Very well done Zand you really are doing so well. I thought about you this morning and was looking forward to how much weight you would lose this week . You must notice the difference now as it's nearly a stone ! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
OK so I have been to SW to be weighed this morning (just to be weighed, I don't hang around for the meetings)
This week I have lost 2.5 pounds, so that's 3.5 pounds since I started this thread.
I am writing the next bit for myself, as a reminder,as well as for you guys.
I know that many people lose more weight than this at the start of a new diet/lifestyle. I am truly pleased for them. I suspect that these are mainly folks who have gradually put on weight over the years and then been stopped in their tracks by a health issue, be it diabetes, high blood pressure, whatever. It isn't like that for me, I have spent so many years doing so very many diets, that my body has learned to go into 'famine mode'. I do not lose weight easily (I hope Metformin really does change this for me). ( I am also getting my vitamin D levels and my thyroid checked again this afternoon.) To illustrate this I am going to repeat something I put on another thread, apologies if you have read it before, but when I have a 'bad week' and don't lose any weight (or even put some on) I will need to remind myself.
In 2007 my son and I had flu. Really bad flu. We didn't eat anything at all for 5 days, managing only to sip water. For the next 5-6 days we ate around 200-400 calories a day, that's all we could manage. After this we weighed. My son, who didn't have any weight to lose at the start of the illness lost 11.5 pounds. I lost 0.5 pounds. This was a turning point for me and I knew I had to stop cutting down on what I ate and find a different way. Dieting was never going to work if I couldn't lose weight when eating nothing at all.
So the fact that I have lost as much as 2.5 pounds in a week is massive for me. I haven't been calorie counting but I know I have been consuming a lot more than 200-400 calories, so my body is working better now. I need to compare myself with me, not with others. If I do the latter it usually ends with a box of chocolates and a bottle of wine. Not this time.[/QUOT
Well done you, thats really great, I've started losing weight on Metformin, but I also take tablet for thyroid, since I increased to 3 metformin a day last month I lost 6.5 pounds in 3 weeks, last week not much change but lost 1 more pound, so attempting to go up to 4 tablets a day as directed
Had a problem with cramps but figured it was low potassium so sorted that with , banana , baked potatoes
Spare motivation? It's taken me 17 years to summon up this much! OK here's something to motivate you. I am resigned to the fact that when I have lost the weight I will probably need an operation to get rid of all the horrid excess skin because my skin is older now and won't shrink back like it would have when I was younger. I notice you are a lot younger than me ......so please do it now before this becomes a problem for you too.Hi zand. Keep going. ...if you get any spare motivation, please send it my way!
I hear all what you say. If you want an online partner for support and weekly weigh ins. ...im here! Well done xx
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Just typed a really big response and pressed something and lost it all.
Anyway the short version is that one day you will realise that you have discovered the secret of weight loss and then it will be automatic.
You actually are near this point now you just have to look at what you have done already.
Really proud of you. Be motivated now. Use your success to push you forward.
Just think about buying a whole new wardrobe at the end of it all.
I went from 2xl to M. 40 inch waist to 32.
Big smile on my face buying new cloths. Big dent in the bank balance also but hey its only money.
Keep going....we are all rooting for you.
...If/when I reach the plateau stage then I will struggle again - I always do....
Oh no don't say that. Don't even type that. Your brain will hear you thinking it and might believe you. Positivity all the way
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