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Alexmusic17

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starting weight was 202 lbs I was able to get to 188 lbs and got back to even more i'm currently at 210 lbs. How do I stick to it? last year I was able to get down to 170 and sadly gained it back and then some why is it so hard to maintain everytime I lose weight I seem to eventually get fatter.
 
The only time you fail is when you totally give up.

I'm sure an expert will answer you about the maintenance, but have you checked out your basal metabolic rate and the Harris Benedict equation? It tells you how many calories you need to consume per day to maintain your weight. I know that once I reach my goal I will still be counting calories and exercising to maintain.

For sticking to it, I think you have to have your mind in the game...I don't know what works for you but I personally am tired of being fat so even if I veer off plan, I still come back and keep going at it. We're not perfect and we can't allow ourselves to be overtaken by our imperfections. I wish you the best this time around!
 
In order to maintain weight loss you have to commit to making PERMANENT changes in your life. Going on a diet is only going to work as long as you're on the diet. If you then decide it's ok to go OFF the diet and go back to "regular" eating .. you'll gain the weight back.

Making long term changes to eat healthier and exercise is the only way to keep the weight off.
 
When you get to a weight level that you like, use the scale to tell you whether what you are doing is working or not. The weight scale is like a speedometer. When it is raising, it is time to take the foot off the "food pedal."

Do you what you did the first time to lose the weight and this time, don't stop doing it.

You can do it again.

Frank
 
dobner said:
The weight scale is like a speedometer. When it is raising, it is time to take the foot off the "food pedal."
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This is such a good way to describe it.

A few years back I lost about 18 pounds, but eventually it came back...and then some! (Then a lot of some actually).
A good part of the reason it came back was that I ignored just how quickly the "speedometer" was rising.

This weight-loss go-around, however, I used a very simple method. After I lost twenty pounds, I gave myself the option of adding two pounds back at any point...but ONLY two pounds. If I ever added three or more pounds back, then I didn't allow myself any days of going over calorie budget at all until I was back down to no more than 2 pounds over where I had been.

With that being said, the "speedometer/food pedal" analogy is quite accurate. Most people will drive anywhere from 4 to 6 miles above the speed limit posted on any road, but they will hesitate to go any faster than that for fear of getting popped by the police. Yet, someone like myself was essentially doing the equivalent of 32 miles over the limit (food wise), and it wasn't even bothering me. If I had worried about my body like I worry about getting a speeding ticket, I would have "slowed down" a long time ago.
 
Try to get away from this "all or nothing" mentality. One think we can count on is that each day is a new day and we have a chance to start over. I agree that the only way you really fail is to stop trying. You did not "fail". You have to find changes that you can live with long term and keep going back to.
 
Alexmusic17 said:
starting weight was 202 lbs I was able to get to 188 lbs and got back to even more i'm currently at 210 lbs. How do I stick to it? last year I was able to get down to 170 and sadly gained it back and then some why is it so hard to maintain everytime I lose weight I seem to eventually get fatter.
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It's simple, you dropped that ball, let it roll, did not bend down to pick it up, someone kicked it half-way across the floor, by the time you are ready for the ball, it is nowhere near you.

In layman's terms, you lost the weight, felt good about yourself, and started back you old habits, abandoned either the diet and/or exercise plan, and the weight came back on.

What we have to remember is that losing weight is not a one time thing, it is continuous, it never stops. If you go back to your old ways, the weight will come back.

The trick is to find a balance between your old lifestyle which caused you to put on the weight, and the new lifestyle which allowed you to lose the weight. You have to find the middle ground our you will forever be yo-yoing between old and new.
 
I have had the same issue...my problem was loosing the weight too fast and getting too confident about that. I am trying to take it slower now.
 
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