Comments on: …but I’m losing weight again

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:50:45 +0000

@PastaQueen – I sure as hell wouldn’t post my weight on line.

By: PastaQueen

PastaQueen — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:33:45 +0000

@Eileen – The thought did cross my mind and then kept on going. Weighing in on the Internet just makes me psycho.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:31:54 +0000

Good luck to you, PQ, on your continuing journey. I hate to mention this because I know you have sworn off of it: When you had such great success before, you were posting your weight at regular intervals. Do you think that would give you extra accountability and keep you on track? Just a thought.

By: PastaQueen

PastaQueen — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:47:33 +0000

@s@d.com – I can see someone didn’t read the last chapter of my book.

By: s@d.com

s@d.com — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:42:35 +0000

not to be a troll but I remember you saying that you don’t understand how people gain the weight back and “you know that won’t happen to you.”

it just sneaks up on people.

By: John

John — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:34:03 +0000

Over the past few years I went from 250lb to about 205lbs. I plan on losing another 15 or 20lbs..I wish you success with your diet. I’m rooting for you..

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:26:41 +0000

I love all your ideas, and am inspired by your plans to mix up your workout routine to keep it interesting. Right now I’m trying to find a workout plan that doesn’t bore the crap out of me (I’m limited because I had foot surgery 8 weeks ago).

And I also like your Cookie Plan. Maybe if you can hold out to the end of the day, you won’t even want one so much, and you can close your eyes, hold your breath, and run past them on the way out. If not, eating just one on the way to your car will do much less damage. Good luck!

By: Cass

Cass — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:37:21 +0000

I recently realized that whole “Just Do It” thing too – Which just goes to show that it takes 20 years for good marketing to reach me. LOL.

By: Juicebox.mom

Juicebox.mom — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:03:39 +0000

Keep up the good work. I’m in the same place as you…..somehow lost my motivation a few months back after doing well with maintenance for 2+years…now trying to find it again.

By: BrightAngel

BrightAngel — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:21:03 +0000

I’ve shared before that my high was 271 lbs 15 years ago, just prior to a gastric bypass; and that my more recent high was 190 in September 2004.

I am now in my 32nd month of maintaining a large weight-loss.

My maintenance range is between 115 lbs and 105 lbs, although almost all of that 32 months has been between 110 and 116.

It is very important to me to keep my weight off, because in my life I’ve re-gained weight-losses of over 100 lbs three separate times.

In order to keep my weight from climbing, I have to work every day. For me personally to maintain my weight-loss it has been necessary for me to weigh every day, and log all my food into my software food journal daily, along with faithful daily exercise.

The 2007 Christmas Holiday season, I gained from hanging around 111 lbs to hanging around 117 lbs. I have worked all year so far to drop that extra weight, most of the time eating an average daily calorie intake of between 1000 and 1200 calories, but here it is the end of Sept and after a year of healthy low-cal eating I still am hanging around 115 lbs.

I am 63 years old and 5’0′, and although the charts say my burn, with my 1 hour of daily low-impact exercise should be in the 1500s,

my daily calorie records show that I’ve during the past 9 months I’ve burned an average of about 1330 daily calories, and during the past 31 months by eating an average of 1399 calories. I’m having a test to have Resting Metabolism Rate assessed in a couple of weeks, to see how low that MR number actually is.

My dream is that someday it would just feel natural for me to eat the way I need to eat to maintain this healthy weight for my age and size, but that is a fantasy, because what is natural for me is to overeat.

So why am I sharing this with you?

Because I like you.

Because I hope you maintain your weight-loss.

Because the Reality of how much work it takes to maintain a large weight-loss is difficult to comprehend.

Just as I think I have fully understood and accepted that Reality, it tends to slip away.

I think this is probably true for everyone.

Isn’t it sad that the natural slide is up, not down?

Where is the law of Gravity when you really need it?

Congratulations for getting back to the business of maintenance.