Need Motivation and support

HI. I am 67 years old. Always been overweight. Had kidney cancer in 2008 and a kidney removed. Had two non cancerous brain tumor surgeries, one in August 2014, one in Nov. 2014. Weighed 330 in winter/ Spring of 2006 - lost my job after 18 1/2 years due to company closing. Lost second job in 2015 due to brain tumors. Have worked 3 part time jobs until last August. have worked on juicing, low carb, exercising and intermittent fasting. Am now down from 330 to 242 and am struggling the last few weeks. I would like to hear some ideas that others have used to help them get through the "hump". What works best for me that I have found is intermittent fasting and low carb, I just have a few days each month that I eat the wrong thing and too much. After all these years I can preach to the choir all the rules, I just need the choir to preach back to me. Thanks.

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  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    How are you struggling?
  • 88olds
    88olds Posts: 4,542 Member
    edited February 2021
    Good going. Agree that some details of how you see the problem would help. I’ve lost 100 lbs and have been maintaining for years. Maybe this might help you- I’ve had to reinvent my plan about 4-5 times to get to my goal weight and stay here. From my own experience and years of reading weight loss message boards, following one plan all the way down would be pretty unusual. There just aren’t very many human undertakings that track on a straight line.

    Plus, if we have success doing things one way but then that quits working, there’s a tendency to double down on the previously successful strategy. After being stuck for years at about 2/3 mark, in desperation, I joined Weight Watchers. Not a WW plug. WW was just calorie counting dressed up for copyright protection. I even went to the meetings. It worked. But something that always got me at the meetings was the revolving door. A steady stream of people coming back having gained all or sometimes even more of everything they had lost. And most of them would say the same thing- I know what I have to do. I thought that odd. Because it seemed to me, that although I had lost about 60-70 lbs from my all time high of 285 lbs, I didn’t have a clue as to how to get under 215 lbs. How could people who couldn’t maintain know what to do? I think they usually meant they knew how to beat themselves into losing. Not a good long term strategy.

    You don’t say, but do you count calories? It works. I’ll spare you the CC pitch and just urge you to keep trying and experimenting until you find something that works. Follow that to where it takes you. Then, if need be, find something else. I think weight loss is all about problem solving and persistence. Never quit.

    PS. Sorry I can’t help myself. Although by the time I hit the big plateau, my diet was a pretty good version of “healthy eating” my portions were to big. Don’t think I would have ever straightened that out without using a food scale. As soon as I started that the problem was obvious.