weight in several years. I exercised regularly for 5 days a week for a long period of time. I lost a total of about 50 pounds, I was at my highest weight ever when I started that time. I lost the 50 pounds in a five month time frame. Then it took me about the same time frame to put most of it back on when I quit eating healthy. This time will be different. This is a life time change to becoming a healthy person. Why rush it?
How many sizes do you have in your closet? Leave a comment and tell me about your clothes and how many different sizes you have worn in the last year or so.
I had just gotten out of the shower, my hair wasn't done and no makeup, so I had to cut my head off.
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