Now Vs The Future

I think stopping planning and starting doing, could be a good way forward for you. If you're ready, you're ready. If you're not, you'll know.

Both options could be good for you. The only person who knows whether you're ready, is you.

There's no right or wrong. I took several years before I was ready to do the necessary. Good luck.

You could set your calories to maintenance and work on your logging til Jan 1st. Really focus on getting accurate with your cals, then start implementing a deficit, about 100 cals at a time until you are at the recommended deficit for the rate of loss you selected.

What is going to change now vs 2017? There will always be external forces.

Maybe set some motivation goals now (i.e. drink 8 glasses of water, walk 30min twice a week) set small goals and DO NOT worry about weight loss just activity. Then get focused on 2017.
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The time is going to pass anyway. Why would you not spend the rest of 2016 trying to be more active and weighing/logging your food? Or just eat a smaller deficit. Set your goal to 1/2 lb per week. You'll be losing slowly, but you'd still be losing, and as you get used to eating less, you could increase your deficit later on. Or you can just keep eating the smaller deficit. It's completely up to you.

Keep in mind that you do not have to completely overhaul your diet to lose weight. You don't have to become a marathon runner or a Zumba master or Jane Fonda. You don't have to give up everything that you love, and "eat clean" or low carb or cut out bread or dairy or butter or cheese. You can eat the things that you love - just eat a bit less of it.

ogtmama wrote: »

I lost 30 pounds fairly quickly this summer and quite frankly I'm a little tired of the deficit...what I've decided to do is take a whole year to lose the next 30.

I've set my goal to a pound a week but so long as I don't go over maintenance I don't sweat it. That way I figure on good days when I feel strong I have a solid deficit to shoot for but on those days when I get to the end of my calories before the end of the day, I have a cushion of about 500 extra calories before I even hit maintenance.

Don't give up, ease up

It sounds like you restricted too severely. Set up your numbers in MFP and go for 0.5 to 1 lb per week. Just think of all the progress you'll make in the next year!

Just keep trying the benefits are only good and just stopping doesn't help yourself. We all mess up from time to time and miss a count or don't go to the gym or something. You just need to quit beating yourself up, if you overeat or don't weigh or something just get back on the horse and keep going.