For A Lifetime...?

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  • harleygroomer
    harleygroomer Posts: 373 Member
    this IS a lifetime......... You may not blog or chart your efforts daily, but after doing it for so long you KNOW. This isn't about NEVER eating the BAD stuff--it is about moderation. This is not a diet--this is a lifestyle change--think of it that way and your life will fall together very well.
  • healthierishappier
    healthierishappier Posts: 3
    It may just not be a healthy weight for you.

    Bmi, body fat percentage, and other measurements are more sort of markers and averages than actual, proven, 100% accurate deciders for an individual. Some people are heavier than others (or lighter) naturally, and unless you diet forever, if you're below the weight your body maintains best at, you will probably gain easily.

    Do you feel healthy? Do you have a lot of energy? Are your hair and nails healthy looking? Does exercising make you feel good? Can you eat what you want until you're full? If not, than no matter how good you may feel your body looks, it's not at it's best health. Weight just isn't a puppet you pull the strings on until it's what you want. You should measure by what makes you feel best.

    Sorry if this comes off really cheesy/judgmental/bad. Best of luck.
  • JeanneTops
    JeanneTops Posts: 2,635 Member
    It starts with how you gained the weight in the first place, for how much and for how long you were overweight and how many times you lost and failed to maintain the loss. And how old you are now.

    For example, if you put on 10% of your body weight while in college, you're still in your twenties now and you lost it fairly rapidly, then you're probably just returning to eating and exercising habits that you had before and that you can maintain for decades.

    If, on the other hand like me, you put on over 50% of your body weight, you overate and binged excessively for thirty-five years, this is the third time, at least, that you've lost it, it took 18 months to lose it and you're stronger and leaner than you have ever been in your life, it's going to take a lot of mental, physical and emotional energy to maintain. And, yes, you'll need to keep doing all the hard work for a long time and work instead on seeing it as natural and not "hard."

    On a daily and weekly basis, yeah, your weight will bounce around a bit. But if the occasional letting go starts to happen more and more often, because you just don't want to keep up all the "hard work", then it's going to be harder and harder to pull the reins in. If it doesn't seem sustainable, then it won't be. So you'll either have to find what is sustainable or change how you see it.

    But you have to work out what works for you.

    Jeanne
  • pkw58
    pkw58 Posts: 2,038 Member
    It may just not be a healthy weight for you.

    Bmi, body fat percentage, and other measurements are more sort of markers and averages than actual, proven, 100% accurate deciders for an individual. Some people are heavier than others (or lighter) naturally, and unless you diet forever, if you're below the weight your body maintains best at, you will probably gain easily.

    Do you feel healthy? Do you have a lot of energy? Are your hair and nails healthy looking? Does exercising make you feel good? Can you eat what you want until you're full? If not, than no matter how good you may feel your body looks, it's not at it's best health. Weight just isn't a puppet you pull the strings on until it's what you want. You should measure by what makes you feel best.

    Sorry if this comes off really cheesy/judgmental/bad. Best of luck.

    Not Cheesy at all - healthierisha. Very nicely put. I wanted to add.. at my age 54, I log. I am on my second year of maintenance, and I would rather log daily. I need to log exercise as it helps me sleep thru the night. For years I tried to maintain between 140 and 150. Once I made the commitment to stick to an eating and exercising plan, I found my body weight was 128. Since every calculator out there says my healthy weight range my sex, age and height should be 138, I went to a doctor. He recalculated (after testing) a healthy weight range of 125 to 135. I mostly log my food to make sure I get enough in the right macros. I log my excercise to make sure I get enough. I monitor my sleep and guess what? If I eat the right amount, exercise the right amount, I get a solid uninterrupted 6-8 hours of sleep a night. Logging keeps me in check! Kudos to everyone finding the right method/weight/plan to optimize their well-being!

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