Sunshine Singer

Great read, thanks. I've been thinking about the maintaining side and I'm looking forward to it. Think I will have a read of others threads who are already there as i'll be more prepared for when I'm there. Good advice, xxx

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Cambridge 810 (12st 2lbs)

Week 1: -3.5lbs (11st 12.5lbs)
Week 2: -3lbs (11st 9.5lbs)
Week 3: -1lb (11st 8.5lbs)
Week 4: -3.5lbs (11st 5lbs) 11lbs gone
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Week 7-
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Week 10-

trisha

great advice

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JSMole

Really useful post, thanks.

Jan

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kered

Brilliant post as ever.

Its thanks to you that I am maintaining 3+ months since reaching goal. Your common sense approach definitely seems to be more helpful than all the scientific hard to understand statements that we tend to get baffled with.

Thanks once again.

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Start weight 14st 10lbs. Lost 1 st 7lbs on WW.
Start Weight on Lipotrim 08/01/09 - 13st 3lbs.
Finish weight 26/03/09 - 10st 6lbs.

Start weight
12st 3lb
09/11/11 (-9lbs) 11st 8lb
18/11/11 (+5lbs) 11st 13lb
26/11/11 (-2lbs) 11st 11lb
03/12/11 (-1lb) 11st 10lb
10/12/11 (STS) 11st 10lb
14/01/12 (+4lb) 12st 0lb
21/01/12 (STS) 12st 0lb
28/01/12 (-2lb) 11st 12lb

Minerva

Thank you KD! As always you're an absolute star and inspiration!
I have definitely been working hard on using all your advice scattered around the forum, and in this post I see that I am well on the way to developing a 'healthy lifestyle' rather than 'forever dieting'.
I've been working so hard on re-programming my brain...! It I guess definitely takes the longest - and will still need to be done for years to come. However, it is working.
Before I did my LL diet: I used to not eat vegetables often at all, and all I'd eat was pasta. I LOVED the stuff. Not a day would go by if I couldn't have at least a bucket of it.
However, now... I can't live without vegetables. I don't need a bucket of them (have learned portion control and moderation! it doesn't take much to not feel hungry - what a revelation that was! very liberating too ). Also pasta: I actually don't want any. It's so BLAND and boring. I choose to go for taste and flavours rather than a "quick-fix" meal.

The other great piece of advice which I followed through from you was: the question. When I get a hunger pang, or a craving for something, or I just want to eat.. I always ask myself: "But Why?"
If I don't see a good enough reason to eat something (i.e. not hungry, just ate a meal, etc etc) then I choose not to have it and move on. Sometimes on rare occasion though: I give in just because I want it! We never NEED a cookie: but it's damn nice to sometimes have one! And the key is: have ONE. I like that.

I feel free, I feel like I have a choice. I am in control of food, I am in control of me. If I start getting 'out of control' I have the choice to step back and reassess the situation. There is no black and white: it's never about winning or losing. We never truly lose until we give up on ourselves, and I have no intention of doing that.


So again, thank you - and well done on... well... living normally! Let me rephrase: Well done on being an amazing inspiration to the rest of us - showing us that it CAN be done with some soul searching and brain-rejiggling.

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LizzMB

KD, thats super advice and i intend to follow it

i'm not at maintenance yet, actually just stepped back down to SS from SS+ for a couple of weeks before i have to go onto SS+...but i just wanted to start getting a feel for what its like being at goal!

I'm looking forward to 10st 5lbs A LOT right now!!!

xx

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Re-Start 17th Sept: 13st 12lbs
Current Weight: 13st 7lbs
Target Weight: 10 stone 7lbs

Bess

Just found this and re read it KD.
Even more helpful the second/third/fourth time around. Just going to print it out.

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Bess.

Cambridge diet
February 2009 -16st 3lbs
September 2009 -11st 12lbs

January 2010. 13.1, Tried and failed with CD all year, each failure made me feel terrible.

January 2011. No regrets for what might have been. (Who am I kidding?) Slimming World. 14st 2lbs.

December 2011. 14.8.

Targets:
14st
13.7
13st
12.7
12st
11.13. Have a think. (Faint with shock more like!)

MissPinky

Just started 'Maintenance' and remembered this thread, which I read a while back. And so I came back... There's so many thoughts going round in my head - hopes and fears, and intentions. Many intentions! I have willpower and a positive mental approach to maintenance - and there's this advice which I think I need to return to often

I will maintain, I will learn, I will try not to persecute myself when the learning goes a little awry (because it probably will, once or twice). It's scary right now, 'managing myself', but it's exciting too. Cambridge has given me confidence, and a good starting figure and base weight to motivate me!

I've learned from the plans - I've adopted a model from the last few steps that should stand me in good stead... and I have developed a preference for CD bars rather than the standard muck you can buy in any confectioners!!! Much more tasty and much better for you I'm keeping those up by choice at present, one a day to satisfy the 'sweet treat' tendency mid morning. I plan my meals in advance - with planning there's less chance of going wild. It's easier now than it was - I know what tubs fit the portions I need, so I simply fill them and cart them off to work every morning. It's actually quite a freedom, because I don't have the pressure to seek out and buy whatever in the time I have available at lunch. I breathe before I eat, and enjoy every mouthful.

And I weigh daily - which I always thought was bad/mad/dangerous. But it's not - it aids mindfulness and responsiveness to circumstances when you need it. It also enlightens you - you start to see your natural cycles and rhythms laid out before you (especially if you chart it!). There's knowledge and learning in that. And self awareness.

Thanks for this KD

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My weight loss/maintenance since reaching goal:
GOAL 2 - maintain!
...and if I lose a little more, then great!

(erm... lost a little bit more - oops! )



My CD weight loss to goal:

DONE!
14st3lbs/90kg
Lose a stone!
13st7lb/85kg
Size 16!
'Overweight'
Into the 12's
Get called 'skinny'
Size 14!
12st9lb/80kg
11st12lb/75kg
size 12!!! (unexpected bonus )
11st/70kg original goal reached
GOAL 1 (revised from 11st/70kg) - 10st 10lbs/68kg!

Bess

Brilliant post Miss Pinky, well done you, we are learning together.

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Bess.

Cambridge diet
February 2009 -16st 3lbs
September 2009 -11st 12lbs

January 2010. 13.1, Tried and failed with CD all year, each failure made me feel terrible.

January 2011. No regrets for what might have been. (Who am I kidding?) Slimming World. 14st 2lbs.

December 2011. 14.8.

Targets:
14st
13.7
13st
12.7
12st
11.13. Have a think. (Faint with shock more like!)

DisneyParis

Thanks for posting this KD.

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If it is to be, it is up to me!

Taking it a day at a time.

Get in the right frame of mind.
Stay focused.
Results on scales will follow.

You'll never regret a time you didn't cheat.

Each time you resist temptation it will be easier to resist next time. - Beck




week 1 - 8lbs
week 2 - 4lbs

kernowmum

Wow KD some powerful thoughts here. Thank you... you are an inspiration to us all!

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Aim to loose Two Stone By Christmas


Start Weight 12.13

Week One done
Week Two move to SS+done
Week Three

Staffdieter

Hi KD, thanks for this post which is the most enlightening piece I have read on weight maintenance. I am new to this and have found it difficult to find helpful advice, and so it is great to learn from your 'article'.

eternity

I've read this post a few times, it's really made me reaise that maintaining is different and a whole new challenge.
Thank you KD, you've really helped me. I want to keep my weight off this time and need people's experience to show me that it can be done.

P.S I hope you don't mind me posting on here because I'm not a CD person

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7 stone lost, now at target



Target reached 27/01/10

KD

No problem at all