I found a way to focus on positive when negative gets me down

[katspaw 20]

So today I had an emotional day of eating because I had "only" lost 6 pds after my fill was done 10 days ago. For some reason I thought I should loose at least 10 pounds within 2 weeks of getting my fill due to the liquid diet we are on at first etc... My 5 pounds were in the first 6 days with around a 4/10ths of pound per day for the remaining 4 days. Because I can't seem to Celebrate the positive and focus on the negative.....I ate a chicken, bean & cheese burrito from Chipotle and I couldn't feel more miserable!!! I felt sp bloated and non-functioning that I just cried because I had been doing pretty good after my fill in 4 years.

So being the type A Project Manager I am... I divided my 30 meals I have had in 10 days by my 27 successful meals I have eaten and my track record is actually 90%!! That was so more significant to me than the pounds I hadn't lost!!!!! 90% of my eating was successful in the last 10 days! That meant the world to me. I think I also realize the scale is a trigger for me and isn't healthy and I can't focus on it like most of you can. I thin I will have to focus on successful meals per week instead of pounds for a while.

Not sure if anyone else has had to deal with this and found ways around it but I thought I would share just in case. It made me feel more proud of my accomplishments than I had been filling.

[2muchfun 8,927]

You are definitely over-thinking this. BTW- 6 lbs in a month is very good so no reason to think anything negative over "Just" 6 lbs in a few days. Actually, stop thinking. You can lead a normal life with the band if you just pay attention to the signals your band will send you.

tmf

[katspaw 20]

I couldn't agree more.. I said to my best friend today that I need to get out of my head because I am making this worse than it should be. But boy o boy is it so hard.