Awww!!!! Don't worry love. Your body is a mysterious creature... but when you look at what you have done up to now, you see that in just 1 month of diet you've lost an incredible 9 lbs. Can you imagine that 9 LBS! Give your body some time to get used to this change before shifting some more. You might not know that, but 9 lbs is the equivalent of a human head (!!!!) plus a guinea pig
Well done for losing that!
Besides, is it TOTM by any chance? It happened to me all the time, at TOTM I had a halt in my weight loss, losing only 0.5 lb or maybe 1 lb maximum. It depends for any woman, during your ovulation or at TOTM you can put on up to 3 lb of water retention, which then goes away the following week. It's 4 weeks you're on the program, so it could very well be that, and you would find a very nice loss next week!
Chin up, as the others have said. Look back at what you have done up to now. You went from a BMI of 34.4 to a BMI of 32.9 in just one single month! If you keep doing what you've been doing, it will mean that by next month you might be out of the "obese" category! Isn't that a great result in just 2 months?
But even if you were keeping on losing only 0.5 lb a week (which I don't think it'll happen). That would mean that this time next year you will have lost 26 lbs! If you were losing only 1 lb a week instead that would mean 52 lbs lost this time next year! For your knowledge, you have now 63 lbs to lose to get to your goal, so a steady loss of 1 lb a week would mean that this time next year you would be only 11 lbs from your goal! That means that you would be just needing to lose 3 lbs to get to goal at Christmas 2011, and you would reach at goal on the first week of January 2012! What great way to celebrate the New Year of the Olympics?
But of course I'm sure you will have weeks with 2 or 3 lbs loss and other weeks with 1 or 0.5. If I look back to my weight loss, I've lost 63 lbs in 10 months. That's only 6 lbs a month, so you're doing better than that at the moment! I did have weeks with only 0.5 loss, or also with a gain. What would I have needed to do in that case, cut my veins?
Instead there I am, now at goal, still losing!
I want to share with you what were my weekly losses for the first month:
13st 2.1 26/07/09
12st 13.3 02/08/09
12st 10.9 09/08/09
12st 10.0 16/08/09
so as you can see, after a great start, on the fourth week (again, TOTM!) I had lost 0.9 lbs, so less than 1 lb. At meetings the scale shows changes of only 0.5 a time, so if I had had the WW meeting scales to weight me that week, I would probably have only lost 0.5 as well. Look at the following week:
12st 7.1 23/08!!!! So as you can see, it WAS water retention. Let's see the rest of the month:
12st 3.4 30/08
12st 1.6 06/09
12st 1.2 13/09 ---> again, as you can see, the fourth week I lost 0.5 lb!
Can you see a trend? But this way of losing allowed me to lose 63 lbs in 10 months. So you're on your way mate. You could be celebrating next Halloween at goal!