No Snacks, no sweets, no seconds. Except on Days that start with S. Too simple for you? Simple is why it works. Look here for questions, introductions, support, success stories.
my original maintenance goal was 124.5 pounds. It is possible I may change that now, but I will wait to get through the holidays and see how things go.
Mostly right now I am looking forward to a, hopefully, delicious Thanksgiving Day Dinner next Thursday,
One man's ceiling is another man's floor. I've convinced myself that a goal of 25% bodyfat at age 55 probably has to be good enough. i've been lower in my adult life but it was a strain. given that, I'm drooling over your 19% and wishing you wouldn't aim for less since that makes us 25%-ers look, as you say, fluffy. But, that's the world I live in. Oh, Zen masters, Jesus, Mohammed, Elvis, and Swami Suchabanana, give me strength! Then again, who knows what I'll be like after 8 months, especially when the exercise habit takes hold again.
There I go again, making everything about me, me, me, when it should be about you, you, You!
blueskighs, you rock!
Count plates, not calories. 11 years "during"
Age 71
BMI Jan/10-30.8
1/12-26.8 3/13-24.9 +/- 8-lb. 3 yrs
9/17 22.8 (flux) 3/18 22.2
2 yrs flux 6/20 22
12/20/24 24.1
Kathleen, Linda, Habtualrunner, KCCC, Gingercake, BrightAngel, Oolala, Resting and Connorcream
THANK YOU
I was thinking this weekend as tomorrow approaches ... 8 months of no snacking, no sweets and no seconds on N days ... wow... that is really kind of amazing! This has so far been such a wonderful and transformative journey! I am SO GLAD that you guys have been here to share it with!
This has so far been such a wonderful and transformative journey! I am SO GLAD that you guys have been here to share it with!
Same to you. I lurked a couple of months before actually joining. But in the interest in being clear, I will use the join date shown on my sign in. I need to write down all these new ways of seeing things in a clear manner.
Blues you summarize my thoughts so well I just end up agreeing with you.
connorcream
5'8.5"
48 yrs
Started calorie counting
10/6/2009
start/current
192/mid 120's maintaining
Maintaining a year
Congratulations! And THANK YOU for continuing to share your progress with us in such articulate and visually compelling detail.
I, too, wound up maintaining (considerably) under what I'd initially thought was my ideal weight. I'd gotten so used to being chubby that I assumed that that must be more or less my natural state -- that the most I could expect should be to be on the low end of chubby. But without trying to hit any particular number, simply by eating (and exercising) moderately and "seeing what happened" I wound up about 10 pounds under what I'd imagined I ought to weigh and have stayed there for 5+ years. It's funny how arbitrary and useless (and even discouraging, for many people) goal weights can be. So much better to focus on behavior.
