Whining helps!

It's hard to say how all this dieting stuff works because like I stated, I broke my cardinal rule and weighed mid-week and had lost .2 lbs. which naturally caused me to cry.  I even weighed myself after my pity party hoping the tears I'd shed weighed 3 lbs. but no luck, still .2 lbs.  Then I ended up with a 3 lb. loss this week, better than last week and I NEVER lose more weight than my first week when dieting.  I think God got tired of hearing me whining and scraped some excess fat off for me.  Whatever, I'm far happier with my numbers now.  From this point though, I typically really slow down, to 1-1.5 lbs. a week but I'll still be happy with that because it'll get me to my goal, not in the money, but to my goal and that's really what I want anyway.  Good luck all!