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4 Year Anniversary Maintaining!

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  • breezybre_81
    breezybre_81 Posts: 4
    Congratulations, that is wonderful to hear.
  • Pamela_in_Progress
    Pamela_in_Progress Posts: 197 Member
    Thanks for sharing! It was wonderfully insightful. I'm not quite ready for maintenance yet, but this gives me inspiration that it can be done. Congratulations on your success! :flowerforyou:
  • Robin1117
    Robin1117 Posts: 1,768 Member
    thank you all so much for your comments--I'm so glad writing it down is helpful. When I first started there were just a handful of us maintainers and it's so great to know how many of us this site has produced over the last few years, and we have some great experiences to share.

    And Kimad--i have a theory about the "vacation" weight--and that's well within maintaining :)....usually my after-vacation trick is to NEVER weigh myself. Eat within maintenance limit for about 2 weeks and I'm usually feeling more comfortable in my clothes. I think it's the logging and coming into the site and being accountable that keeps us successful, even with those little blips....
  • Robin1117
    Robin1117 Posts: 1,768 Member
    Great blog! After 3 months maintaining (never was overweight until I got very sick 4 yrs ago and couldn't exercise) I realize that I can't be the same person health and fitness wise that I was before the chronic illness - I know that I will have to log food for quite a while because I love variety... If it was only about the same breakfast every day, and 3 or 4 different lunches and 5 or 6 different dinners, I could probably just go it on memory. BUT, every day for me is different foodwise, so I need to know my ratios of macros and where I am in my calorie goals. I'm thinkin' I will be logging for quite a while.
    Thanks again!

    This is so true! I'm so "regular" w/my diet and that's where I messed up, thinking I could just do it on my own last year...and seems like we all get a little more variety than we think...especially in the summer, with vacations and disruption of routine with kids, I hope you are feeling better and have a good routine going on maintenance --congrats and good luck to you!
  • TexasGal1
    TexasGal1 Posts: 65 Member
    Thank you for the post and the blog. You are quite an inspiration!
  • MzIrish
    MzIrish Posts: 11,921 Member
    Congrats !
  • Robin1117
    Robin1117 Posts: 1,768 Member
    thanks everyone! So glad we are all here to share w/everyone!
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