Why is that we as dieters believe that our weight should just fall off???? We are all smart adults, or young adults, who know that it wasnt put on us over night and it isnt going to come off overnight. Still we hope that after a week on a diet its all going to be gone. At least I do. LOL.

This morning I am frustrated, being a hopeful dieter, I was excited yesterday when I had lost 5 pounds. Today I jumped back on the scale and it showed I was back up 4 pounds. One word can sum that up DEVESTATED! In that brief 5 seconds that it took to pop up that dreaded 247.8 on that screen, I was ready to run to the kitchen and devour anything with carbs.

Immediately I called my mom, who is a low carb expert LOL. I wanted some encouragement, some sympathy, **** I wanted someone to say that scale was broken. Instead I got what I knew was coming. "You can't go by the scale honey, and its only been a week. Give it more time". This was not what I wanted to hear. She decided to come over and do my measurements. That cheered me up a bit, surely I would have lost at least an inch somewhere on this body. Yea, that was shot down in a blaze of glory too. It's like I'm getting bigger instead of smaller.

So here I am now, blogging about my frustration because I wanted to loose some more weight. My mother took my scale and told me I was grounded from it for at least a week. Watching her walk out my front door with my scale made me feel like crying. I don't want to become obsessed with this, ya know? I have seen people who do. But I have a goal and I'm dead set on making it. That's another story in itself which I'm sure I will get into later.

Still, I'm NOT giving up. That's become my motto. Although I am frustrated with that stupid scale. I know that even at this very moment my body is burning calories and im losing weight. All thanks to atkins... But that still doesnt stop me from wanting it off now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL.