Plateaus

As of late my weight loss has been on a standstill. Nothing is more discouraging than a weight loss plateau! In my post yesterday about guidelines I wrote about not weighing yourself every single day... this is why. Nothing is more discouraging to someone in the weight loss process as seeing the same numbers on the scale day in, day out.
I KNOW that standstills are just a part of the process, EVERYONE who has a significant amount of weight to lose will eventually face at least one, and probably many more than that. This is not my first plateau, and I'm sure it will not be my last, but none the less it never fails to make me feel like absolute crap when it happens.
I know there are a lot of tips out there on how to break a plateau, but the fact is that everybody's body is different, and different things work for different people.
Different strokes for different folks.
I was recently given some new advice by my general doctor, that I think I might just try is my plateau is not over my Tuesday.
The suggestion is to do a liquid post op diet for 10 days and then eat nothing but protein (chicken, fish, etc) for the 48 hours following that. The change should give my body the extra little jump start that it seems like it might be needing.
When I fist saw how fast I was losing the weight, I was really looking forward to going with my family to the beach this summer. I had myself convinced that I would be down to at least 190, would look better than I had in years, and could finally enjoy my vacation without having to worry about the looks I would get from other beach goers. It was a nice fantasy, but now I'm starting to think that it was only that... a fantasy. With the way this plateau is going, there is no way that I will be below 200lbs by then.
Don't get me wrong... I am ecstatic that I have lost as much as I have, as fast as I have. I know a lot of people aren't that lucky. I guess, I'm just scared that this wont work for me. One of the main reasons that I chose to have this surgery is because I HAVE tried diets in the past and none of them have ever worked for me. I'm just worried that this will turn out to be like one of those failed diets.
I didn't have insurance to pay for this surgery, and $30,000 is a lot of money to spend on something that is no longer going to work for me.
My rational mind knows that this too shall pass, and soon enough I will be on my way down the road of weight loss again, but the pessimistic side of me is just not willing to listen to that.
See what these darn plateaus do to your mind?
I made the mistake of continuing to go on the scale every single day, and sometimes even twice a day. Darn scale!
*SIGH* THIS TOO SHALL END