There used to be a time when I absolutely HATED the scale. I dreaded stepping on it each week, never quite sure what it would reveal. I always judged my progress, and even myself, solely on what that scale revealed! But now, I'm excited to see what it has to say...partly because I know it doesn't tell me the whole story...even a gain on the scale (as I saw a couple of weeks ago) doesn't mean what I'm doing isn't working (especially, if you'll remember, I lost 4 inches from my waist that week & 2.8 pounds off the scale the following week)! So, I try to take what my scale tells me with a grain of salt, so to speak. ;)
That being said, I was seriously expecting a BIG weight loss on the scale yesterday. I had dreams of dropping 5, or even 10 pounds (not very realistic, but that didn't stop me from dreaming)! After all, I had worked out three times on the elliptical...30 minutes at a whack, using the arm things that go back & forth the whole time, even! That should account for something, right? ;) After all, it's the first time in 4 weeks that I've actually exercised at all. So, when I stepped on the scale Friday morning and saw the result, I'm not gonna lie...I was slightly disappointed. One pound...that's what I saw. One little ole' pound. Humph!
But then...I got to thinking - muscle weighs more than fat. If I was exercising, I was probably building some muscle, even as I lost some fat. And besides, we know that ole scale can be fickle from time to time. So, I pulled myself right on out of that pity party and began to celebrate that pound. After all...it was a pound in the RIGHT direction...DOWN!!!! ;)
I think anyone in any kind of weight loss program can get into that mindset...getting frustrated because the loss wasn't what we wanted or thought it should be. It's too easy to get frustrated because the scale doesn't properly reflect the hard work we know we've put in. But, the scale is just a single measurement tool. There's so many other things we can use to measure our success! Sure, there's also the measuring tape...and I probably should have pulled that puppy out - but I didn't. Instead, I focused on not only the one pound LOSS...but also on the other successes I see happening! There are probably 6-8 Diet Cokes sitting in my refrigerator - cold and waiting to be enjoyed...and have been for the last several weeks! But, instead of reaching for one of those when I'm thirsty, I actually PREFER to drink water. In case I've failed to mention this before, let me just tell you how HUGE that is...water has NEVER been my first drink choice. If I'd had too much soda, I'd opt for iced tea...or lemonade...ANYTHING other than water! But now - more often than not, I'd rather have water than anything else! I do believe the Plexus actually causes me to CRAVE water! I'll be flat honest with you...that's one craving I NEVER thought I'd have! LOL! ;)
Some other measures of success include choosing to eat less, making wise choices in the foods I do eat, and desiring to exercise more! I was telling a friend just yesterday that one of the things about Plexus that I think helps me most is that it gives me the opportunity to make more wise choices. Could I choose to eat unhealthy while taking Plexus? Sure! Plexus doesn't wrestle me to the ground and make me eat more healthy or eat less. It just helps me not feel deprived when I make those choices! I can literally look at a cupcake and pause long enough to actually think, "Do I really want that?" More often than not, the answer is now no. Could I still eat it? Sure...but why do that? Why eat something unhealthy that I don't really want to eat in the first place?
To help you understand this a little more, I'm going to reveal something about myself that I have previously always tried to hide (sometimes more successfully than others)...I am a BIG eater! I really, really LIKE to eat...and eat large quantities of it, if it tastes good! And when I don't eat as much as I'd like of something, I feel deprived...which, unfortunately, often ends in a private binge eating session later. This, I think, is primarily why most diets fail for me. Sure...I can play the game for awhile - count those calories, points, fat grams, or what have you! I'll be very militant about it...for awhile. But then, it's not fun anymore, the weight loss starts to slow down, and I start feeling deprived. At that point, it's just not worth it to me anymore, and I give up. There's not a lot of gray area for me when I'm dieting...I'm either doing it to the letter - or I'm not doing it at all. The only in between for me is when I'm pretending that I'm doing it (lying to both myself and others) when I'm really not.
That's where I feel Plexus helps me most. There is nothing I can't have...and there's no limit on how much. I don't have to count anything and I don't have to write down what I ate. I just don't have time for that in my life. With Plexus, I simply take my two accelerator pills in the morning with breakfast and then drink my pink drink (Plexus Slim) when I finish my coffee, sometime mid-morning. That's all there is to it! It helps me pay attention to what my body needs and wants. It keeps me from being so hungry all the time that I just want to fill the hole with whatever tastes good. It takes away my cravings for carbs, sweets, and soda! And since I don't have to fear being hungry later or feeling deprived, it gives me the freedom when my husband asks me how many hot dogs or grilled cheese sandwiches I want to say, "I just want one, thanks!" And that, my friends, is a HUGE success in my book!!!
I have always heard it said that if you wanted to be thin, you should eat like a naturally thin person. For the life of me, I could never understand what that meant. When I've observed naturally thin people, I noticed that they didn't eat salads at every meal, they didn't write down everything they ate, they didn't drink protein drinks instead of eating a meal, and they didn't count calories or points. And yet, that's what most every weight loss program boils down to - one or more of those strategies. What I noticed instead was that they would eat whatever it was they wanted to eat (and nothing else)...and they stopped eating when they were full. Plexus has helped me do just that. If I want pizza or cake or whatever, I can have it...and I can have as much as I want. But with Plexus, my desire for it is less and the amount it takes to make me feel full is FAR less!
Getting back to what the scale has to say...even though this week was a single pound, over the last 4 weeks, I've lost a total of 8.8 pounds - that's better than a 2 pound per week average! Everything I've read says that a healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds per week. So, I'm in that general ball park...and that makes me feel good! :)
If you are interested in how Plexus could help you, please visit my website at www.karaj.myplexusproducts.com or contact me via my Facebook page. There are also testimonials on both my website and Facebook page of how Plexus has helped others. :) You can order a 3-day or 7-day supply of Plexus Slim (with or without the accelerator) from my website if you want to see first hand how it works for you. There's a discount on the 30-day supply if you sign up as a preferred customer and always a 60-day money-back guarantee! Or, if you would like to get it at wholesale, you can sign up to sell it - just contact me for more details! :)
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