Hi Twinny!
Welldone on your acheivement, getting to goal and going into RTM!!! Fantastic!!!!
THank you for the kind words. I appreciate it, and am so happy to have helped you in any way.
RTM IS SCARY!!! Make no mistake! It's a real test.
But - it's your time to learn to get it right, so don;t panic if you weight goes up a bit, stays the same a bit, or whatever - you are now starting to put into practice what we learned. We all fell off a bike the first time we rode - but we get back on. It's the same principle here.
I found the first few weeks, I was eating off the lsit, probably more then I should have too, but as its all pretty safe food, any damage was minimal.
One thing to expect, and its a shock - is we are so used to losing, that we have to change our mindset - we are now wanting to stay the same! But its a wierd transition. (I still want to lose another 7 or 8 pounds - if I can. Not bothered really - just want to have a go at getting to my lowest remembered weight. ANd if its only for one day - thats cool.
Be sure to plan plan plan. Have an idea of what you are having each day, so you don't get caught out.
I did not record my weekly ups and downs - I am not sure why. But I could find them in my book to show you how much I fluctuated through RTM, but at the end, I was a pound under my goal. So it all works out in the end - its the trigger weeks that are scary cause you just do not know how your body will react.
Don;t be tempted to have things off the list - the temptation is pretty great - so try and avoid that.
I found it easy to stick to pretty much the same things for the first few weeks. And I went a bit nuts when fruit was introduced. Watch out for bananas! High calorie and high carb.
The best advise I can give you, is relax, embrace it, and trust that you have changed....as have your eating habits. And it all falls into place easily.
I found, oddly enough as more and more food was introduced, I ate less and less. The first few weeks I ate HUGE salads, and lots of freuit adn veg - because "I could", but now - I eat very little most days.
Its a wonderful part of the journey and you will still discover things along the way. Its just a great time. Enjoy it!
Ask along the way if you get stuck.
Good luck hon, and again - well done you!!!!
XXX