Yes! Having an environment conducive to maintaining weight loss. Finding a way to actually enjoy what you’re eating. Any feeling of deprivation won’t work in the long run. And the part about sticking to a plan 80 percent of the time. Food and alcohol are extremely pleasurable parts of life for some of us and I personally want to include them in my lifestyle somehow.
It's a reward in itself seeing lower numbers on the scale. I could even appreciate how some people wind up with eating disorders. I dropped my weight lower than I would want it now and eventually gained back to a weight I want to stay near to. This might account for why some stats will show people have failed or it's a good stratagy for some. In my case slowly growing to 186 lbs, dropped it to as low as 138 but happy with 153 or so for years now.
It took 4 months to get from 186 to 175 but then back up over 180 then I got to 165 in 6 months before bouncing back up just over 170. At that point I had turned 40 (my dad's fatal heat atack the year before may have mattered) and I went in for a physical. Before I got the blood results back I just started cutting most portions in half and I'd taken up cycling which kept me too busy for dinner. This brought me from 172 to 150 in 5 months. I kept it under 155 for a year and a half and then over about a year got it down to the low 138. This climbed up to 145 and stayed under 150 for 2 years. It bumped over 150 while traveling for a death in the family and has fluctuated more since but never far from 155 and according to two dexa scans I've gained 5 lbs of muscle in my legs in the last year and a half so weight in of itself isn't so bad.
I started tracking my weight daily and putting it on a spreadsheet 12 years ago to keep me on track. At some point it's probably not nessisary as I use a Garmin scale and it keeps track but I like graphs so that helped as well.
Wow, way to persevere. I'm sorry to hear about your dad. This is super impressive given the circumstances. If you have any questions or recommendations for an article, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Yes! Having an environment conducive to maintaining weight loss. Finding a way to actually enjoy what you’re eating. Any feeling of deprivation won’t work in the long run. And the part about sticking to a plan 80 percent of the time. Food and alcohol are extremely pleasurable parts of life for some of us and I personally want to include them in my lifestyle somehow.
It's all so much easier said than done, but still doable!
It's a reward in itself seeing lower numbers on the scale. I could even appreciate how some people wind up with eating disorders. I dropped my weight lower than I would want it now and eventually gained back to a weight I want to stay near to. This might account for why some stats will show people have failed or it's a good stratagy for some. In my case slowly growing to 186 lbs, dropped it to as low as 138 but happy with 153 or so for years now.
Congrats on the progress, and I'm glad it seems like you have found a comfortable weight to settle at. How long did it take to go from 186-138?
It took 4 months to get from 186 to 175 but then back up over 180 then I got to 165 in 6 months before bouncing back up just over 170. At that point I had turned 40 (my dad's fatal heat atack the year before may have mattered) and I went in for a physical. Before I got the blood results back I just started cutting most portions in half and I'd taken up cycling which kept me too busy for dinner. This brought me from 172 to 150 in 5 months. I kept it under 155 for a year and a half and then over about a year got it down to the low 138. This climbed up to 145 and stayed under 150 for 2 years. It bumped over 150 while traveling for a death in the family and has fluctuated more since but never far from 155 and according to two dexa scans I've gained 5 lbs of muscle in my legs in the last year and a half so weight in of itself isn't so bad.
I started tracking my weight daily and putting it on a spreadsheet 12 years ago to keep me on track. At some point it's probably not nessisary as I use a Garmin scale and it keeps track but I like graphs so that helped as well.
Wow, way to persevere. I'm sorry to hear about your dad. This is super impressive given the circumstances. If you have any questions or recommendations for an article, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Loads of helpful advice! Thank you.
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