Don't relax it will sneak back up on you
kg5388
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I'm WEAK!!!!! Thought I had it down and didn't need to log everything. Ugh gained back almost 20 pounds. Be careful it starts out with a simple desert while out for dinner with friends then turns into ice cream at 2am.
Quess it's better to restart at 255 than back at 310.
Quess it's better to restart at 255 than back at 310.
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Are you weighing yourself every day? I find that helps me more than anything. I enter it into this site and onto my Excel spreadsheet every day.5
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you better believe it is. I lost 40 lbs and before you knew it gained back 15 lbs, depressing. I tell you it is a struggle staying on top of it, I did get it off and I now weigh every week.0
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Now back to weighing every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and logging every day.
I Had fell of the bandwagon and quit weighing or logging and it didn't take long to put it back on. It was fast just under 4 months. Knew I had put on a FEW pounds that would be easy to lose but did t realize it was that much.
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People think I'm nuts for logging over 700 days in a row, but laughs on them, at least I fit into my clothes. They think I'm suffering somehow, so not true! Some of us just need to do it
Good luck! 12 -
No such thing as diet - it is a lifestyle change. Have an occasional cheat meal, no problem, but always be cognisant of your diet even if you don't count calories daily.4
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I'm TERRIFIED of letting my guard down and gaining! I weigh daily, track daily, and go to WW meetings and weigh in once a month for the accountability. I've only been at goal for 10 months now, and it's HARD!!2
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cmriverside wrote: »Are you weighing yourself every day? I find that helps me more than anything. I enter it into this site and onto my Excel spreadsheet every day.
For me, this is the most important thing. I've been maintaining +-5 for about 14 years and regularly weighing myself has been the key6 -
agree! i have been around goal weight for coming on three years now, and for me, chasing the last 5 pounds helps really keep my head in the game. do i need to lose the last 5? nah, I'm good where I'm at, but having some goal out there keeps me engaged and proactive. logging, weighing foods, and weighing myself daily doesn't feel like a chore, it feels like part of what i do, i run, walk, go to the gym all for my health, its just part of it. The stats are grim about the number of people who successfully keep the weight off, i want to to defy odds.7
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This has happening to me as well. The sooner the better to get back on track. Weigh yourself regularly, track and keep all challenging foods out of the house. It is unbelievable how fast that weight can come back!2
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I'm just a few pounds away from maintenance. I plan to keep weighing daily. When or if I reach him top of my 5 lb range, I will log my food. I will continue weigh-in, measurements, and progress pics with trainer, on the same schedule as during the weight loss phase.
I made a very conscious decision before I started that I would have to change the way I eat for the rest of my life. I can change my eating forever & keep a workout schedule for health & fitness reasons, or wait til disease takes over then change my eating due to medical conditions & spend my time at doc office rather than the gym. It might sound too negative for some, but at 61 that's reality. 147 lost, 4 to goal.10 -
Happened to me too. This time, I'm going to keep logging well past meeting my goal. I was so excited to get to maintenance last time, I told myself I'd NEVER revert to my old bad habits so I didn't need to log anymore. Unfortunately, I ended up gaining back almost all of it.0
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YEP!
Years ago after I lost 80 pounds, I was 198 - what we called "One-Derland"...and I made that weight on Thanksgiving day.
So, to reward myself, I decided to just eat and do whatever all through the holidays. I gained 35 pounds by January 1st, and it wasn't even like I was pigging out every day. I was even exercising regularly.
That taught me a valuable lesson I never had to relearn.
The fight never ends.
My goals are for life, and I must never go back to being that other guy who was fat, sick, gluttonous and lazy.
That ship has surely sailed, and my fitness and health goals mean more to me than anything.5 -
One of the most valuable things I've learned in this Community is that, as @Return2Fit says, "The fight never ends".6
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I agree with a lot of the posters this is a lifetime commitment we have to make to ourselves. The way I look at it is almost like being an drug addict or alcoholic and stepping off the cliff is around the corner.
I'm firmly convinced this time it's different for me because I made a commitment to this website. Using the principles I learned from the mfp community I look at the weight loss process and maintenance in a different aspect now. I also realize that if I want to succeed and keep the weight off I'm hooked on this website for the rest of my life. Yes I will have good days yes I will have bad days but one or two good or bad days won't change the outcome as long as I maintain the success principles that I used to lose all the weight.
Just get back on the wagon you succeeded before and you'll succeed again6 -
Vigilance counts! I have taken time off from logging and weighing myself. First "break" I gained about 8 pounds and had to work for 3 months to get it off. Second break was shorter and I gained about 5. So I have learned (1) that I need breaks where I am not logging and (2) that they need to last no more than one month.6
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I think weighing everyday and using a weight trend app like Trendweight, is a hundred times more important when we're maintaining than it was when we were losing weight.
The quicker you catch a gain and nip it in the bud, the better.10 -
Everyone is different. I've been maintaining for 5 years now and have been relaxed for about 2 years now. Haven't gained any weight back and even lost an additional few pounds. I workout 6 days a week and have a very active job, though, which helps.
OP, it's good that you caught the weight gain early and are doing something about it now.2 -
Oh my gosh...so true! I first started my journey on here 12/27/11 and I was 173.8lbs. I worked hard and got down to 150.8 by 10/8/12 and was SO ecstatic! I felt great!!
And then I got comfortable...translation; lazy...and before I realized it, I had crept back up to 160. Then slowly made my way back to my original weight. And then
I surpassed my starting weight by 1.2 pounds and here I am basically starting over again.
I am trying not to get discouraged but every time I see that 150.8 pounds on my weight progress chart and see my 175 now, I just want to cry.2 -
Agh spent the past 10 years loosing and gaining!1
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I've gained and lost and regained over 50 pounds 3 times in the last 8 years. And the only reason I failed in the past is because I stopped doing the things that made me successful in losing the weight. This time I have actually reached goal and have maintained it for 5 months. Down 110 pounds.
Weighing 3-4 times a week is going to be key for me. If I start to edge back past my goal weight, I drag it back down again. I haven't yet figured out how to completely change the old habits, but I acknowledge the struggle and just keep on trying.
It's annoying that I will likely have to do this for life, but would be much worse to spend that life on a CPAP machine, whining about how badly my feet and knees ache. And that's where I was when I started WL this time. I'd rather spend effort planning meals and weighing myself than worrying about how difficult it is to hoist my aching carcass out of my chair at work and drag it waddling down the hall to the restroom.5 -
I've realized that I have a broken feedback mechanism for telling me when to eat or stop eating, and I'm always going to have to use external tools to manage that. I like how The Hacker's Diet puts it:
"Let's try to understand why so many people fail to keep weight off after struggling to lose it. The rubber bag tells us that weight gain stems from a very simple cause: eating more food than the body burns. Feedback explains why: people prone to overweight lack a built-in feedback system to balance the calories they eat against what they burn; their appetite doesn't tell them to stop eating when enough calories have gone in.
A person with a broken feedback system will always tend to gain or lose weight. In chapter [Ref] we've seen how Oscar and Buster, victims of incorrect feedback, gain weight simply by heeding the deceptive message of appetite. When Oscar or Buster go on a diet, the diet tells them what to eat and when. And, for reasons we now understand, it works! As long as they follow the diet and don't cheat, they lose weight as rapidly as promised and arrive at the end of the diet thin, happy, and feeling in command of their weight.
Then they put the diet away and rely, once again, on their built-in feedback system to tell them how much to eat. But it's still broken! Sure enough, their weight starts to creep upward and before long all the progress of the diet is erased. People with a tendency to gain weight need continual guidance about how much to eat. Withdrawing this guidance at the end of a diet, or couching the need for ongoing feedback in a manner that implies, ``You're a fatty, and to be slim you'll have to spend the rest of your life on a diet'' is as deplorable as lending a pair of glasses to a nearsighted person for six weeks, then removing them and saying, ``OK. You're on your own.''
If your eyes don't focus, you need optical correction to live a normal life, and you need it all life long. The fix that lets you see as well as a person born with perfect vision needn't be obtrusive nor prevent you from doing anything you wish, but you have to continue using it. If you happen, instead, to lack a built-in eat watch, you shouldn't feel any more guilty about technologically overcoming that limitation than your friends do about wearing glasses. Gotta problem? Quit whining, fix it, and get on with yer' life!"
Hacker's Diet (free!): https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/7 -
I am using the app "happy scale" because it shows your weight trends. (I am currently using it to lose weight) I will still be using it when I go into maintenance so that I can make sure I am staying on track. I weigh myself daily and input it into the app. It has a setting for lose, gain & maintain weight.1
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I am with you...I logged everyday for a year...Lost 55 lbs. Damn near goal. Then stopped logging. I thought I had it all figured out. Gained 25 back fast. Guess what I am doing again? Oh, side bar...I also have about 1800 miles on my road bike this year...I was SURE that I drop pounds doing THAT...Uh no....It's ALL food control.
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That's exactly right. Never relax that vigilance!1
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A while back, NIH did a 2 year study of the 5 most popular weight loss programs, including WW. What they found was that after 2 years, more than 95% of people who had lost weight had gained it all back, or more. Losing weight isn't the hard part. Keeping the weight off is. You have to be committed and attentive. MFP is a great way to do that.6
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AfterAllTheseYears wrote: »A while back, NIH did a 2 year study of the 5 most popular weight loss programs, including WW. What they found was that after 2 years, more than 95% of people who had lost weight had gained it all back, or more. Losing weight isn't the hard part. Keeping the weight off is. You have to be committed and attentive. MFP is a great way to do that.
Such uplifting and confidence boosting statistics lol
I for one, am determined to be the other 5%
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robingmurphy wrote: »I've realized that I have a broken feedback mechanism for telling me when to eat or stop eating, and I'm always going to have to use external tools to manage that. I like how The Hacker's Diet puts it:
"Let's try to understand why so many people fail to keep weight off after struggling to lose it. The rubber bag tells us that weight gain stems from a very simple cause: eating more food than the body burns. Feedback explains why: people prone to overweight lack a built-in feedback system to balance the calories they eat against what they burn; their appetite doesn't tell them to stop eating when enough calories have gone in.
A person with a broken feedback system will always tend to gain or lose weight. In chapter [Ref] we've seen how Oscar and Buster, victims of incorrect feedback, gain weight simply by heeding the deceptive message of appetite. When Oscar or Buster go on a diet, the diet tells them what to eat and when. And, for reasons we now understand, it works! As long as they follow the diet and don't cheat, they lose weight as rapidly as promised and arrive at the end of the diet thin, happy, and feeling in command of their weight.
Then they put the diet away and rely, once again, on their built-in feedback system to tell them how much to eat. But it's still broken! Sure enough, their weight starts to creep upward and before long all the progress of the diet is erased. People with a tendency to gain weight need continual guidance about how much to eat. Withdrawing this guidance at the end of a diet, or couching the need for ongoing feedback in a manner that implies, ``You're a fatty, and to be slim you'll have to spend the rest of your life on a diet'' is as deplorable as lending a pair of glasses to a nearsighted person for six weeks, then removing them and saying, ``OK. You're on your own.''
If your eyes don't focus, you need optical correction to live a normal life, and you need it all life long. The fix that lets you see as well as a person born with perfect vision needn't be obtrusive nor prevent you from doing anything you wish, but you have to continue using it. If you happen, instead, to lack a built-in eat watch, you shouldn't feel any more guilty about technologically overcoming that limitation than your friends do about wearing glasses. Gotta problem? Quit whining, fix it, and get on with yer' life!"
Hacker's Diet (free!): https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
I love this, and (as someone who has worn glasses since age 6) I'd come up with the same analogy to eyeglasses on my own. I'd love to stop logging, and maybe someday I'll be able to, but so far each time I've tried to stop even one day a week, the slow creep has begun.1 -
Yes same here, not a huge amount, but still well over the margin that I had set myself.
So back to logging again.
I'm going to Italy in exactly 5 weeks for a girly weekend away, so that's my motivation to stay firmly back on track.0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »AfterAllTheseYears wrote: »A while back, NIH did a 2 year study of the 5 most popular weight loss programs, including WW. What they found was that after 2 years, more than 95% of people who had lost weight had gained it all back, or more. Losing weight isn't the hard part. Keeping the weight off is. You have to be committed and attentive. MFP is a great way to do that.
Such uplifting and confidence boosting statistics lol
I for one, am determined to be the other 5%
And, to make it more uplifting...
Statistically I am the other 5%, as I did keep it off for more than 2 years. It was after 5 years that I've started sliding again. It's okay, I'll get back to it. but really, it's proof for me that this is for life.2 -
robingmurphy wrote: »I've realized that I have a broken feedback mechanism for telling me when to eat or stop eating, and I'm always going to have to use external tools to manage that. I like how The Hacker's Diet puts it:
"Let's try to understand why so many people fail to keep weight off after struggling to lose it. The rubber bag tells us that weight gain stems from a very simple cause: eating more food than the body burns. Feedback explains why: people prone to overweight lack a built-in feedback system to balance the calories they eat against what they burn; their appetite doesn't tell them to stop eating when enough calories have gone in.
A person with a broken feedback system will always tend to gain or lose weight. In chapter [Ref] we've seen how Oscar and Buster, victims of incorrect feedback, gain weight simply by heeding the deceptive message of appetite. When Oscar or Buster go on a diet, the diet tells them what to eat and when. And, for reasons we now understand, it works! As long as they follow the diet and don't cheat, they lose weight as rapidly as promised and arrive at the end of the diet thin, happy, and feeling in command of their weight.
Then they put the diet away and rely, once again, on their built-in feedback system to tell them how much to eat. But it's still broken! Sure enough, their weight starts to creep upward and before long all the progress of the diet is erased. People with a tendency to gain weight need continual guidance about how much to eat. Withdrawing this guidance at the end of a diet, or couching the need for ongoing feedback in a manner that implies, ``You're a fatty, and to be slim you'll have to spend the rest of your life on a diet'' is as deplorable as lending a pair of glasses to a nearsighted person for six weeks, then removing them and saying, ``OK. You're on your own.''
If your eyes don't focus, you need optical correction to live a normal life, and you need it all life long. The fix that lets you see as well as a person born with perfect vision needn't be obtrusive nor prevent you from doing anything you wish, but you have to continue using it. If you happen, instead, to lack a built-in eat watch, you shouldn't feel any more guilty about technologically overcoming that limitation than your friends do about wearing glasses. Gotta problem? Quit whining, fix it, and get on with yer' life!"
Hacker's Diet (free!): https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
I like this. A lot. Thanks for sharing! ^_^1
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