The Secret to Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

So I am blogging by accident. I intended to set up a 3FC blog, but never got around to doing it. It would take too much time. I have too much going on in my life to devote to blogging (although I do have a family blog I loosely keep updated…it’s mainly just a picture blog though). Blah blah blah.

Well I was clicking on someone else’s link to thier 3FC blog and for some reason it didn’t take me to thier blog. It took me to the spot to sign up for my own blog. A sign.

So here I am. Writing my first post on my new blog and hoping it’s not my last. Public weight loss is supposed to be better than keeping it all hidden. Putting it out there encourages you to stick with it. While that hasn’t been my experience in the past…we’ll see what happens now.

So the secret to losing weight and keeping it off. For me I think I am having to revamp what I think that means. It doesn’t mean a fad diet. It doesn’t mean finding out what that girl who lost 100 lbs in a year is doing…or what that girl who lost 20 lbs in a month is doing. It’s figuring out what MY secret for weight loss is and MY secret to keeping the weight off. Well I can tell you what it’s NOT. But I’m not so sure I can tell you what it is.

For now, I’m calorie counting and watching my carb/protein/fat ratios. It’s working for me I guess. But I am so lost about whether I’m consuming enough or too many calories. My metabolism is so wonky from all the yo yo dieting I’ve done through the years, not to mention having PCOS.

Right now this is my plan:

1500-1800 calories a day. I’d like a weeky average of around 1700?

3-5 days of exercise

5 servings of produce a day

1 glass of milk or 1 container of yogurt a day

40% carbs, 30% fat, 30% protein

 

And it will be tweaked as I go! So wish me luck. I am currently 260 lbs. Down from 270 lbs on October 8th.

Filed under: Calories, Exercise, Weight loss on November 4th, 2009