Ahh...the last 10 pounds. I was asked in another thread to comment on whether the last 10 pounds came off slower than the first 90 pounds. The answer in short form is YES the answer in long form takes on a whole different thought process. What are the last 10 pounds? Is it FAT you need to lose, excess skin mixed in from heavy weight stretch, soft tissue in need of toning or is it an unrealistic goal? It will be different for each of us depending on lots of factors but for me it was a mixture of soft tissue in need of toning and an unrealistic goal... In my case I'm a goal driven person and FTS is a program that allows people like me to reevaluate and reset
weight loss goals lower and lower and lower....why? because the body will continue to eat away at the FAT stores for as long as you deny it outside sugar sources.
My first
weight loss goal was to reach 195 pounds...under 200 for the first time in years was a mile stone for me. My next goal was to reach 179 pounds...yeah I know...why not 175, It just seemed to me that breaking 180 would be cause for celebration, I think I was 180 when I was born!
Well, 179 came and went and the next goal was 169.....the infamous last 10 pounds.....It took a while and I must admit at this stage I found myself truly recognizing how little food I needed day to to day compared to the quantities I ate 95 pounds ago.. I also found myself in need of toning soft tissue so I picked up some 20 and 30 pound dumbells each day, did sit ups and even stepped on Sherri's dreaded treadmill once or twice. It seemed to take forever, around 90 days but sure enough the scale finally read 169 pounds. At this point I should have stopped but......how about that "last" ten pounds, maybe I could make it to 159!
Once again I hit the mark and once again I reevaluated my
weight loss goals and my current weight....158.......
158! But, guess what...I STILL felt FAT! For the first time in my life I understood how a slender woman might feel when she says she's fat at 115 pounds! Here I was a grown man almost 6 feet tall thinner than I ever dreamed I could be. It was time to really evaluate where I had landed. I sat down with Sherri and asked her honest opinion... I asked her if I looked FAT to her? She laughed in my face and suggested that maybe, just maybe I had actually gotton too thin...but I didn't FEEL too thin if you can understand that. Finally I decided to stop. I concluded that the proper weight for my frame was probally 10-15 pounds heavier than I was. I also decided that the scale would always tempt me to lose that "last ten pounds" so I turned my back on it. Instead I went with my waist size, 32-34. For me this put an end to the "last ten pounds" and instead kept me focused on 32-34. 8 years later I still wear the same size jeans, still fit into my Kevlar riding pants, eat all the FTS food I want and never have too exercise to maintain my size. I'm proud to say I haven't stepped on a scale in two years.
So here's the question.....Do you really have ten pounds left to lose? Are you at the size you want to be? Are you happy with the way you look and feel....OR
IS THE SCALE DECIDING FOR YOU?
