Mandatory 100 pounds lost celebratory post (pics)

AnninTX wrote: »

Congratulations. Any hints for someone starting over to lose 150lbs more?

For me two things happened.

The first is I was diagnosed now with diabetes, being a former nurse, I literally could see what a terrifying future I had ahead of me while I aged and something in me just said this is enough.

The other thing I did was built myself an accountability loop where I would simply measure rather then set goals. My promise to myself was this, the only way I fail is if I fail to honest and accurately log my food each day and weigh myself each morning.

I bought a food scale I still use it.

I have gone over calories many many times but always logged it anyway. And weighed each morning. Just logged and moved on.

I found this made me a lot more mindful. All other changes flowed naturally from there.

If I go off the rails a few days I continue to log food and weigh myself honestly. I have done that for over 200 days straight now. It really changes how you approach your diet mentally.

Mail4mand wrote: »

This makes sense to me. If I track calories to stay under goal i struggle because I feel restricted i think. Whenever I've just measured then added up at the end of the day I'm often well under goal and always surprised. I like your post thank you am going to try the measure only method

I use the mental memory trick of HACC

Honestly Accurately Count Calories

And weigh each morning and log that too.

There is no failure except a failure to log, takes a lot of pressure off and builds mindful habits instead.

For example something I do is I look up menu before I go to a restuarant and log my food at home first, then I go and order the same thing when at the table.

Removes the stress and temptation Id normally feel as by logging it I sort of already committed to it and it would be a bigger pain to remove and relog other choices anyway.