I’m now on week 4 of my diet and it’s going rather well – even if I do say so myself. I’m now 17 lb lighter than when I started. That’s without depriving myself of food, or even doing any exercise! The program is working for me. I will get to the exercise in the next few weeks, really I will – I’m even motivated to do this because I’ve seen such terrible photos of people who’ve lost a lot of weight and then had all this saggy redundant skin to carry around! But for now, my eating habits are changing and I’m quite happy with progress to date.
There’s one question in my mind though. I step on the scales, I weigh 17 pounds less than I did, and then I look in the mirror and I look the same. What’s missing? What weighed 17 pounds that could be taken away and my not miss it? Someone commented that they pull their belt in one notch tighter and that helps them to see weight loss. Well my clothes are usually elasticated because of my strange shape – I never actually lost my waist (it did get bigger but it’s still there) and so with hips that aren’t in proportion with waist size, elasticated is the way to go – this means that I don’t wear belts or anything of that nature.
So returning to the question, it’s a bit of a puzzle. My clothes don’t feel as if they’re hanging on me. They don’t feel as if they fit any better. I certainly don’t look – or feel for that matter- any thinner. But I must be thinner – mustn’t I? In an earlier blog I discussed the fact that on a diet I usually lost my sense of humor and toyed with the idea of how much one of those weighed, but as yet my sense of humor is still in place or I could say with conviction that my sense of humor actually weighed 17 pounds! But that’s not the answer either.
Hopefully, if my weight loss continues, I will start [and] see some kind of physical evidence that I’ve lost pounds soon. Despite all of my motivation and determination, it is a little discouraging not to be feeling any thinner!
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Check out my other blog entries here at families.com – you’ll find me in the Disney Blog! and my weight loss progress is being blogged here at families.com in Momma’s on a Diet!