One Year Later

You look so much younger and fitter. What a lovely wife to remind you how far you've come.
Can I ask: the way you eat now, is it still for weight loss or will it work for long term maintenance?

Right now it's still for weight loss. My goal weight is about 3 lbs away from where I am now, so I'm still working to get there. Once that happens, I change my goals on MFP to maintenance and eat for that. I am probably not the poster child for healthy eating as I've lost the weight eating what I wanted but in moderation. I hardly ever eat fast food, though, and I try to never go over 850-900 calories in one meal (most of the time I stay below 600 per meal). Right now MFP gives me 1590 calories a day, so I'm looking forward to being able to increase that once I'm maintaining.

I really think that I've only gained maybe 3 times at weigh in over the whole MFP journey so far. It takes a lot of patience with yourself and tracking but it's possible. I can say that, when I started tracking, I'd eat over half my daily calories in one meal (ie. pizza) and then eat something small for the rest of the meals. Now I try to keep my meals small and have 1-2 snacks per day (so eating throughout the day.

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Thanks for the thoughtful words everyone! The MFP community has certainly gotten me to this point! Thank you!