I've just hit 50 days logged in a row.

ellieco
ellieco Posts: 18 Member
edited February 2016 in Introduce Yourself
I'm not really new to MFP or to weight loss in general. In fact, I successfully lost 20kg a few years ago, but unfortunately put it all back on again and have been challenged to shift it ever since. I hit 80kg after a run in with cancer in my first year of uni, and getting better motivated me to change for the better and to try to learn as much as I could about how weight loss works and how to be a healthier person.

I got down to 60kg in about a year, and back up to 80 in the next. I tried to use my wedding last year to motivate me but only lost a couple of kilos. Keto worked, but was very difficult to maintain in the long term. Stress from my masters degree resulted in hitting my highest weight ever this Christmas and I've been steadily coming back down since. I think I may have found intermittent fasting to be particularly effective and sustainable and I've just got my fingers crossed that I'll keep it up in the long run and not slip back into old habits.

Would love to build a community of similar minded people on here going through similar difficulties, be it bouncing back from an illness or keeping on track :)

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  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    edited February 2016
    A couple probably-useless thoughts from experience.

    Support from other people will not reliably keep your hand out of treat jars in weak moments. (This of course is not a problem if your treat jars have packets of salt or pencils in them. But I'm guessing you don't live in a world where they're filled with zero-calorie items.)

    Permanent mindset changes generally work; temporary belt-tightening generally doesn't, at least not after the belt stretches.

    It sounds as if your challenge is to catch yourself when you lose motivation and start to pack the pounds back on.

    If Keto worked, but you personally found it difficult to maintain, despite the fact that millions of peope stick to it as a way of life, could you start working on a speech to deliver to your evil twin when she tries to derail you, then club her into submission before she pries the lid off the treat jar and tries to shove a cookie in your mouth?

    I have to think the poets around MFP would be happy to assist with limericks for the occasion.
  • ellieco
    ellieco Posts: 18 Member
    I don't find it difficult to maintain in the sense that I am very content to eat keto food indefinitely - however my wife doesn't like to eat separately all the time and it's really quite expensive when you're on minimum wage and student loans!

    Your advice is otherwise sound and I appreciate it. You are absolutely right, I basically fail at catching myself and those "screw it all!" times when I get to the end of my rope are my kryptonite.

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