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I'm in starting today! Alcohol is way to easy for me to overindulge in. I overdid it over the holidays and need to give it a break.

When I'm on top of things, this is what I do, at the same time I make my grocery list so I know what I need to buy ahead of time. If I can't do it a week out, I try and pre-log the night before or that morning before breakfast. Breakfast and snacks are frequently the same thing, and lunch is the same things a few days in a…

I've started over multiple times, without ever getting very far. I think it like quitting smoking. Sometimes it takes a few tries for things to click. I eat at a pretty similar schedule to what you are planning, three meals and two (not three) snacks, though my snacks really are more like mini-meals. That, combined with…

If you can do it without wiping out a big part of your deficit, then why not? I wouldn't do it because I can put food away like nothing else, and it wouldn't be pretty. And I'd lose no weight at all.

LOL wut?

I think we do have a misperception about what is healthy. I was talking to someone once and I referred to myself as fat. At my height and weight, I'm morbidly obese. He protested, saying I wasn't THAT big, and held his hands out to indicate what he thought was fat (huge) and then mentioned people at Disneyworld as his…

I drink both coffee and diet soda, and haven't noticed any side effects. There isn't anything in either that would compromise your weight loss, or make you retain water like crazy. Both hydrate you, so drink it if you want to.

True. I forgot the cardinal rule of never dealing in absolutes. :happy: I used to be horribly pessimistic about my chances of losing weight, much less keeping it off. Then I finally quit coddling myself and being defeatist about it when I discovered I was insulin resistant, and was headed where I didn't want to go--I was…

Oh yes, I just think though that seeing 10% as the cutoff for success makes it easier to discount results when you are talking about long-term weight loss of large amounts of weight .In the AJPN study it looks as though mean maintained loss settled to somewhere around 22%. I actually don't think the odds for weight loss…

I think fundamentally the crux of the issue when people talk about successful maintenance is how much you keep off. I think a lot of people (myself included, tbh) see a 10% down from initial weight as not very successful, since in my case, I would still be still very obese with only a 10% maintained loss from my intial…

I think I object to the blanket use of "lifestyle change FTW!" more than anything. Of course, any behaviors that change constitute a lifestyle change. But just saying "lifestyle changes!" does no good in telling us anything. How do we help people maintain these "lifestyle changes" so that they can successfully maintain a…

Thank you for telling me about my defeatist attitude about how I know will fail. If I'm so convinced I'll fail, why am I doing this in the first place? Or am I stupid too? Understanding and accepting the magnitude of a task in front of you doesn't make you a defeatist. It makes you a realist. Perhaps it makes you…

I think we tend to think of the benefits of lifestyle changes on only weight, when there are significant benefits to lifestyle alteration on many other things. Diabetes prevention, coronary heart disease risk, just about every chronic health condition, you name it, dietary change and increased activity benefit them.…

Nope. I can't. If I could I'd be rich.All I know is what the evidence tells me, and that is that by far the majority of people who lose end up regaining all or a portion, no matter how they lose. Don't shoot the messenger just because you don't like the message.

But the loss isn't the issue. No one disputes people can lose weight. How many of us, using this place called MFP will keep off a large portion (say greater than 50%) of the weight we lose long term? That is the rub.

Not true. Many of the studies of maintenance done institute programs with extensive behavioral change components who are then followed after the program ends. These programs do teach behavioral changes along the lines of lifestyle changes that are discussed every day on here. And yet people don't maintain significant…

You don't need scientific studies or concrete evidence? Congratulations. Talk about confirmation bias. You won't give heed to any evidence that directly contradicts what you want to believe and you accuse the OP of confirmation bias? Oh, right, you won't look at any evidence at all, therefore it can't be confirmation bias.…

I thought you might find this one interesting. It actually is on the causes of regain after weight loss, so now when you encounter the denial brigade, you have something to send them (article is free on PMC). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24533218

And what is the success rate for making those permanent lifestyle transformations? Even in studies where there was extensive behavioral modification activities and extensive follow-up support, most people wind up regaining a significant portion of weight. If anybody is likely to be successful, it would be people…

This one looks at maintenance of large losses in bariatric surgery patients and NCWR patients. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19050676 Abstract OBJECTIVE: As large weight losses are rarely achieved through any method except bariatric surgery, there have been no studies comparing individuals who initially lost large…

Ooops! Wrong thread. I need to look at my topics more closely.

Here is the paste to a list of all of the research that has come out of the National Weight Control Registry, along with links to abstracts. Read. Enjoy. http://www.nwcr.ws/Research/published%20research.htm

Restaurants are my downfall. I always go in with good intentions and leave having eaten too much. That said, no bread or chips/salsa at the table is a good place to start. Appetizer instead of entree Split dessert if you have it at all Simpler food is easier to log. If you don't have nutrition information available, then…

Gotcha. Yeah, that was meant more as a meh/shrug sort of so why should they. Not meaning to imply anything else.

This article from 1999 talks about the origin of the "95% failure rate". I don't know what the updated statistic would be. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/25/health/95-regain-lost-weight-or-do-they.html ETA: links are helpful

???? You wanted an explanation. I gave you an explanation. I never suggested you were demanding everyone open their diaries. Should I not have taken you seriously, and not tried to give a thoughtful reasoned opinion about why some people prefer to keep their diaries closed?

I was looking through pubmed for some citations to address that claim, and am not finding much to back it up. One study I found that looked at fast, moderate and slow losers one a 1200 calorie diet + behavioral therapy + extended care had pretty unimpressive maintained losses at 18 months (max was 5 lbs or so for the fast…

Social conventions depend on norms that we are already seeing challenged through the internet and a greater willingness of people to share information. Those social conventions are no longer as strong as they used to be. I would question the strength of that social convention when I've seen plenty of parents talk about…

Some people are just, by nature, private. I get that. It isn't about shame, it is about not feeling the need to post every detail of your life or your experiences for other people. People have different levels of tolerance for openness in general, and about openness about certain things. Think of it this way: am I ashamed…

I agree. Not everyone who keeps a closed diary is because of shame. Assuming that it is is wrong, and not fair to those who keep it closed.