Do you ever get frustrated during your weight loss journey because you are not losing weight or maybe even worse… you are gaining weight? That is something I have been struggling with lately and I’m trying to do any and everything I can to lose more weight. It’s so easy to get discouraged and want to quit. When I start feeling this way, I just try to remind myself that the only thing I have to gain by quitting is weight, and I know deep down that is the last thing I want to do to myself.

While I was at the office working today, I was thinking about how my weight loss has been a journey with lots of ups and downs along the way. Many times I think back on my life when I was skinny and happy and I get discouraged and depressed, but I know that you can’t move forward when you are always looking back, so I’m trying to refocus myself on the goals that I want to achieve and am determined to achieve.

I’ve been living low carb now for 9 months and 2 weeks and have lost a total of 30lbs. Right now my weight is fluctuating anywhere from 135lbs-143lbs. My goal weight is 120lbs, which was a healthy weight for me before I started struggling and gained all of my weight in 2006. I would love for my weight to be anywhere from 115lbs-120lbs, but I’m just taking it one day at a time. I would love to reach my goal weight by June 8, 2010 because that will be my one-year anniversary from when I started living low carb.