Flab-u-less-Flower

Congrats icemoose, wowsa over 2 years, that's AWESOME! Good humor by the way, less aware than before..

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icemoose

No I mean unconcious.

There are 4 stages to learning!

The first is unconcious incompetence.

That was when I was big, in denial I was big, didn't see it as any issue, didn't really understand how or why I need to lose weight.

Then I became conciously incompetent.

That was when I was big and I knew I was big, I chose not to be slim because it wasn't worth the effort to me.

Then I finally found concious competence.

That is when I lost weight with Cambridge, I did it by the book, conciously lost the weight and then for 6 months I maintained the weight by conciously watching what I ate (using tools like WLR etc).

Then finally nirvana for me which is unconcious competence.

I can now keep weight off and maintain without having to count calories and be anal about what I eat, I have found the natural ability to eat when I need to and to eat the right stuff most of the time.

As I have said before to reach unconcious competence I had to deal with the true reasons behind my weight gain, accept that being overweight was an effect from my life and not the cause of my life. Once I dealt with that stuff I suddenly found it much much easier to keep the weight off.

Mike

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Porgeous

I can so identify with the first three Mike, still hoping for the maintenance and Nirvana bit!!

Gx

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START WEIGHT: 14ST 1LB
CURRENT WEIGHT: 8ST 9.5LB



To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world

Porgeous x

icemoose

It'll come m8!!

And it does take practice!

A lifetime of getting used to eating what you like, when you like can't be broken in 2 minutes although the decision to break it can be made in a blink of an eye ;-)

After Cambridge you do need to find moderation again and using resources like WLR are key as you learn about food.

I always thought that reduced fat humous must be good for you as it is reduced in fat lol so I used to eat twice as much as if it was normal humous!!

And as my old office friend said to me last week, "I like chips and peanuts, and hence that is 2 of my 5 fruit and veg a day", bless his little cotton socks ;-)

M.

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KD

Which is what I did Pleased I did too.

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Flab-u-less-Flower

Wow, awesome icemoose thanks for making me understand your wordings, I hear you loud and clear. Awesome, awesome, awesome, how inspiring! People are very fortunate to have you as their mentor, go you! Boils down to mind over matter...

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Flab-u-less-Flower

Forgot to add, it must be awesome being in a state of blissful oblivion, CONGRATS to getting to that point icemoose!

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harriet2

wow you are all such an inspiration...cant wait till i can say 'im maintaining'

h xx

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purplegirl

I'm relatively new to maintaining - only 8 weeks gone... Seeing how well all of you have done and maintaining has given me hope that I can make this a permanent thing....

nicki26

starting refeed on saturday after losing 8 stone and have been a bit worried about the refeed,maintenance thing! you guys have made me feel so much better,thankyou....so inspirational ! get fed up with people saying 'you will only pile it back on again' it really gets me down...why cant people be supportive? they cant see that by being so negative they arent helping one bit grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

thanks again xxxx

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7th march 2008
start weight 17st 13lbs
114.05 kgs
bmi43

week 1 109.35kg

20/03/08 107.50kg
28/03/08 104.25kg
04/04/08 101.65kg
11/04/08 99.05 kg
18/04/08 97.40 kg
24/04/08 95.00 kg [14st 13lbs]
09/05/08 90.75 kg
22/05/08 86.07 kg [13st 11lbs]
06/06/08 82.02 kg [12st 13lbs]
12/06/08 80.01 kg
26/06/08 75.00 kg
17/07/08 70.05 kg [11st]
26/07/05 67.75 kg
02/08/08 65.25 kg
08/08/08 64.15 kg
14/08/08 62.75 kg
21/08/08 61.60 kg refeed time woooo hoooooooo

28/08/08 refeed week 61 kg
04/08/08 maintenance 61kg
11/09/08 maintenance 62.01kg +2.2lbs

18/09/08 maintenance 60.03kg-2kg
25/09/08 maintenance 61.04kg
01/10/08 maintenance 61.05kg