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rawchic
on 02-05-2009 at 05:27 PM (424 Views)
Yay - my 3 p.m. meeting got canceled so I finally have a few minutes to type!

Yesterday concluded my fast: 3 days water, 3 days juice & 3 days smoothies. It went really well and I feel great!

Today I'm focusing on still eating lightly. I don't want to jump back in to eating lots of bars, nuts, etc. For me, I feel best when I limit heavy food & dehydrated stuff. I tend to go stock up on goodies, and then once the bags are open...all bets are off. I can eat an entire bag of kale chips or flax crackers or whatever in a single day. Not only is it too expensive, but my body doesn't need all that. I feel best when I'm eating everything fresh. So every now and then, I will buy some treats...but I'm focusing on not going overboard with them.

Also, I'm going to try focusing on maintaining weight for a while. I'm about half way to my goal weight. What has happened in the past when I get to this point, is that I plateau, then get frustrated and say screw it! and then I gain back to my starting point. So for the next week or so, I am not going to try to release more weight, I'm going to just be content with where I am at. I am enjoying my success, rather than focusing on how much more I have to go.

I've always been good at gaining and losing weight...but I stink at maintaining a steady weight. I really think it's important, health wise, for me to overcome this. I don't know the exact effects on my body from yo-yo'ing, but I know it can't be good.

Over this week, I am going to work on redefining my idea of what is "normal" for me to eat in a given day. What was a "normal" amount of food in my mind, is what kept those 10 extra pounds on me. Now I need to find "normal" for the weight I'm at now. Once I have that in check, I can work on losing the next 10 pounds - and then I can adjust my "normal" again to that weight.

I don't know if that makes any sense or not, but it does in my mind.

Anyone have any tips for how they maintain weight? Or how you have you overcoming yo-yo'ing?
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  1. MelissaO's Avatar
    Ahhh weight maintenance. I used to be able to do it without much effort in my younger years - that is when I used to not eat after 7 pm, I was pretty active, got enough rest and had less stress. This year I want to get back to my good old habits :)
  2. Jenifae's Avatar
    That sounds like a really good plan, rawhic. I think that plan can help with allowing the mind to catch up and stay with your new body place.
    I too yo-yo and am tired of it. I also, so screw it an go off the deep end when I feel like I failed. That is the purpose of fast/feasting with Knitster. I'm tired of snacking and overeating. It's such a habit and easy to fall into.
    So, learning how to maintain I think is really about creating a new eating habit and then continueing the new habit long enough so, that it take prevelance over the old one.
    Am I making sense? ;)
  3. rawchic's Avatar
    yep, that's what I'm thinking.
    My two things for this week are going to be: no eating after 6:30, and no second helpings.
  4. RawKnitster's Avatar
    Your all making perfect sense. I would always end the yo-yo by stopping the diet. Look where that got me. My plan for reaching and maintaining a healthy weight is to not allow carelessness and apathy to enter my life again.
  5. Jenifae's Avatar
    Good plan rawchic..........me too. Knitster once again you are sooooooooo deep thank you for that. Wow!


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