I got a Bravo! star this week!! At the meetings, they like to celebrate not only weight losses, but good behavior changes/exciting things you share. At some meetings, only the leader will give them out, but at mine she likes all the people in the class to give them to each other, too. So this week we were talking about Negative Talk. Everyone does it - we are always harder on ourselves. We beat up on ourselves for little things, we feel guilty for a single bad choice, and then we let the whole day/week go to waste. We started talking about things that we do/ways to avoid or fix our negative talk. Some people said that they try to be more conscious of it and talk to themselves the way their best friends would talk to them. One girl said that she started writing down every time she said something negative about herself.
Ironically, I had just started trying to consciously change my attitude around my weight loss. I told them that I had started to choose my attitude. I had a good day on Monday (not that the other days were bad) and I walked into the center feeling really good. I started to get that nervous feeling about the weigh-in because while I watched what I ate and made sure that I still got a work-out in while I was at home, I didn't really track. Just before I stepped onto the scale I said to myself, "you know what? you came in here feeling really good and no matter what that scale says, you should still feel really good." And I did! I was up a little bit, but I stepped off the scale still smiling. It was less than a pound and frankly could've been attributed to several things. It could have been a difference in the scales from the meeting at home and this center, it could have been because I ate lunch at 2:30 instead of my normal noon, it could've been water weight, or any number of other uncontrollable factors. Regardless, I've still lost almost 20 pounds since January! I have a lot to feel good about, and I wasn't going to let that tiny setback affect my mood. I had another small moment where I considered not allowing myself to go to the store to buy a new pair of pants (I had a coupon!) since I had gained, but then I told myself I was being stupid. Why would I deny myself buying a pair of pants, when the ones that I had on were getting quite baggy in the legs, because of less than a pound?
The others in the meeting were so proud of me and loved my idea of CHOOSING my attitude. There are so many things in life that we tend to get bummed about because WE ALLOW IT. I've started trying this in my life outside of my weight loss, too. When someone says something annoying or bothersome, I try to just ignore it, change the subject, or be extra sweet in return. It's made my week a lot more enjoyable!
Initial weight: 257.2
Week 9: +0.8
Total weight loss: -18.2 lbs
Current weight: 239
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