Do you ever really think about...
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| Fri, 09-02-2005 - 11:35am |
...what it's going to be like when you reach your weight loss goal?? I know we all think about how nice it will be to wear nicer clothes and to do so many different things, but I realized I never really think about what I'll have to do to stay at my new, lower weight. Obviously I never thought it through, because I managed to gain back 50 lbs that I lost previously, even though I kept most of them off for almost a year before gaining them all back.
I know I say I want to eat healthier and be healthier, and that's what I do when I am trying to lose weight, but I cannot seem to find a happy middle ground between losing weight and maintaining. For me, it's always either been "weight loss mode" or "binge mode". I know that if I really do work on developing these healthier habits, then I should be able to maintain, but I wonder how hard that's going to be? On the plus side, I do know that I only let my guard down last time around and gained weight when I got comfortable (read: got a boyfriend), so hopefully I'm past any more "comfy" periods like that and when I finally find my goal weight I will learn to maintain, but I still have never really thought about it as having to "work at it" still.
My mother works at it every day. She lost about 80 pounds a few years ago, and she is always working to maintain her loss, still journals everything, still even follows her diet with few treats, and exercises religiously, walking probably an hour every day and strength training 3-5 days a week. I don't think I'll ever have the time or energy to devote to doing that (she is a SAHW) but I wonder if that's what it'll take? I don't think it'll be so hard for me to maintain my goal weight of 180-190 becuase she is about 5'9", and she is currently at about 135-140, a weight that has always been hard for her to maintain.
Does anyone else ever think about these things? I know sometimes it's a downer to think about them, but, realistically, if we never think about these things and never follow through on our "maintenance" plans, then we will continually be losing and gaining the same weight, over and over.
Staci
275/246.5/200

