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I'm actually perfectly comfortable with having gone up a bit at the moment.
I was thinking about why am I snacking lately, why do I seem to be less intent on maintaining the direction, and so on.
I concluded in a startling dish-washing moment that maybe my brain and body knows exactly what it is up to. So I thought about that a bit more and I remembered that somewhere along the way when I began to lose much more than planned I reset my goal posts - maybe I shouldn't have done that.
So anyway, I realised that actually I am already where I hoped to be by the year end (if I hadn't reset my goals)
So I thought, maybe I should just swap challenge and try some maintenance methods for a while - then I thought I might be over thinking.
If I decide I am losing weight - I'll be less than happy if I stay the same
If I decide I am staying the same - I'll be less than happy if I lose weight?
no that can't be possible - so I decided ok, I'll 'maintain' and If I lose weight a tiny bit I won't mind.
What is truly bizarre is that once I decided this, and chatted about it to my girls too, I stopped wanting to snack... so I don't know what my mind really wanted, and I'm not totally sure which plan I am following, but we're all going to listen to the body and stop thinking too hard for a while.
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175.0 lb
Lost so far: 85.0 lb.
Still to go: 35.0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entry for 16 November 2016:
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797 kcal
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Fat: 21.36g | Prot: 33.32g | Carb: 121.38g.
Breakfast: Waitrose Semi-Skimmed Milk, Ryvita Fruit Crunch Crispbread, Coffee with Semi-Skimmed Milk. Lunch: Lingham's Sweet Chilli Sauce, Waitrose Seafood Sticks, Broccoli Flower Clusters, Tesco Sugarsnap Peas, Celery, Cucumber (with Peel), Sainsbury's Red Onions, Cabbage, Asda Extra Light Mayonnaise, Cherry Tomatoes. Dinner: Reduced Fat Brussels Pate, Wholemeal Bread. Snacks/Other: Golden Hoops Cheese, Gala Apples. more...
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gaining 0.7 lb a week
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Yes, moving goal posts. I changed my starting weight back in May/June to 75kg after losing around 7kg and my determination seems to have changed with it. I seem to have been in maintenance phase ever since, despite my goal of around 62kg. I'll take inspiration from your thought processes
16 Nov 16 by member: Phooka
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I think you are so right ARB good post. So good that you are happy. Sometimes i think we become to obessed about losing weight. Then it becomes such a disappointment when we don't, or worse we gain a little. I am starting to relax a bit more and thinking that this is a life change for me not a diet. The only slight difference is i am eating fewer calories to lose the weight and some exercise 😊😊😊
16 Nov 16 by member: bowd65
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16 Nov 16 by member: Doobrie
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ARB.. You've got it Buddy. You are down to a fabulous weight, so bloody marvellous. You gotta feel proud of yourself right now. Relax now and thing about maintaining the weight. This is the hardest part.. but you have got the understand of it now. I've got some way to go, but you and my buddies inspire me. If I could tell you in person then I would give you a hug because it's great.. It could me me soon. Rocking and rolling.
Xx💯💯💯✔✔✔
16 Nov 16 by member: Mrs Maths
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I found myself obsessing and overthinking a few months ago. Talk about stress! Once I relaxed and just made my eating plan be *part* of my life, instead of most of it, things got much better. Coast for a while, but keep an eye out for climbing up again.
16 Nov 16 by member: mskestrela
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Thanks buddies, it is great to have your support.
I've decided that I'm going to try and record everything I eat now, the idea is that although I'll eat whatever I want to on 'think maintain mode' I want to keep track of what I'm actually feeling like eating - if I do go a bit off the rails at least I've got some useful data out of it.
17 Nov 16 by member: ARB0001
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Good strategy, ARB. I did that at the start of the year for about a month before I started working on losing weight. It gave me a better idea of what I needed to do and where my weak points were.
17 Nov 16 by member: Phooka
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Good plan ARB! I think that is what i would do if i ever reach my goal
17 Nov 16 by member: bowd65
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I liked reading this post. After my recent success my sister decided to come on board a lose a few (not via FS) so I'm listening to her doing the same swinging from emotion to emotion. I compared that to how I feel/felt and thought how similar our paths were. Then reading your post saw something similar in that too when I reached my goal I changed it and I feel kind of different now but couldn't put my finger on it. I think this post has helped me, thanks ARB001. :)
19 Nov 16 by member: Mazchap
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