Hi everyone!
Sorry for the late check-in! We had one of my step-daughters with us for a few days and were out and about with her this weekend.
As of Friday my weight was down 0.2 which is 1 pound above my goal weight. I'm still a little in The Pleasure Trap after succumbing to some off-program foods that were brought in the house and eating out in restaurants. We have a few days of eating at home this week and then my other step-daughter will be with us this weekend. After that we have 3 weeks of 'just us' so it's a great opportunity to work on closer adherence.
Glenn - many congratulations on your weight loss, your pictures are great! The advice I was given about maintenance was to keep doing what you'd done to lose the weight. I decided to change from the MWL to the regular McDougall program and still aim to follow that, although I'm not always 100% compliant. Like you I ditched my larger clothes as way of letting myself know there wasn't an easy way back!
Yesterday marked 2 years' maintenance
I still weigh every day and my weight has stayed within an 8 pound range (3 below and 5 above), although the upper end of the range includes some weigh-ins on different scales or guesstimates while travelling abroad. For most of the time the weight has stayed within a 5 pound range. The 2 years includes some lengthy periods of travel abroad (which involves eating out in restaurants way more often than at home) when my weight tends to nudge upwards and when I'm at home it tends to drift back down.
My goal weight was set fairly arbitrarily. After setting and achieving three weight loss goals, there was definitely a feeling of 'diet-fatigue' after 9 months of MWL so I decided not to set another weight loss target. Oh, and I wanted wholemeal bread back in my life! The goal weight of 125 is roughly what I was in my late 20's and 30's, giving me a BMI of 21.3 at 5 foot 4. I think I was about 10 pounds lighter in my early 20's, but was definitely less muscly then! I may set another weight loss target at some point just for fun!
Recently, I've been setting myself monthly challenges as 'experiments'. The exercise challenge has been to achieve a set number of steps and calories burned each day and to try new activities so to help me find out which exercise I like best. I've also been scoring my daily food intake using the McD regular program checklist which is proving helpful in noticing my problem areas.
Mark - thanks for mentioning the curry burgers, I've not tried them either!
Best wishes to all x