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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zand" data-source="post: 522083" data-attributes="member: 85197">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.</blockquote>

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