Hiya Fern... I've ummed and ahhed at posting on this thread for the last few days, but haven't really known what to write.... But reading CP's reply has really made me think...
When I joined SW, my orginal target was to be a size 10, weight wasn't so much of an issue as I've always been a 'weigh more than I look' kind of person, mainly due to muscle. Anyway, as I approached my first target I decided to lower it because it wasn't going to get me to a size 10, well fair enough - it's hard to judge weight by size. The problem was though, that I didn't stop when I got to a size 10. I was a little more than my target, and really thought about calling target there, but I didn't, because I wanted to prove to myself I could do it - in spite of the fact I already had - I just hadn't got the numbers I thought I needed. So, I get to my weight target, actually 1.5lb below my weight target, but my target was reset to that weight. I then started thinking, well I'm only 4lb off 3stone loss, why don't I make it a round number? That will take me to one stone lower than my original target. I have it fixated in my head that I don't want to go over my target weight, I don't know why, maybe I will feel like I've failed at maintaining? But, what if I decided to go down to the three stone mark... ok, I haven't had any problems dropping the weight so far so I should eb able to get it off relatively easily.... But then what if I don't want to go over the weight of the 3 stone loss? Because would that make me feel like I haven't lost 3 stone? So would I go onto lose a bit more, so i would never go over that mark? That would probably end up taking me into the 8's, and I don't want to go that low. It can really escalate into a problem without realising it....
I'm now down to a size 8-10, I still have bits of my body I don't like to look at, but I don't think that losing any more weight is going to help. I do think i need to start excercising to one things up.
Only you can know what you really want though, and if you will actually will know when to stop. xxx