Hmmm, what is the P word?
It is PATIENCE!!!
pa·tience
noun
1.
the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
2.
an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner.
3.
quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence: to work with patience.
Aaaaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh PATIENCE!!! Something I don’t have much of.
I have found out through life how important patience is. Haven’t perfected my patience, Far from it, but am working on it.
Now, I must admit, my patience is being sorely tested. Grrr. I am following program to a T and am proud of myself! (wow, now that is something for me to even say I am proud of myself, another victory for me) So I guess I assumed the weight would just melt away. I mean, I read about people literally melting on this blog and heard it in my refresher I went to.
Well, what a surprise to me, to find out, I am NOT melting. My fat is stubborn as it has been on this body for so long it doesn’t want to move out. My fat loves me and wants me to let it live here in this body. My fat loves the way I used to eat and the way I hate to move. My fat is getting even with me for even thinking of evicting it out of my body.
Who would have thought…
So, from everything I have read on here and remembering Julie’s words, I must be patient. I am the type of person, I want it yesterday. Yes I know I didn’t gain all this over night, but let me tell you, I can put on 10 pounds in just one meal, I have done it in the past, nothing I am proud of, but I can pack it on quick.
I must re-install into my thinking the positives to smack my fat cells into leaving:
I have NO DESIRE whatsoever to go back to my old eating habits! Nope, none! (take that fat cells!) and I will not go back to those horrid eating habits (take that again fat cells!) I will get to my goal size no matter how long it takes me (smacked you again fat cells) and I will make this fat LEAVE!
So I guess all this boils down to is I MUST BE PATIENT and let the program work!
(grrr, I really do want it yesterday! LOL)
Relax...it will happen. It took me a while, but it's worth it. The slower the better is what I told myself.
ReplyDeleteHi Linda-I went from a size 16 to 12 in 4months. I'm hoping to be asixe10 by the end of May. It has slowed down, but I love the change in my eating that it doesn't matter. I have increased the amount of exercise so I hope that helps. Make sure your eating enough greens with the meats, that makes a difference.
DeleteThanks Barb! I am so glad to hear that. I have heard the slower you lose the less chances there are of putting it back on. Another positive I need to keep telling myself! Thank you for posting! Are you at your 'goal size'? How long did it take?
ReplyDeleteHi Linda - April here - what a great post. You and I sound like we were separated a birth. I too am sticking to the program but don't feel like I'm melting either. As I've stated prevously, I had initial weight loss (I'm sure), but then seemed to just stop. I can't really measure my success by sizes because (I know this probably sounds strange) I was wearing the same clothes over the span of a 50# weight gain. Now, obviously, they were looser at the low endehigh end, but I was never one who would lose a size for every 10# lost (as they used to say at Weight Watchers). From reading these blogs, I know you've had great success. As I stated the other day, we are our own worst critics. I'm sure anyone who knows you would say youdone marvelously. So you (and I and anyone ese who's feeling less than estatic at the way we are progressing) need to stop that stinking thinking right now. It will happen (it has to if we stay the course). Congrats on everything to date and much success going forward.
ReplyDeleteApril again - sorry about the previous posting errors. I no longer seem to be able to edit. Will have to be more careful typing the first time. Meant to say clothes were tighter at the high end and looser at the low end of the 50# gain and that you have done a great job. Now if I could just figure out this editing problem...
ReplyDeleteHi April! Are you my long lost twin!!!! LOL!! Somedays while growing up I thought I was adopted as I was the only short dark Italian looking sibling in my family, as my siblings were all taller than me, blondes and thin.
ReplyDeleteI understand the clothes thing. I still have some sizes that I keep wearing because they just don't make sizes uniform.
I need to be thankful for where I am today. I need to be thankful that the food noise is gone! I need to be thankful that I am not gaining, goodness I can't even imagine where I would be today if I didn't go to Julie's classes. I need to be thankful that I find this way of eating so easy!
I LOVE your statement - We need to stop that stinking thinking right now!!!!
I am sure the losses will catch up to us eventually. I can't imagine eating this way and not loosing for the rest of my life. Again Patience comes into the picture.
I never lost a size for every 10 pounds! I wish...
Congrats to you on all your successes to this point and we continue on.
I hope to meet most of you someday!!! What fun that would be!!!
April, did you see my post about subscribing to each main topic post? Sure makes life easier to keep track of people's responses!
April here - Yes Linda - I did see your post about subscribing. I do get emails, but only when someone does a new post. I have to keep checking back to see if there are any new comments. I'm a dinosaur as I have previously stated; and, although I was a computer programmer for 10 years, it was way way back when the computers took up an entire room and you had to write code and use punch cards and reel to reel tapes -- so these newfangled contraptions sometimes bogle my mind. But, I digress... I sometimes think it would be nice to get together and meet our fellow bloggers also. Let's see - so now we need to organize a clothes swap, form a group to get a deal on free range poultry and grass fed beef (I know I can't afford that) and now have get togethers. We are going to be quite busy. What do you think???
ReplyDeleteApril, when y ou are writting a new comment, before you hit the publish button to make it show up on the blog, look under the box you are typing in. you see the publish button and preview button and the words comment as: and then your name or whatever you are signed in as. then the words sign out. to the right of those words is the word subscribe or maybe subscribe by email. click on that. Then you will get emails whenever someone comments on a main post. If you do that, you won't have to scroll through and re-check each main post anymore. Let me know if you figured it out.
ReplyDeleteI am excited to announce that patience does pay off!! I am getting into size 16's as of this weekend!!!! OH YEAH!!!!!! Naturally not all 16's fit as not all 18's fit and not even all 20's fit, but I wore a 16 skirt to church and it fit and the jean skirt I have on now is a 16 and it fits!!!!
ReplyDeleteOH YES!!! Patience Patience and more Patience!!!!! It will happen.
If I look back, after my initial loss at the beginning, I seem to be loosing 1 size every 2 months. I'll take it!!!
Look out 14's here I come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is wonderful Linda!!! happy dance, happy dance, happy dance:)
DeleteApril here - How absolutely wonderful Linda. Keep up the good work. I'm still waiting. The only thing I'm using as a tool to judge if I succeeding or not is my waist measurement (since we discussed not knowing real sizes previously). I did lose 6" off my waist (but that was initially and nothing since). I have noooooooo patience, but I will try to follow your lead and gain (no pun intended) a little. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletewhere is everyone?????
ReplyDeletePatience is key. And good grief, most days I have zero! But I wanted to share...
ReplyDeleteI started july 18. Went off for two months from November to January. January 18 was my refresher. I did awesome from that refresher back on track, etc. My aunt passed away, and less than four weeks later my grandmother, and I celebrated my birthday. All three times I went off the diet-for two days max. And each time-I went right back, without needing a refresher(unlike back at the holidays!). After my aunt died at the end of February, I was down another size by the time my grandmother passed away.
When I originally started, my goal was 10-12 and 50 lbs. When I went off at the holidays I was a 12-and thrilled! When I went back to my refresher, I wanted to be an 8. That was my *ultimate* goal. I continued on the diet. I may have had croutons with my salad, or a roll, but I went right back. I still needed that 8.
Well, I went shopping last week and bought new clothes-in that size 8. Nothing feels greater than buying that new pant size! My before and after pics really are amazing! And my ob had said I needed to lose another 20-30 lbs. I look at my picture-as do others-and go-how?!? But, I will still stick with it and hopefully continue to lose. Maybe my goal is now a six. I have a ton of excess skin(I had twins and 19 months later my daughter). I think that extra skin hanging around weighs a lot, dh is perplexed as well by it. Anyways...
Dh's cousin is getting married in July. I hope to be in that size 6. I'm running about 12 miles a week. My first 5K is next weekend. I'm doing p90x. This weight/fat/excess skin needs to go-and go fast! Lol!
I actually passed on a refresher for this month and said to call me back in June. I hope when they do, that I am close to my new goal and, won't need the refresher after all.
Patience. Perserverance. You can do it. We all can.
Aloha twinglesmomma - thank you for your inspiring story. I'm looking to expand my exercise in new ways, so I'll check out p90x. We have an incredible gym at work, which I've been using since Oct., and I recently started to use other machines beside the treadmill, like the elliptical and the recumbent bike. It was a great break through for me to do this switch, as I could see, once I got my coordination down, how different these workout were and I felt great when I finished. I even went to zumba classes. I'm running a 5k next week as well. Have a great run!
ReplyDeleteThanks Theresa! P90x is sick! Lol! I honestly could only do 1/20 of what I was supposed to. But, i know of someone who lost over 30 lbs just by doing the workouts! It's a 90 day program. If that's too much, my sister dates a personal trainer, I can give you the workout he suggested for me.
ReplyDeleteI have a bunch of recipes to post. One is acorn squash. Amazing! How do I become a contributor? My email is megcianflone@gmail.com. I would mostly do recipes and maybe my before/after photos.
And what 5k are you running???