Unhealthy roller coaster

walking2running

Hi. My weight loss journey started when I was born. Honestly. I have never healthily msintsunted a weight. I’ve either been obese or dieting or gaining back the weight lost at one point or another.

I am 32 yo female. I weigh 180 ( or so) pounds. Lowest weight ever was 140 pounds just a mere 18 months ago, but I blew it big time. Highest weight was 240 pounds slsmost 14 years ago.

I am back to weight loss mode. Not sure how this time will be different. Not sure it will be. But I try

hipari

You can do this! However, assuming you want to keep the weight off and stop the rollercoaster, there's no such thing as "weight loss mode". There's just life, and choices you make. If you institute a mental set of choices as "weight loss choices" and then resume your old choices once you are at your desired weight, you'll gain again. Just log everything - the good, the bad, the ugly, and take it one day at a time. This is for the rest of your life, so be patient and forgiving with yourself.

jgnatca

How tall are you?

mulecanter

Start making some permanent changes--slowly. Easy stuff like switching from regular to diet soda for example. Change from cream in your coffee to black. Order chicken instead of steak. Park farther from the door. Little things that add calories you can cut out without too much pain. They all add up. Start changing your bad habits into good habits. They will smooth your rollercoaster.

Diatonic12

There is a pathway to healing your relationship with food. If you've already been through several cycles of thrill eating and dieting, relapse - think about sitting down with someone. Face-to-Face.

Many of us have ridden that merry-go-round. The sooner you can catch it the easier it will be for the long haul. Thrill eating creates a cycle of false rewards followed by pain. The pain of starting over and over again.

lizziebeth1028

When I was younger, I struggled with the never ending diet cycle. It's all mental attitude - for me, I was either all in or all out, there was no in between. Permanent changes finally started to take shape when I started to make small changes over time. Walking everyday, stop eating when you're full, have healthy food on hand, don't give up something you love (cookies! my fave) learn moderation. Think lifestyle, not diet. I generally follow a 80/20 rule...80% nutritious foods 20% whatever. And never let a bad day derail you!

dsboohead

I believe like the drug addict/alcoholic,food is our issue. This place is my AA. I will have to log for the rest of my life as a mechanism of control. Alot of people lose weight for events (not good enough). I'm doing it for my life....a better lived one. It cannot be a roller coaster but a part of your living life. Its your choice!

Diatonic12

Simply because it works. We proceed with one meal reset at a time. One day at a time. One week at a time. No crash dieting. We learn to delay immediate gratification. I created my own plan and I do everything on my own terms. I stick to my plan and that plan works for me. Maintenance is important for the rest of our lives. There is no such thing as the finish line.

walking2running

I'm four weeks in. It's been a completely different experience this time around. Today, I had to miss spin class. So I took a walk instead. No guilt. No regret. I felt like it was do-able, the whole weight loss thing. It feels more sustainable but I do miss seeing the weight drop consistently and sharply.

88olds

walking2running wrote: »

but I do miss seeing the weight drop consistently and sharply.

Why? That’s brought you nothing but misery. A long slow sustainable downward trend gives you more time to adjust to your new lifestyle. You won’t stay 140lbs living a 180lb lifestyle.

Diatonic12

walking2running wrote: »

I’ve either been obese or dieting or gaining back the weight lost at one point or another.

I am back to weight loss mode. Not sure how this time will be different. Not sure it will be. But I try

You have to make it different, completely different than last time. Forget about dropping it like it's hot. That doesn't last. With every dieting excursion we go on the skin becomes less elastic, resilient and less forgiving. There's metabolic blowback from dieting and rebounding.

Don't think of this as a temporary diet with quick weight loss. Keep tooling along, tracking your food, day after day. Find movement you enjoy and want to do waaay into the future. Remember that doing things we don't want to do all in the name of weight loss is the recipe for eating it back. You're not going out like that again.

Draw your line in the sand with some serious suxing it up, Buttercup. You cannot worry about the slow pace. It is the price we pay for putting ourselves through dieting excursions in our past. It's steep but when you reach your optimum setpoint this time, you're not going backwards. Go slow for the permanent win.

rosileem

OP, I hope you found solace in all this encouragement because I did. I needed it. Thank you all