Keeping The Weight Off

[dodly]

Once you’ve lost the weight, you need to learn how to keep it off. Most people do gain the weight back after they lose it, because they go right back to their old habits. As you get closer to your goal weight, you will need to start easing into the lifestyle that you will continue for the rest of your life. You will need to remember to keep cutting out the biggest sources of blood sugar spikes, including sugar, white flour, white rice, and potatoes. You will need to continue consuming plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy seafood, and other lean proteins. And you will need to continue getting some exercise.

Always remember that if you don’t continue the lifestyle, you are doomed to repeat everything you’ve just been through. You’ll have to deal with the pain of being overweight, the embarrassment you feel when you go out in public, the difficulty losing the weight, the aches, pains, and discomfort of being overweight, and all of those other issues.

That’s something you don’t ever want to have to go through again, right?
Never let go of the things you’re feeling right now. Never forget the struggle. Never forget the pain. Never, ever forget.

Once you let go, once you get past it and you move on, you cannot forget. If you allow yourself to forget what it was like, you’ll be back on that road to obesity before you know it.

It’s a good idea to keep a lot of photos of yourself before you lost the weight. Keep a journal of how difficult your dieting is. Write notes in it about how horrible you feel, how embarrassed you are, how your life is miserable. Keep all of this together and look at it regularly.

Yes, it will be painful to dredge up those memories of when you were so unhealthy, but it will help you stay healthy. The emotional pain you feel will be nothing compared to what your friends and family would feel if they lost you because you had a heart attack or stroke due to obesity, or the pain you would feel if you gained all of the weight back.

Keep eating healthily. Keep exercising. Keep living the healthiest life possible.

Never, ever forget.

 

[MakeMeHappy]

That's actually a pretty good idea.
I often give in to my sugar cravings and justify my overeating without
thinking about how I will inevitably end up feeling.
Which is feeling like an utter failure, fat and ugly.
I think I'll give the whole 'remember yourself at your worst' thing a go!
Thanks!

 

[ABBAgirl]

Hi there!
I have lost weight many times in the past, only I didn't have as much to lose then. This time, I finally, FINALLY believe I have gotten it right. The only way at all I am going to be able to keep this weight off is by WORKING OUT 5 X PER WEEK. Period. Obviously I also need to keep my eating in check, as well. The other times I have lost weight, pretty much as soon as I got to a place I felt good at, BANG! I started eating all the same crap in the same gigantic proportions. The other times I didn't work out, either. I have had to work harder this time, and in the process have made working out a part of my daily life.

Best wishes to all as we continue our journeys!
ABBA

 

[Omega]

Whilst there are a lot of aspects of your posting that I agree with - we must continue our hard work or we are doomed to gain weight - I think that I disagree on one central aspect.

All of us do not feel a repulsion of our former sizes. Some of us had a positive self image while big. There were people that were cruel and unkind - that made fun of our size - but there were communities where we felt accepted and comfortable. Be you big or small - dark or fair - not everyone will love you and some people will be cruel. I was apprehensive about going out near where I live in England - but there was a village in Greece where I never felt ill at ease. I would happily swim in the sea there. For many years I was able to be very big and moderately reclusive socially - but very succesful professionally. It was only after I had decided to pretty much retire (at age 43) and spend a couple of years in Greece that I became quite as reclusive as I did.

As it happens I always wanted to lose weight - but my husband has always felt comfortable as a big person. Although I would dearly love him to lose weight as I feel that it would improve his health dramatically - I think that it is positive that he feels comfortable at his current size. He tries to eat more sensibly to please me - but at the end of the day - the momentum is not really coming from within so he never makes enough changes to see any weight reduction.

I look like a totally different person to the way that I looked when big. I was of normal weight until a big weight gain in my twenties. I am of a normal weight again now. I look like what the young person would have been expected to age into - but they would have never expected me to take the route that I did. My father actually irritates me when he says that I look like his daughter again. I know that he means that I look like the young me - but I keep thinking "I was his daughter when I was big - anything that I looked like would have been looking like his daughter." Despite being unhappy with my size I clearly have a fondness of sorts for the big person that I was.

My point is that some people will have lost weight and not have all the feelings that they are horrible to look back on. In fact - in my opinion - it is probably healthier if they dont.

 

[dodly]

thanks for replay