Actually, RawrGirl thinks the 80/20 plan sounds pretty good. She never thought about it that way, but that is pretty much how she's been doing her VLCD. 5.6 days = 80%, and 1.4 days = 20%. Sunday thru Friday afternoon is RawrGirl's 80%, and Friday evening and all day Saturday is her 20%.
According to the one-year 15% less rule, when you are at your "ultimate" goal weight, you should be eating 1190 calories per day 80% of the time (plus more when you add in the exercise, so on kickboxing or Shred days, probably like 1500), and then one full day plus one extra meal, you can eat whatever you want (your 20%).
Since you are currently trying to lose just a tad more, RawrGirl would think that sticking to 1190 even on days you exercise should do the trick (until you reach goal). Then, after the first year, you should be able to eat 1390 calories a day (if 139 pounds) without exercise and still maintain, and 1700 on exercise days.
Her only other advice is to put a cap on your 20%. RawrGirl plans on doing this herself on maintenance, as she realized she tends to eat over 4000 calories in one day, esp if she goes to a particular restaurant on date night with Prince Charming.
[Example: RawrGirl googled that restaurant's nutrition and realized she usually consumes 2700+ calories there (dinner and dessert). Being the weekend, she'd probably already consumed close to 1000 (500 for breakfast and 500 for lunch, sometimes more), bringing her up to 3700. She would then come home and consume another 500+ calories in vodka while cuddling and watching a movie with Prince Charming, for a total of 4200.
So she choose the cap of 2500 calories for maintenance (and her once-a-month treat night during her diet).
At all other restaurants she can order what she usually does and still stick to her cap of 2500 as long as she limits the amount of buttered bread she consumes (and if she keeps breakfast and lunch to a combined total of 300). But at this particular one, she had to alter what she would order OR skip a regular dessert and have her low-sugar chocolate when she gets home.
If it were a rare occurrence (2x a year), it probably wouldn't matter that much, but as she and Prince Charming usually go there (or some where else or get takeaway, etc.) once a weekend when RawrGirl is not on a diet, she felt it wise to cap her weekends/20%.]
Boy, RawrGirl feels long-winded today, lol. Sorry about that! But she is glad to know that her obsessive charting, graphing, diet books notes, and online research is coming to good use by helping her friends!
As for your pictures:
Absolutely amazing! Well done!!!
It's so motivating to be able to really see the changes, isn't it!
Go Squishy!!!
