Escapade
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Ive obviously got far too much time on my hands as Ive been thinking about this for a while now, my story is simple, was ideal weight to chubby all of my child hood, gained weight as a teen, lost it, gained weight early 20s, lost it, gained weight late 20's, got to 16stone, went down to 9stone, back up to 15st7, now back into 14's.
Ive spoken to lots of people, friends, work colleagues, family who have lost large amounts of weight... what surprised me the most is none of them seemed to do it by healthy eating, Ive only lost weight by going on really harsh diets, really restricting myself and hitting the gym hard, two of my cousins went from size 16/18, one went to size 12 and the other went to size 8, the only way she could maintain size 8 was by going to the gym every single day, eating very small amounts, mainly sticking to nothing but fruit and veg, even to maintain a size 10 she seems to really struggle and have to work really hard at it and that was somewhat the story for me to maintain 9 stone size 10.
So why is it we can lose weight but cant maintain it... is it normal to have to push ourselves so hard to maintain weight or are we setting our goals too low?
Ive spoken to lots of people, friends, work colleagues, family who have lost large amounts of weight... what surprised me the most is none of them seemed to do it by healthy eating, Ive only lost weight by going on really harsh diets, really restricting myself and hitting the gym hard, two of my cousins went from size 16/18, one went to size 12 and the other went to size 8, the only way she could maintain size 8 was by going to the gym every single day, eating very small amounts, mainly sticking to nothing but fruit and veg, even to maintain a size 10 she seems to really struggle and have to work really hard at it and that was somewhat the story for me to maintain 9 stone size 10.
So why is it we can lose weight but cant maintain it... is it normal to have to push ourselves so hard to maintain weight or are we setting our goals too low?