How long if you're being consistent with minimal results?

[teachmom]

Kim,
I can relate to how you feel. It also took me awhile to see results. I Tapped off and on for a couple of years before things really clicked. I started Tapping in July 2009, then life got in the way--a new job, a hospitalization, a death, and a flood. The slight improvements I had at the beginning disappeared. I packed on 25 pounds. The second time around, I watched what I ate, tried to be consistent, but not perfect. Then I got out of the swing of things again, but got back into it more quickly. I now measure every 3-4 months. I'm down 25 pounds and about 2.5 sizes. I'm trying to focus on improving my overall health and not the inches. It's less frustrating, and the ironic thing is that the inches came off when I stopped worrying about it.

I think your initial success was probably a combination of watching your eating and T-Tapp--not one or the other. Try thinking about how you feel and not what the tape measure says. Stick with it. Try not to obsess about it too much. You will see results! Hang in there!

[kimodified]

Thank you, everyone, for the replies & encouragement.

I agree my initial inch loss was probably a combination ... I guess I was just hoping I could do it without worrying about what I eat. LOL. I have a hard time remembering to eat healthy all day long - I start the day well and then at some point just drift into mindless junk eating :-P

I don't know about the "adrenal fatigue" thing. I'm not really discounting it, just not sure it really fits me.

Same thing with emotional issues. Sure, there might be some. Everyone's got stuff! But there's nothing that comes to mind as "yes, I need to work through that." Maybe it's hidden and buried, but if that's the case I pretty much need to wait for the Lord to bring it up and say it's time to reveal it and work on it, right?

I guess my ... frustration? ... is this. Sure, I might have metabolic what-not to heal from. Or not. Maybe just not eating well, not getting enough sleep and trying to juggle the taxi- and- schooling of 7 children is enough to explain my tiredness. I don't feel "tired enough" or "sick enough" or "abnormal enough" (LOL - people might argue that last one, ha ha) to try to follow rabbit trails in hopes of some diagnosis to fix it all. Does that make sense?

Which leads me back to the whole T-Tapping ... I don't KNOW whether my slow losses are from emotional buried junk, or hidden metabolic junk, or just because it's just not going to work for me. I'll keep pressing on for now, but I guess I'm discouraged at not finding a "new me in 6 weeks" ...

Oh, as far as splitting up TWO -- occasionally I do it in halves - but usually what I mean by that is thirds - BWO+ one day, TWO starting from lunges and going up thru airplanes another day, and TTN through the end yet another day. I guess I just think of it has "half of TWO" because it was half of IW2, if that makes sense. I do not alternatue half of TWO, then the other half, every day, then repeat. Looking back over the last 6 weeks I've done TWO in halves only once back to back, but did have two full days off that week, and two days that were only PBS/OIP/HF.

the last two weeks I did:
S - totally off
M - BWO+
T - off
W - HTF
T - BWO+
F - TWO from Lunges to end (this is the only time I've done that much at once)
Sa - PBS/OIP/HF only

S- totally off
M - BWO
T - TWO lunges thru airplanes
W - TWO remainder of TWO
T - BWO+
F - totally off (trip)
S - totally off (trip)

Don't know if that info helps any.
I'm still pressing on.

[bogartlovesme]

Been there, done that Kim. You've gotten great advice. Sometimes (and I think it's the UNUSUAL ones who lose inches quickly and easily based on this forum) our bodies just need time. I quit last July after consistently Tapping for 6 months and then seeing gains. I regained 3/4ths of weight I'd lost and most of my inches...although it took 6 months to gain it back and I was nasty to myself, lol! TTapp MUST have helped my metabolism even though I wasn't seeing results anymore. But it WAS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT and DISCOURAGING to work as hard as I could, harder than some I saw on the forums who were losing, and not just want to throw in the towel. So I did

After 8 months of slogging, I restarted and am now losing inches (not much weight) again. I just hit my 9 week mark, and past experience tells me to prepare for the dreaded plateau. And for me.....to lose I MUST eat well. I've shared that I do the Food Lovers Fat Loss program, so nothing is off limits...but I have to eat a balanced plate 3x times a day with 100-200 calorie snacks inbetween so I eat every 2-3 hours plus tons of water. It keeps my blood sugar issues at bay, and goes hand in hand with my philosophy of 'moderation in all things' and 'less is more with TTapp!'.

That said, I've given myself a year. Come you-know-where or high water, I cannot quit my eating plan or Tapping for 12 months. I'm not allowed to weigh or measure unless I actually feel a difference in my clothing. I MUST focus on cumulative results because I'm just not gonna be a fast or easy loser, and it's gonna take a concerted effort of eating, moving, sleeping, keeping positive. Each part is significant and all must work together if I want to be healthier and smaller.

I sometimes wish more was said overtly about how Tapping often takes a LONG time to produce the kind of results we've all read about in the book. I think in some ways, the book gives us a false sense of how quickly it works for most of us. For every one person who loses the '2 sizes in 4 weeks', there are oodles of us panting and sweating thru our workouts seeing very little improvement in our clothes after even 2 months! You're not abnormal, you're just like the majority of us (IMO) that need to give our bodies both TIME and T-Tapp (and healthy eating habits) to get to our size goals.

peace to you.

[CityGirl]

Hey Kim,

One of my first thoughts on reading your posts was that you're just finding out what works best for you. For some, just T Tapp and no attention to eating actually works well, for some eating really has to be addressed to see any results at all, and probably for others there are results with TTapp but at some point along the journey they start paying more attention to their eating.
You've gotten a lot of great feedback and support here and I hope that helps.
Re your last post: when people divide up TWO, it's generally with a PBS to start off (so three separate workouts would be something like BWO; PBS then lunges through TTN; PBS then - oh dear, I don't remember the whole order! - arms through lawnmowers). Maybe you're doing that and just didn't write in PBS but I thought it was worth a mention.

[kimodified]

Oh, I'm sorry, yes, I DO do PBS before any "half" (or third" of TWO) I just forgot to write it.

Thank you for your encouragement. Maybe it just comes down to me throwing a little temper tantrum, I don't WANT to have to eat healthy to see results, LOL. I mean, I do WANT to eat healthy for HEALTH reasons - I want to feel alert and not bloated and yadda yadda ... but I don't want my inch loss to depend on it. LOL.

Sometimes I feel like I'm too ADD to eat healthy - too much "kid friendly" junk (yes, yes, I know my kids don't need it either) .... if I just get a few healthy-eating days under my belt (ha!) then I do better, but once I've fallen off the wagon it's so hard to get back in the rhythm ...

[winelover]

I. too. am one of those who, even though I am consistent (BWO+ usually 5 days a week) cannot lose anything...very frustrated at this point but I want to
continue for the health benefits. I do have hypothyroid and take meds for it but I wonder if I am ever going to lose any weight or inches!!!

[carrieayers]

It can definitely be discouraging to come to the forums and read that someone lost 2 sizes in 4 weeks and we have been tapping for 4 months and haven't lost a size yet. The majority of us are in the 2nd group though, I think. It will and does happen, just stick to it!

And I agree, it is definitely hard to get back on the healthy eating wagon when you have fallen off. I've fallen off so many times and it gets a little harder to get back on each time. But if I don't get back on, the weight and inches will! One of my Weight Watchers leaders said that if she eats something "bad" she has a piece of fruit afterward. It is her way of getting back on track.

Carrie

[kimodified]

I apologize if my posts about my discouragement have been discouraging to others or dragged anyone down with me. That was not my intent.

[joyfulmom26]

If you are referring to my thread, I clarified my wording! Someone else thought that was what I meant too!

Here's where I clarified...I didn't mean "discouraging posts" but "discouraged posters" LOL! I'm sorry!

Oops! Someone wrote me note and I want to explain here. I used the wrong word. I didn't mean that people sharing their frustrations was discouraging but that lots of people are discouraged and sharing...and of course, that is both discouraging and encouraging at the same time!

DON'T QUIT SHARING HONEST STRUGGLES! That is what this forum is here for!

[kimodified]

I think I can qualify as either ;-) -- it's hard to be discouraged and not be discouraging ... especially when it's hard to *internalize* the "don't worry, it'll eventually show!" types of replies ....