Tracey's Maintenance Journal - Year One
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3 feast days is (imho) too much, I personally feast 2 days (weekend). In my maintenance plan I do a 48 water fast period (Sunday evening to Tuesday evening), the rest is OMAD. I check my weight Sunday evening and Tuesday evening. Usually there is a normal difference of 1.5kg (3.3 pounds). If my lowest weight (Tuesday evening) is too low (in my case lower than 95kg), I try to eat food combination that increase weight (fat+carbs). If the weight is higher than 95kg I eat less carbs. This way I maintain my weight very strict, even my meals are not low quantities/calories.
btw, nice food images
PS Do you have any before/after pictures ?0 -
I think you’re doing pretty darned good considering you just dealt with Thanksgiving!! The smaller plate is an awesome idea, but be careful you aren’t too hungry afterwards or it could backfire the next day...0
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tlblanksfit wrote: »Today's small plate OMAD meal. Meal eaten at 4:00pm
I actually got a good amount of food on the smaller plate. I may just continue eating off of this plate for a while.
I took a picture of my two plates so that you can see the difference between my normal plate and smaller plate.
The small plate looks about the size of the plate Joe uses and it looks like plenty of food so as long as your satisfied then I say use it 0 -
00000liviu00000 wrote: »3 feast days is (imho) too much,
I definitely agree. My maintenance calls for two feast days (Saturday and Sunday) same as you. Since starting maintenance, I have failed in following my plan, but I am not giving up and will get back on track with this new week. I have decided that starting this week with tomorrow, I will be doing water fast days on Mondays and Thursdays.
I was not going to put it on here because it has seemed every time I declared I was going to do something, I somehow managed to sabotage myself and not do it. But if I have to white knuckle through it until it comes naturally, I am going to do it because I refuse to go back to where I was and am determined to maintain my weight this time.
I like how Brenda put her plan out there and placed check marks after each day so I am going to do that this week and maybe it will keep me more accountable. I just have to figure out how to do the check marks
Monday - Water Fast
Tuesday - OMAD
Wednesday - OMAD
Thursday - Water Fast
Friday - OMAD
Saturday - Feast
Sunday - Feast
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Be careful with those water fasts. As long as you can handle it and it doesn't backfire, that should work for you. I have to keep everyday about the same and go for little deficits each day with very few feast days or I will gain. My maint plan is a 16:8 each day with a salad lunch and that works well for me. To lose I do 20:4 each day. If I try to be too aggressive, I will usually splurge the next day. Whatever works for you though do it!2
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Tracey I have a galaxy phone and I found the check mark under my emojis on my key board 0
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Thanks Brenda, I have a galaxy phone as well so I should be able to find it.1
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I don't think I will have a problem with the one day fasts. If they were back to back that might be a problem. I have class in the evenings on those days so I will be busy and should be able to keep to the fast.0
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Good luck with your new plan!
I feel like I may have to follow something similar to what you do given our sort of similar weight loss patterns, so I am taking notes!0 -
I hope to get everything worked out within this first month of maintenance so that I have my lifetime plan. Something that I just do and know my weight will maintain and will not be something I have to think about constantly.1
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My newly adjusted maintenance plan which will start today.
Monday - Water Fast
Tuesday - Midday OMAD meal eaten between 11am and 1pm
Wednesday - Evening OMAD meal eaten between 5pm and 7pm
Thursday - Water Fast
Friday - Midday OMAD meal eaten between 11am and 1pm
Saturday - WIW-WIW
Sunday - WIW-WIW
WIW-WIW = Whatever I Want - Whenever I Want2 -
WIW--WIW I love it!!!0
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I decided to get away from going with feast days because it makes you think of pigging out when all you really want to do is eat what you want when you want. I wouldn't consider it feasting having breakfast on a Saturday. I just ate what I wanted when I wanted it. So I am going with that for now on.1
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tlblanksfit wrote: »I decided to get away from going with feast days because it makes you think of pigging out when all you really want to do is eat what you want when you want. I wouldn't consider it feasting having breakfast on a Saturday. I just ate what I wanted when I wanted it. So I am going with that for now on.
That's the same reason why I changed my splurge days to EAD (Eat All Day) but now that I think about it it seems like I'm eating ALL day long
Oh heck I'm just gonna call it a splurge day like I have been 
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Splurge day is good. Because you are basically splurging (eating freely) when you eat what you want when you want.1
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Monday - Water Fast✔
Tuesday - Midday OMAD meal eaten between 11am and 1pm
Wednesday - Evening OMAD meal eaten between 5pm and 7pm
Thursday - Water Fast
Friday - Midday OMAD meal eaten between 11am and 1pm
Saturday - WIW-WIW
Sunday - WIW-WIW
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I see you found your ✔ 0
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I did thanks to you1
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Today's midday meal. The last of the thanksgiving leftovers.
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Yummmm. I think I will make some macaroni and cheese this weekend. How was your fast yesterday?
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Macaroni and cheese is the perfect food IMO.... I think I might just make some this weekend too...0
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I did very well on my fast yesterday and was down 3 pounds this morning. Today not so much. My OMAD day turned into a splurge day.0
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Monday - Water Fast✔
Tuesday - Midday OMAD meal eaten between 11am and 1pm AND evening splurge (2 Salt and Vinegar Wings/Taco Salad/Cashews/Sweet Potato Pie/Cereal)
Wednesday - Water Fast
Thursday - OMAD
Friday - OMAD
Saturday - WIW-WIW
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I make a macaroni and cheese (my wife makes it usually now) that my kids call "the best macaroni and cheese in the world"! It is a tomato based mac and cheese with meat in it. My mom used to make it and I got the recipe from her. It is one food that I almost cannot get full on. I can make a huge huge pan of it and can probably eat 8-large bowls of it if I wanted (I know I've done at least 5-large bowls of it before). I crave the stuff when I start eating it. That stuff is deadly for me. I have no limit with it! I'm a little like that with good pizza also but not as much.1
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tlblanksfit wrote: »I did very well on my fast yesterday and was down 3 pounds this morning. Today not so much. My OMAD day turned into a splurge day.
Just shake it off, my 2MAD turned into a Splurge day yesterday and I was up 3 pounds...The best part if maintenance is knowing that after a planned or unplanned splurge day the weight will come back down after getting right back to OMAD...You will be fine 1 -
Do you think water fasting is backfiring? I wonder if it would be better for you to just eat everyday. Sometimes I can fast with no problem, but then other times, they trigger a binge. Maybe small plate OMAD every other day and WIW2 on the weekends might work?1
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I think it was more the early high carb meal than the fast. I did not fast today. I was off today and was hanging out with the hubby. We went to chik fil a and I had a grilled chicken club without the bun and water around 10:40. Around 3:30 I had my chocolate kale shake and around 5:45 I had some homemade hot honey wings and yellow rice with vegetables.
Was under my calories for the day.
I am not going to forecast my eating plan anymore since I never seem to be able to follow it anyway. I will just take it one day at a time and do my best to make the right choices.2 -
i think some good principles are:
don't start eating tell you get fairly hungry
don't eat refined carbs early in the day - will set off bad things for me
make sure you get adequate protein and veg and fruit (I think fruit is good for us)1
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