Pesky Pound! #funnyrant

I'm really just annoyed. I'm not mad or in a 'stall' or anything. I just want to complain about a pesky pound. I set a really ridiculous goal when I started to see "Can I lose 200 pounds?". I mean, how ridiculous does that even sound, right? But here I am. I've lost 198+ pounds. My life has changed in so many positive ways I cannot even count them. 

And yet for the last week, I've just obsessed over this damn pound! The first 198 came off and I cheered and smiled. This one is bothering me and making me feel anxious. I just had to say that outloud to check myself. I've been so focused on that 1 pound that I've diminished those other 198 that left before it. 

Isn't it funny how we can get so hung up on the smallest things and lost track of the huge, massive, enormous picture? :)
Have a great weekend everyone. I'm off to lose this pound once and for all! 

(while the pound is making me crazy, this post is mostly just a humorous musing at the perspective I've gained with all of the weight I've lost).

First of all, CONGRATULTIONS on your amazing weight loss!  Well done, Nate   Second, you probably wouldn't be normal if you didn't obsess/stress at last once over that damned number on the scale.  We've all "been there, done that".  Thankfully, most of us get over it 

Thanks, Tracy! I realized this morning that I'm being so dramatic about this pound. I've made deals with myself, pleaded with the scale and this morning it was like a lightbulb went off showing me naked. On the scale. Pleading to God (or someone) to have lost a pound. I thought, "Is this who I've become?". Smiling, of course. I'm totally not a lunatic about this, I just got really wrapped up. 

I've learned so much here on from my support system but this was a real lesson that I learned all own my own. Naked and shamed on my scale. LOL! 

This happens so, so often. Whether it's pounds lost, or getting under 300, or 200, or whatever. It must be in our heads, but it's always where we seem to get stuck.

Yes, you're right. And I have "math OCD" and really just like round, even numbers. ;) 

Well, if you have msth OCD, forget about 200. 197 and 199 are prime numbers, 200 is not. Congrats on 197!!!! One more pound til 199!!! Next stop 211!!!

That's awesome 198 is huge Good luck there is a lot of things you can do to lose 2 lbs in a weekend Stay steadfast!

When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp!

 I've heard some doozies in my life, but never that one! 

Okay, I know I replied earlier today, but my response must be somewhere in cyber space! Aye yi yi!

Basically what I wrote was.... WOW!!!! 198 pounds is freaking AWESOME. Yeah, I know you want that 200, but still....

I love your witty perspective on the whole obsession over a pound and a half! I totally get it - I called goal at .8 of a pound above my goal weight because I sat there for days. I was frustrated and decided that enough was enough. Naturally the next day I was slightly under my goal weight and the day after that a full pound under goal.

Your pound plus will come off and your great sense of humor and grip on reality will get you through!