Starting the school semester, my new job, and financial issues have seemed to push my weight loss to the back burner.

I’ve been very disappointed with myself these past couple of weeks. I think because I’ve been stressed out, as well as bored with eating the same foods over and over, I fell off the bandwagon. I stopped taking my appetite suppressants and started eating junk food. I went out to eat several times and was very close to giving up. Being a psych major, I really think there are a lot of psychological issues involved when you’re trying to lose weight. I’ve lost over 30lbs now- you’d think that would be enough to keep anyone sticking to it, but that wasn’t the case. There are other factors playing a part there that I plan on researching a bit more. With such great results, why would I even think about just giving up altogether??

When I went to the weight loss clinic on Wednesday (9/5), I went there ready to quit. I shamefully stepped on the scale and found out I weighed the exact same weight as I had when I weighed in the time before that, which was two weeks earlier. I was very disappointed because I had lost about 5lbs over the course of the two weeks, but managed to gain it back in the three days before my weigh in. I told them the problems I was running into- I couldn’t afford it anymore ($50 every week or $60 every two weeks) and that I was having a lot of trouble sticking to the diet because I couldn’t possibly eat another bite of the SAME foods. I’m sure this is a common problem with people who are on a diet like Atkins or a different one that is very restrictive.

The nurse had a lot of helpful suggestions. First of all, she said that if I would promise to stick with it they would work with me on the cost, lowering it from $50 to $25 a week- for both me AND my mom. Money is a precious commodity right now, so I was grateful that the nurse was so kind in helping us out and so encouraging. Another suggestion that she made was to be creative with the foods that we cook. Find new recipes and try different combinations to mix it up a bit.

So with the encouragement of the weight loss clinic and my own will to succeed, I’m losing weight again. I’m about 35lbs down now, but that’s weighing on our home scale. The official amount will be determined when I weigh in on Wednesday.

So please, if you’re on your own weight loss journey and you’re struggling, don’t give up. You can do it! Just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and keep on shrinkin’.

~Shrinking Kim