As you Reach your Goal

As a calorie counter approaches their weight loss goal the process of loosing weight will slow down. This is a very trying experience that will truly test your dedication to loosing weight. Thinking back to how this works, if you consume less than what your body needs you will loose weight.

Simply put, the slimmer you are the fewer calories your body needs. Thus the amount of calories that you intake per day will slowly approach the amount of calories that your body consumes per day. This makes sense in that if our weight was where it is supposed to be we would be consuming approximately what we use each day. It can take a much longer time to loose the last ten pounds because of this.

I am happy to be at the point where I am working on the last ten pounds that I want to loose to get to my target weight of 155 lbs. But it is requiring some serious dedication to get there. I can go weeks at a time without loosing much weight at all. This is a common experience though.

When I started exercising it resulted in the building of muscle tissue which, as you know, weighs more than the fat I am burning. I try to keep this in mind as I step onto the scale in the morning. I want to see that scale going down each day, though I know that it won't. At this point a look at the bigger picture is needed.