Stop and look at what you achieved and shut up your brain

I've lost 15 pounds since the beginning of November 2018, went from 171 to 156 this morning. Of course, the majority of it was lost during the first month, and now the loosing process is more of a fluctuating back and forth.

But I just couldn't accept it. I thought at first — well it's just water weight. Or the glycogen in muscles that my body lost since my no carb diet. It doesn't matter. You fit in those pants without squeezing your love handles? Well that's because you were just on your period, and we know how the weight drops after the period because the body stopped retaining water.

Just as in the past, when I was looking for excuses to NOT lose weight, I began to look for excuses to NOT COUNT this as a weight loss.

Then my parents saw me and told that I lost a lot of weight. My sister told me that I visibly skinnier. I checked my notebooks and diaries from several years ago, and I am the lightest right now in the past 3 years. Maybe, my weight loss is small in comparison to great results I saw in this sub, maybe I wasn't that heavy to begin with, but goddamn, why cannot I compliment myself for achieving the weight I didn't have for 3 years?

When I was fat, I used to tell myself "it's temporary, I used to be skinny so I'll get back to skinny one day" and kept eating, eating. I became fat, like with real overweight BMI. I told myself "well some of it's weight is muscle since I work out pretty heavy" sure bitch but you aren't lifting much bigger weights now than when you were skinny, so most of this extra weight is FAT.

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The brain works in funny ways. It does everything to persuade me to stay the same, to do nothing. I was fat and I saw it — the brain looked for excuses or at least, a delay in weight loss. I am getting skinnier and I clearly see it in the mirror and on the scales — and the brain tries to convince me it's not real, or that it's temporary, or that it's the days of the cycle when I am the lightest. Jesus brain. Shut the fuck up and accept that I did lose weight, and that I still have a lot to go and I will do it because I can.

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