Weight Watchers Weigh-In Week 20

     This week was a bitter sweet one for me. Let's start with the upside :) . I lost 3.2 pounds for a grand total of 28.2!  ~WooHoo~!!! I feel like everything is really clicking and my hard work is paying off. The best part of this whole thing is...I feel like I've actually made a lifestyle change. I don't feel deprived or that I have to suffer through to get the pounds off to return to "regular" food or eating. I know that this is my new way of life and I'm looking forward to every moment of it. I'm sure there will be weeks when I am feeling less optimistic about it, but I will beat those down as they come. I am helping my brother to do that this week. This was his 5th week and he has lost just at 22 pounds until this week. That is a lot of weight to lose in a short period of time. I had been warning him that it wouldn't stay that way and there would be ups and downs...well it happened this week. The scale showed him gaining 2 pounds. He was devastated. I tried hard to get him to understand that this is just a part of the process. I even pulled out my WW weight record to show him my patterns.

     I tend to lose good two or three weeks, gain a pound the next, then lose slowly for one or two weeks. I have come to accept this pattern and look at my weight loss as a whole and not beat myself up week to week. I hope this doesn't discourage him too much. He did assure me that he was going to work harder this week. I just hope he doesn't over do it. It is starting to really heat up here and a heat stroke is the last thing he needs. I am going out of town this weekend to see my dad for father's day and will miss my Monday meeting. I plan on going to one in a neighboring town to make up for it. I can't stop now!