How concerned are you abut gaining back?

I've done this rodeo a couple of time. I gained a lot of weight in college. Started working out. Kept it off more over a decade. Then I gained a lot of weight after foot surgery. Kept it off for over a decade. Had two kids in two years. Losing that weight now.

I'm not going to promise myself that a life event won't throw me for a loop in the next 20 years. However, I know I am capable of giving myself a reality check and getting myself back on track as needed. Until that happens, I know that I'm capable of maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Absolutely no chance of it happening. As I have got older it has seemed more difficult to lose. I am nearly there and if I have to still count calories for the rest of my life, I will, to ensure that the weight stays off and I stay as healthy as I feel right now. I never want to lose this amazing feeling.

While losing the weight I have ensured that I eat all of the things that I want to continue to eat and I have eaten at a sensible deficit from my normal TDEE. Therefore once I finally reach where I want to be, all I have to do is eat the same type of food and just increase portion size slightly and maybe add some additional healthier snacks than I used to choose.

Failing this time is NOT an option.

I don't fear gaining it back because I run 3 days a week, workout 2, and cross-train another. What I fear if not being able to burn the massive amount of exercise calories I am accustom to and then have to adjust for that.

Yes there is a fear there, but I am making this a lifestyle change, not a diet. I am changing the way I think about food for life, and creating life-long habits of eating healthy and enjoying exercise (which I have never enjoyed before).

I'm really not. I've deliberately taken this very slowly (and still not done) and don't do anything now that I can't see myself always doing. I've dealt with the mental and medical aspects that brought me to the starting point to begin with. I've developed a much greater self-awareness. I remember exactly what I felt like when I started; going back is just not an option.

Zero fear.

This for me too.

Maintaining your weight is easy, unless you only got ot that weight by doing something insane like 6 hours a day of cardio or a VLCD.

I'm not concerned at all. It's not gonna happen.

immensely.

I lost 60 lbs back in 2002/03... maintained the loss for 2 years but got pregnant. Pregnancy + Gestational Diabetes = 70 lb weight gain. I only lost 35 of it after that pregnancy. My next pregnancy was more reasonable because I started with the GD diet from day 1. Gained 26 lbs and lost all + 10 lbs after... then basically hovered around the same weight until I came back here last spring.

Since I'm not planning to have any more babies, I'm not really concerned about gaining it back. Having said that, if I became ill or had a severe injury it could happen. I'm not sure how I'd fare if I couldn't exercise as I do. I love food. Even now when I don't track I KNOW I have a tendency to go over.

It's not that I haven't made the lifestyle changes... I have, but if I stop holding myself accountable I could easily overeat.

I keep reminding myself, though, that I did reach a happy medium for 2 years after I lost the weight the first time... where I could eat anything I wanted and not track and I basically just maintained my weight. It was about 7-8 lbs up from my "goal" but it was a natural stopping point it seemed.

I have no fear of re-gain because as slow as I'm losing, I will have passed of old age by the time I reach my long term goal.

Unless,I have an accident or some unforseen health issue.

I am because its' already happening and I can't figure out why. I joined in May of 2011. I lost about 40 lbs by Thanksgiving. Gained a couple over the holidays but got them back off by Feb 2012, so my total loss was 42 lbs. I was just maintaining for a while but I wasn't worried because it was winter, and I have to do my "alternative" exercises in the winter instead of the ones I really prefer. And my kitchen was getting remodelled, so the indoor exercise area of my home was my temporary kitchen, and I was limited w/ what I could cook. But I figured maintaining was good under the circumstances. Figured when spring/summer arrived and I could get back to riding my bike outside, swimming, etc., I would lose the next 8 lbs for a total of 50.

I stayed the same all last summer or just gained/ lost the same 2 lbs. So, in the fall, I changed things up here to give myself more calories, only lose .5 lbs/week instead of 1, as I read that might help. It didn't. I gained weight. Then I increased my exercise level. Gained weight. I have not gained in SIZE - if anything, I might be a little firmer. So, then I thought maybe I should exercise a little less, eating less as well. Long and short of it, I've gained about another 8 lbs, so now I'm still just going up/down the same 2 lbs, but I'm around 33 lbs down instead of 42, and I'm further from hitting that 50 lb mark than I was a year ago. But still, I log in every day, weigh and measure my food, track my exercise. I'm glad I'm still fitting into my new smaller clothes, but it is discouraging...

sorry to hijack there...

living got cut off!

I managed to keep mine off for two years, but I've gain half a stone. Which is nothing in the grand scheme of things however, i wanna lose it and make sure it doesn't double that amount!

I'm far from goal but the thought of this scares me sh_tless! All that hard work and time gone! The sad thing is that to maintain this I'll have to be doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life, but then I balance that with the fear.

I agree 100%. People who say they will never go there again need to be realistic. We didn't want to gain that much in the first place. It can happen agaiin. There are days when I know that I could resort to the same old habits very easily. I envy people who don't give a second thought about what they eat and don't gain weight. Thank good ness for MFP. I'm older than most so sometimes I wonder if they will have a computer for me to log on when I'm in assisted.:ohwell:

Were you logging your food when you gained back? I know I wasn't. Am I going to continue logging when I reach goal? You bet I am.