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Don't think badly about a weight loss of one pound... It is something to celebrate... look at a packet of butter or lard that weighs a pound if you are not inclined to feel that way... I have been to weight loss groups where the leader went to a butcher's shop and got a pound of animal fat in a plastic bag... everyone passed it around and commented about how big it was and how horrible it was...
If you string enough weeks with a one pound loss together you will get where you want to be...
We would all like to see a bigger loss than that... Sometimes we get it if we do everything right and nothing like TOM hits us... It makes sense to analyse what we have done to see if we could have got more... Sometimes counting the sodium content of the food we eat can identify the culprit... Sometimes we find that we should be drinking more water... Maybe we have ignored some of our calories if we eat anything mindlessly... Sometimes we look at our calorie balance and we are not doing enough exercise...
For myself - I am apt to eat sugar free sweets without being mindful... Each low calorie - but they add up...
When I was in my main project a few years back I spent 15 months losing the last 20 pounds to get to goal... My weight went up and down within that... I had dropped a heck of a lot of weight and was not generally counting my sodium... I felt that the sodium content of my food would be fine because it had been when ever I had done a spot check... I didnt think that I had changed things that much...
I counted my sodium and was shocked... A couple of things had crept in and I had never questioned that they would be ok... My Slimming World group had been raving about a Slimming World approved butcher's shop which sold sausages and burgers which had been approved as low calorie and low fat... I had been enjoying them but had no idea of the sodium content... Also - I had been making soup and suddenly realised that stock cubes and pastes which I had been using (which had been suggested by Weight Watchers and Slimming World recipes) were all really high sodium... I stopped making soup stock using these products and started boiling clean vegetable peal for soup stock...
I dropped something like 12 pounds to get to goal in about five weeks... It transpired that I had lost most of that fat already - but was clearly having so much sodium that I was retaining so much water that it was keeping me from goal...
The weekly official weighing from my Slimming World group when I got to goal is in my album... You can see how my weight kept wiggling about in those 12 pounds above goal and suddenly plummeted when I realised about the sodium...
Never ignore the evil of water retention... It can really mask your weight loss...
If you string enough weeks with a one pound loss together you will get where you want to be...
We would all like to see a bigger loss than that... Sometimes we get it if we do everything right and nothing like TOM hits us... It makes sense to analyse what we have done to see if we could have got more... Sometimes counting the sodium content of the food we eat can identify the culprit... Sometimes we find that we should be drinking more water... Maybe we have ignored some of our calories if we eat anything mindlessly... Sometimes we look at our calorie balance and we are not doing enough exercise...
For myself - I am apt to eat sugar free sweets without being mindful... Each low calorie - but they add up...
When I was in my main project a few years back I spent 15 months losing the last 20 pounds to get to goal... My weight went up and down within that... I had dropped a heck of a lot of weight and was not generally counting my sodium... I felt that the sodium content of my food would be fine because it had been when ever I had done a spot check... I didnt think that I had changed things that much...
I counted my sodium and was shocked... A couple of things had crept in and I had never questioned that they would be ok... My Slimming World group had been raving about a Slimming World approved butcher's shop which sold sausages and burgers which had been approved as low calorie and low fat... I had been enjoying them but had no idea of the sodium content... Also - I had been making soup and suddenly realised that stock cubes and pastes which I had been using (which had been suggested by Weight Watchers and Slimming World recipes) were all really high sodium... I stopped making soup stock using these products and started boiling clean vegetable peal for soup stock...
I dropped something like 12 pounds to get to goal in about five weeks... It transpired that I had lost most of that fat already - but was clearly having so much sodium that I was retaining so much water that it was keeping me from goal...
The weekly official weighing from my Slimming World group when I got to goal is in my album... You can see how my weight kept wiggling about in those 12 pounds above goal and suddenly plummeted when I realised about the sodium...
Never ignore the evil of water retention... It can really mask your weight loss...
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LOL it looks like Steve is too 
