Help For Those Who Panic About Plateaus...

December 15, 2000

OK List...

I have to do whatever I can to avoid insanity. I am a

notorious scale-stepper, I admit it. I'm just

obsessed I guess (You have your OCD... I've got mine).

I created a worksheet to help me NOT PANIC about

plateaus... I call it the PANIC PLATEAU PAGE.

I admit that I want desperately to be a fast loser

(winner). I understand that the average weight

loss in the first year is 140 +/- 20 pounds (120-160).

But I know that most of it falls off in the first six

months.

Knowing this, I created a worksheet to help me

determine where I should be and if I am a slow,

average or a fast loser.

If you have these PANIC PLATEAUS as well, use the

worksheet to help you determine if you are really at a

plateau or is this is a false belief because of some

false expectations or if the scale didn't show a loss

on a particular day, week or month...

Instructions on using the worksheet:

Along the second to left hand column, enter your

surgery date (or your projected surgery date). Week

1's date should be 7 days later. So if your surgery

is 1/1/00, the week 1 date will be 1/8/00. The

numbers to the right reflect the amount of pounds

lost.

My surgery date was 10-25-00. So far I am down

anywhere between 34 and 36 pounds (depends on the

scale). This is week 7 for me. Even at the fastest

projected weight loss, I shouldn't be at a 35 pound

weight loss until week 10, yet it's week 7! And in

the worst case, if I'm a very slow loser, I shouldn't

be down 35 pounds until week 18. So if I don't lose a

single pound between now (week 7) and week 18, I'm not

on a plateau at all. I'm right were I'm supposed to

be.

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