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LilMissDiva Irene    3,282

LilMissDiva Irene
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Thank you all for being so real with your thoughts & suggestions.... I do truly appreciate that!

I guess I look at some posts on here and some peoples weight loss and they appear to have these high numbers 75 pounds in 3 months or 125 pounds lost in 6 months.... Reading some of those posts make me feel really behind the loser bench instead of on the losers bench!!!

I know everyone is different and as much as I keep telling myself NOT to compare my weight loss with others, its hard not too!!!

I know, it's so easy to do that. But really when you do that and you don't measure up you're left feeling like a failure, and that is really the last thing you need right now. I'm sure you've felt those feelings enough in your past.

It is so important to remain confident and positive in this journey - because it is not an easy one and you have just begun. Keep your chin up and keep fighting for your dream of freedom from fat. You deserve to feel good about every single pound you have lost!!! We ALL deserve that!!! I just don't care if someone else is far ahead of me in weight loss, because for me this isn't a competition. I'm doing this for ME, my health and to live a better life - no one's living my life but me. If anyone disagrees, so let it be on them. I know my head and my heart is in this and I WILL make my goal *someday* and I will NEVER gain my weight back again.

Also, when you're looking at these stats it's impossible to know the story behind them. My last ticker says I've lost 133 Lbs - but you see I lost the first 50 before I had surgery and most of it was LONG before surgery.

I'm saying this with the greatest of intentions. I see these types of posts here far too often, and people are not being realistic, IMO. You can be doing everything right in the book, but sometimes the scale won't budge... it happens. But in time it will!!! Don't go down that negative road, stay on the sunny bright path and one day when it's meant to be so you will cross your finish line. I will be there to Celebrate with you!!!

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