How long have you maintained your weight on LCD?
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Hola,
How long have you maintained your weight on LCD?
In this time, how many ?slip-ups? have you had?
How many times did you have to lose the weight again?
I've only been on LCD for 20 days, and I'm loving my lack of carbage cravings.
But I was reading the thread: "For those who gained it back," and it made me think about my ability to do this long-term.
@Koldnomore posted:
"Do yourself a favor and don't actually do anything you won't be able to keep up for the rest of your life"
Can I go without:
- giving into carbage?
- eating handmade gnocchi?
- enjoying a refreshing glass of margarita?
I think because it's only Day 20 of my diet, and
I had yummy tasting alternate options (roasted chicken and saute shishito peppers),
that I was able to eat a controlled "cheat" treat of 0.5cup of roasted tri-color organic potato.
How do I control my carbs addiction once I reach my goal weight and start adding SOME carbs back into my diet?
Or do I really go through life not eating 80% of the food out there?
Our family is going to Asia for 3.5weeks vacation next year.
I do NOT want to stay low-carb while on this trip, because I want to eat and try many things:
- noodles
- rice
- tropical fruit
- treats, etc.
How do I NOT gain back all my weight?
Appreciate you sharing your experience.
Thank you,
Amanda
Tonight's diner:
How long have you maintained your weight on LCD?
In this time, how many ?slip-ups? have you had?
How many times did you have to lose the weight again?
I've only been on LCD for 20 days, and I'm loving my lack of carbage cravings.
But I was reading the thread: "For those who gained it back," and it made me think about my ability to do this long-term.
@Koldnomore posted:
"Do yourself a favor and don't actually do anything you won't be able to keep up for the rest of your life"
Can I go without:
- giving into carbage?
- eating handmade gnocchi?
- enjoying a refreshing glass of margarita?
I think because it's only Day 20 of my diet, and
I had yummy tasting alternate options (roasted chicken and saute shishito peppers),
that I was able to eat a controlled "cheat" treat of 0.5cup of roasted tri-color organic potato.
How do I control my carbs addiction once I reach my goal weight and start adding SOME carbs back into my diet?
Or do I really go through life not eating 80% of the food out there?
Our family is going to Asia for 3.5weeks vacation next year.
I do NOT want to stay low-carb while on this trip, because I want to eat and try many things:
- noodles
- rice
- tropical fruit
- treats, etc.
How do I NOT gain back all my weight?
Appreciate you sharing your experience.
Thank you,
Amanda
Tonight's diner:
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It's the want for doing things you're not doing that can create the failure...
Can you go off the rails for vacation and come back home and get back on plan? Then do it. If not, then don't.
I've maintained the same weight for a year now, however, I've not yet achieved all the fat loss I actually desire. But I am only a 23 BMI, so I figure, I could totally stop here if I wanted to.
I've never gone off plan on purpose (had done hidden sugar in sauce once that made me feel unwell) and I love the food I eat so I don't have any plans to.
Other than fluctuating between a 5 pound weight variance, I've not had any regains.0 -
This is the first time I've done keto, and I'm finding it very easy to stick with. I really don't have cravings for food I should not eat, and I love the food I can eat. I still have 30+ lbs to lose, and I can't imagine going back to heavy carb consumption after feeling so good with this woe.1
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2 years and 4 month @ maintenance.
5.5 of those months are via lc/hf.
I've maintained regardless of what I ate.
Knowing what caused me to gain, gives me the answer to how to maintain.
I ate too much.
I stopped eating too much.
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I am with @Koldnomore. I was 63 when I cut out sugar and all grains for pain management that by default put me in a Keto WOE. I have maintained for 18 months now. The cravings left starting after two weeks and have not returned so so far not overeating or overweight issues. I ate somewhat over 50 grams of carbs daily most of this past June and it was a very bad experience that I never plan to repeat.
Have a great trip.2 -
I've maintained scale weight within a range of ca. 10 lbs since November 2014. My body can fluctuate up to 8 lbs with max unlucky circumstances such as TOM, exercise water weight, carb bloat, BM, water intake, fasted state etc.
Personally I don't like the word "cheat". It implies it's possible to game the system (the body) without any consequences. The only person you're cheating on is yourself when it comes to nutrition. HOWEVER... I'm one of those in the group who's in the higher end of lowcarb range. I take full responsibility for my food choices...Both the good and bad. I've found taking conscious choices helps repair the guilt/shame cycle.
I still monitor closely for correlations of food choices, cause it keeps me accountable. It's all about experimenting and learning what works for ME. I came for the fat loss, but I'm staying on a LCHF course for my health, sanity and general wellbeing. The investment of being sorta lowcarb for avoiding feeding my body every 4 hrs, being cranky, hangry, inflamed, acne proned, BLOATED +30 lbs to a happier, more even keeled, never hungry person is sooo WORTH it to ME!
Not everyone will get such huge impact. We're all different. Good luck!5 -
Bravo!1
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Maintained since Feb 2013 with a bit of an upswing (10 lbs) over the past several months (emotional eating due to parental health issues - dementia). Still fit my clothes though, so I count it as maintenance, getting serious again about getting under 80 carbs net per day (I maintain easily at 100g) to get back to my happiest weight. In maintenance I normally do 1 higher carb meal 1x a week - planned in advance - usually for a special occasion out. I tend to eat low carb even when vacationing because that's what tastes good to me.2
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I generally vacation from food tracking and exercise when I vacation...which means I took basically the whole month of July off this year...gained 6 lbs...now I'm back to tracking, exercising, and losing.
Maintenance for me is not keeping the same weight every day, but keeping within a 5 lb range (usually)...so if I'm ok on the weight, then I don't stress about tracking every bite, or having a bowl of pasta or rice or ice cream or whatever. But, when the day comes that I'm not within that 5 lb range, then it's time to get serious and start tracking accurately and saying 'no' to the things that I know are going to put fat on me. For me, it's easy to switch between maintenance and losing as needed - that's not the case for everyone. You are the only one who can figure out if that's the case for you.1 -
I answered a few months ago when 1st posted but will update.
5/2013: Begin weightloss
5/2014: Hit goal weight
Maintenance: 3 years and a few months.
The vast majority of the time I monitor calories (~1500/day) and monitor macros (HFLC). Sometimes I don't track. Sometimes I stray a little on my food choices (vacations). All of the time, I keep my immediate food environment (home) stocked properly for HFLC.
This goes through my head frequently:
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I have never 'maintained' my weight. I've just always cut carbs to the bare minimum and done a few fast days and lost weight.
I have occasionally plateau-ed, but that's just a blimp on the progress. If I want to keep weighing what I weigh, I up the fat intake slightly. If I want to go down a bit, I eliminate fat to just cooking and natural food content, and don't add any extra.
I simply don't eat (simple) carbs at - all.
Down from a UK size 12 - 14 to a UK size 6 - 8. lost around 32lbs since late March.
Husband is down nearly 60lbs since late March, and going strong, no longer diabetic and from a size 38" - 40" waist to a 32".
To be honest, he's had more 'deliberate' carbs than I have, but we're different people, with different systems and different likes/dislikes.
As far as we're concerned, this is it, for life. And we love it.1 -
This goes through my head frequently:
Amen to that. I dropped from 325 to 245 pounds over 18 months of keto, had a simple hernia surgery that threw off my entire routine and i fell off track. It took a full year but I managed to gain it all back plus a little. Then came 6 more months of starting keto but not making it stick for more than a week or two... finally now I'm 7 weeks back on keto and feeling great... but yeah, this morning I weighed 327. Literally "back where I started"
Reading the stories from the folks that lost all the weight and have succeeded with maintenance is inspiring. I look forward to joining you in a couple years
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I reached my goal weight in late April, I had added some Intermittent Fasting and Extended Fasting to my LCHF WOE. I am staying between 3-5 lbs. below my goal. I love the foods I eat, so I just say no to the things I can't have and stay successful. So I am concentrated on the good stuff not the negative.
I had been eating the Zone 40c/30p/30f for a long time, gaining and losing over the years. This time I started with Keto, 20 net grams per day. Now I am more like 50 grams per day, some days slightly over, others I might even be under the 20, just depends on what I feel like eating.
I am a former artisanal bread baker, if I can give up bread anyone can. It was a passion of mine. Now I am learning to bake with nut flours and stevia, etc. It is fun and I can easily duplicate any goodies I want to eat. I do not have a sugar tooth, I am a salty gal. So desserts were never the issue for me. But chips and pasta can do you in, I eat pork rinds as chips and my pasta is zoodles these days. I don't miss the old stuff at all.3 -
I answered a few months ago when 1st posted but will update.
5/2013: Begin weightloss
5/2014: Hit goal weight
Maintenance: 3 years and a few months.
The vast majority of the time I monitor calories (~1500/day) and monitor macros (HFLC). Sometimes I don't track. Sometimes I stray a little on my food choices (vacations). All of the time, I keep my immediate food environment (home) stocked properly for HFLC.
This goes through my head frequently:
Amen, sistah. Words to live by, day in & day out.
I tend to hear the same old BS refrain, "you can't maintain on LC," but you're living proof to the contrary. Kudos.3
