Greetings from Doug

[douglerner]

I'm a 53 year old guy living in Tokyo who has gone through multiple huge weight losses and rebounds over the years.

As recently as 2007 I had stayed on a healthy (low calorie plus moderate exercise, more or less based on Weight Watchers) diet for about 700 days, lost over 100 lb and gotten to within 15 lb or so of my goal weight, reaching an adult lifetime low of 79.8 kg.

Then over the last couple of years I, yet again, regained it all and I'm back to about 125 kg.

(sigh)

I know *how* to lose weight, but I've gone through this at least 6 or 7 times in my life. Each time I'm *sure* I finally tweaked my method so as to find a way to stay on my diet forever.

While dieting I never feel deprived or feel that I need excessive will-power. But at some point, about two years into the diet, something changes and I fall off the wagon and, like watching a car wreck in slow motion, I gain everything back. Even while realizing it is happening.

I know I have to lose weight again, get my blood sugar under control again, etc. I just can't seem to "get back into it" yet one more time.

But when I stumbled across the site I thought I'd register and say hello. It seems like a reasonable site with some nice people and useful posts.

I don't use aliases on the web (I don't have a good enough memory) so people can Google me and see all the various diet posts I've made over the years in places like the weight watchers groups, Atkins groups, my own blog, etc.

I hoping to find my way back into trying again, but am in "not confident, not fully motivated" mode right now. But I know I need to do something. Yet again.

Yoroshiku!

Doug Lerner,
Tokyo

 

[Korrie]

glad to have you onboard. i hope your not here to spam though as spammers get banned from the forum. Welcome to WLF, let me know if you have any questions

 

[douglerner]

glad to have you onboard. i hope your not here to spam though as spammers get banned from the forum. Welcome to WLF, let me know if you have any questions

Thank you for your greeting.

I hope you're not here to spam either.

(What a way to greet somebody!)

doug

 

[butterfloyds11]

Hi Doug,

Wow...that was a strange greeting! haha. Anyway, I know all to well what you mean about the whole thing happening in slow motion. It's like you know you are going to completely crash, but there is nothing you can do to stop it! I lost 42 lbs and have gained back nearly 15. I am can see it all piling on again, but this time around I decided to take action before it ALL came back. Baby steps is what I call it. I started walking and doing small things and then adding on from there. I look at it as 15 minutes on the treadmill or any type of workout is better than nothing. I mark it on the calendar daily to keep track. If you do nothing else, start with 15 minutes a day. I wish you the very best and we are here to support you!

 

[douglerner]

Hi Doug,

Wow...that was a strange greeting! haha. Anyway, I know all to well what you mean about the whole thing happening in slow motion. It's like you know you are going to completely crash, but there is nothing you can do to stop it! I lost 42 lbs and have gained back nearly 15. I am can see it all piling on again, but this time around I decided to take action before it ALL came back. Baby steps is what I call it. I started walking and doing small things and then adding on from there. I look at it as 15 minutes on the treadmill or any type of workout is better than nothing. I mark it on the calendar daily to keep track. If you do nothing else, start with 15 minutes a day. I wish you the very best and we are here to support you!

Thanks for your message, Butterfloyds. That's what I call a normal greeting.

That's great you lost 42 lb! And having only gained back 15 it's the perfect time for you to catch things before the rebound goes any further.

In my case, I think it started with lying to myself about how many calories were in this or that to justify eating more. Like estimating a Panera bagel at 150 calories (it's only like 2 slices of bread, right?) even though there are over 400 calories in their bagels! Little things like that started adding up until my daily journal was literally not worth the paper it was written on any more.

I know, for myself, that I need to track everything I eat or nothing works. And do honest counts. I just need to get back into it some way or the other.

Thanks again for your message,

doug