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Lately I’ve been thinking about, and working on, re-building healthy habits. What were the healthy habits that helped you on your journey? What habits do you still wish you could change? Probably the healthiest habit I developed for weight management was portion control. I got myself into WW because I mindlessly ate (and…

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Is food merely fuel? Is food something in which you can luxuriate, enjoying every bite - the taste, the texture, the bite? Is there a happy medium that allows you to do both? What is the value of food to you? Well, that's interesting. On one hand, I used to put my value of food above a lot of other things (including my own…

I really don't (or haven't) set short-term health goals. I'm a little bit resting on my laurels just weighing 75-80 pounds lighter than I did when I started weight management back in 2014. I'm also pretty preoccupied with several life changes that take up a lot of my time and energy. The end is in sight and I really would…

What, if any, dietary supplements do you take? If you take any, what do you feel that they do for you? Only Vitiman D - as a possible antidote to our seemingly constant grey, gloomy skies. I'm definitely prone to depression during extended periods of that. I think it helps--but I'm also working on doing my own attitude…

'Morning all. Back in the land of internet for a short time.

Thanks @Al_Howard . I won't have reliable internet access this week so if you guys will pitch in to take LTL wherever it's going to go, I'd appreciate it. --Kim This is a thread for everyone. If you're new to GoaD, or to weight loss, your questions and comments are always welcome. If you're maintaining, or a long-term…

Sun day? Not here.

Looking back, are there defining moments or events where your weight struggles began? Or, has your weight always been an issue, even back before you really realized it? If you went back and talked to THAT you, what would you encourage them to do to mitigate those moments/events? I was the so-called "black sheep" in a…

@88olds , weight training as in toning or building muscle? Seems like tracking might be an insightful sideshow, no?

Anyone still around?

I think I'm with @steve0mania and @podkey . In the short-term (i.e. month), I can and have done well with informed "winging it", with periodic weigh-ins. I keep the desire to maintain just above the slow lust for whatever strikes my fancy food-wise that I'm confident I could maintain over the course of the month. Looking…

@imastar2 , I find the subtle distinction between your "decision" and my "choice" to be noteworthy. When I started this lifestyle, I knew it was important to me, yet I refused to make it a battle. One thing that has helped me accomplish that was to realize I was choosing to lose weight, primarily for me but also for my…

What do you feel is the most important thing you do or can do to either maintain your weight or to lose weight. For me, I think it's the decision on a daily basis to commit to following my plan. Rarely is that a difficult choice for me nor anything I spend a great deal of time or hand-wringing on. Instead it's just a…

And so it begins...

Inching upward. Time to reign things in—even the 0-point fruit!

Some, but not a great deal on most days. I have noticed a tendency toward "rewarding myself" with food after sustained maintenance at or under goal sometimes. It's not an all-out pig-fest, more of "loosening the belt" a bit for a meal, treat or two. Sometimes I find myself almost laughing at myself putting the jar of…

Question: Do you accept the concept that your “body” fights against you LTL? In my case, I think it would be a combination of mind and body working against me. I'm almost 60 years old. The natural evolution of things would have me unraveling at this stage in my life without being mindful of calories in and out. My own…

Does food have restorative effects? I think good (more specifically, nutritious) food probably does have some restorative effects for me. Knock on wood, I'm generally pretty healthy and don't get sick often. I spend a fair amount of time outside, pretty much year-round and maybe that helps build my tolerance. I can't help…

Let's do it...

What is sacred when it comes to your health/eating plan/fitness? Good question. Maybe nothing--so I have to recommit at some level every day. Or maybe that's the sacred thing. Let's face it; I got here due to my old habits and behaviors. Right now, I don't see going back to them, but who does after having had some success?…

Keep working it, George! A win's a win, right?

Do you make a deliberate effort to reward yourself for reaching any of your weight management milestones? If so, what are they? Has your thought process or reward type changed over the time? I have not done this. I think for me it's part of trying not to make too big a deal out of the whole weight loss thing. It's…

Hi folks; make it a good one!

Turns out I am here.

How long have you been on your WLJ? How many WLJs have you been on? Do you accept the mantra that there is No Finish Line! I started my WLJ about five years ago this month, I do believe. This is my one and only time (I disregard the half-assed attempt at South Beach about 10 years ago. It was over almost the day after it…

Awesome step in the right direction, Greg (that you'd even want to is one as well). Rock on, buddy!

Up and at 'em (since 0500). Second week of chief cook and bottle washer duty while my partner recovers from her knee replacement surgery. So THIS is what it's like to be a housewife? OMG, how do you ladies do it???

What a great picture--your faces and smiles say it all! Glad you two had the opportunity to break bread and chat in person. Would love to do the same some day!

Staying in control, derailing, losing it mentally or any number of issues that make your losing or maintaining weight difficult. How did you? or how would you pull out of your slump if you were in one. ? Timing. Maybe it's a matter of semantics but I think of a slump as a sustained period of mindless eating or disregard of…