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Congratulations--you're nearing maintenance phase! Now what?
For those nearing the end of your weight loss plan: congratulations! As someone who went through the same not too long ago, I wanted to share some lessons I've learned in "maintenance"--hopefully you'll have an easier time! First of all, my story After hitting 185 lbs and seeing a few side effects (clothes not fitting,…
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Backhanded success story (but better than nothing)
By mid-November 2014, I had lost about 35 pounds after ~100 days of calorie restriction. At this point, I was feeling pretty good about my progress (I had been at a "normal" BMI for some weeks), so I decided to eat at maintenance calories until I had a reason to do otherwise. Fast-forward to now and two holidays…
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21 lbs in 61 days (and some "advice")
I've been in weight-loss land before, but I've yet to sustain it for this long (or under this much school stress), so there's a silver lining to that. I've unfortunately fallen off the exercise wagon (looking to reintegrate it eventaully), so this has (mostly) been accomplished with calorie counting. A few things I've…
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Stick with it--even when it gets slow...
Medical school can be stressful. Especially if you weren't taking great care of yourself before. So I gained 10-15 lbs in a year and pushed into the overweight BMI range. Oops. I started trying to lose weight again this summer and started out pretty strong. On a measurement-to-measurement basis, I was losing a brisk ~2 lbs…
