Dreamgirl here! - Lakita's pursuit of "the bikini"

Well, I weighed myself last weekend like the other girls in my group, and the magic number seems to be the number 6, as in 6 pounds lost by each woman.  However, after working out hard and eating more scheduled meals I have lost a whopping 0 pounds!  That’s right nada, nunca, zero, zip, nothing.  Yes I am discouraged to say the least but I know it hasn’t been in vain.  My husband has noticed that I’ve shrunk and I have even noticed that my clothes actually do fit a looser.  As far as my eating goes, I pretty much eat healthy anyway; no white bread, white rice, white potatoes, coffee, alcohol or smoking.  The bummer is, phase II is to cut out all the stuff I don’t eat in the first place, so what now.  I’m sure we’re going to have to cut our portions back and maybe that will do the trick. 

Knowing that the others in my group are successfully losing weight is both encouraging and discouraging.  It’s good to know that ‘we doing it!’  But it’s discouraging after all of my working out and close attention to food choices that the scale hasn’t moved.  Scale or no scale, however, I know that I have obtained some physical goals like increased strength and lost inches.  I know that I have gained muscle mass, and I usually gain it rapidly which probably accounts for no change on the scale because muscle weighs more than fat.  It would have been nice to see some lower numbers on that scale though.  At least I’m in good company; there are some Super Bowl champions who weigh in at my same size.