I recently hit a new low - the good kind though! I hit the 256 pound mark and it felt like it wouldn't happen for a long while. I felt like I hit a plateau going downwards and I was beginning to get a bit frustrated. You know the type of frustration I mean? It's when you feel that you've done everything you can and your no further ahead than you were doing nothing, so maybe doing nothing is better. I fought off this type of thinking because when I was stuck in the 270's and couldn't break through to the 260's I considered looking into what the best diet pills were and maybe if I did this or that but I was doing enough right now. I cut out soda, desserts, all forms of candy, starches like breakfast bars and loaf bread. I even asked my wife when she was making my lunches to just give me the meat and no bread and I'd eat it with my sugar free drink. I was getting mad too. I'd weigh in at 260 and then do some yard work in the Florida sun, sweat like hell, jump in the pool for a bit and weigh in again - 262. What the? How could I have actually put 2 pounds on? I felt like I had sweat out 5 pounds of fluid. Evidently I didn't. That night I had a piece of cake my wife made because I figured what's it going to matter. The next day I weighed in after work and I was now at 258. I give up, I'm just going to go with the flow on this one.

The way I figure it, I hit a point and my body retools to that new base weight ( I never went above 262 again) before it went further down. I know fat cells have a memory, oh yes they do. If you lose a lot of weight quickly your body will want to return to it's last known base weight or Body Mass Index. If you allow it to learn another, lower, BMI you can slip a bit but you shouldn't fall a lot.

The moral of the story is take your time because if it's worth it the time you take is an investment. Who cares about looking good in a Speedo, they don't hold your goodies properly anyways.