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Thin For Life/The National Weight Control Registry
02-01-2007, 02:35 PM
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lilybelle
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: rural Oklahoma
Posts: 6,620
S/C/G: 234/142/145
Height: 5'7
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I am also interested in being a member of the NWCR. I want to wait until I have maintained at my goal for a year. Would I still qualify to be a member with changing my maintenance strategy midway thru the year?
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02-01-2007, 03:38 PM
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#32
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 1999
Posts: 10,489
S/C/G: 257/135/maintaining
Height: 5' 4"
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The NWCR would love to have you! They don't care if you change your strategies every week - they just want to ask what works for you. 
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Meg
Start: 257 - June 1, 2001
Goal: 135 - May 12, 2002
Size 22/size 4
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02-01-2007, 04:29 PM
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lilybelle
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: rural Oklahoma
Posts: 6,620
S/C/G: 234/142/145
Height: 5'7
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Thanks Meg.
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07-15-2007, 07:18 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 1999
Posts: 10,489
S/C/G: 257/135/maintaining
Height: 5' 4"
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I got my annual NWCR survey yesterday. It started off by congratulating me for completing four years as a member.  This year's survey was quite brief compared to earlier years - it was only the front and back of a page. It asked for my current height and weight and asked what I weighed a year ago. It then had sections to complete if you were more than five pounds above or below last year's weight.
I actually weigh six pounds less than my post-surgery weight a year ago, so got to fill out the weight loss section. It asked if my weight loss was due to illness, stress, life changes, or deliberate. I checked "deliberate"!! Then it asked how I feel about my weight loss on a scale of 1 (extremely happy) to 8 (extremely upset) and of course I was a "1". The next question was if I had made any attempt to regain the weight and I checked "no" but couldn't resist writing "are you kidding?" in the margin.
The last question was if I had continued to participate in any weight loss or weight maintenance program in the past year. I said "no" because I assume they mean a structured program like Weight Watchers, not just doing my own thing.
So on to my fifth year with the NWCR! They promised to send me summaries of the data collected from the NWCR when I mail back my survey, so I'll be sure to post about the info when I receive it.
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Meg
Start: 257 - June 1, 2001
Goal: 135 - May 12, 2002
Size 22/size 4
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07-17-2007, 08:02 AM
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Maintainer-to-be
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Posts: 57
S/C/G: 214/170/154
Height: 5'8" / 1.72 m
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After reading through this thread I've decided to apply to NWCR to see if they will have me. I've maintained a 30 pound weight loss since January 2005 so that ought to be sufficient! Wow, that's 2.5 years! My weight has gone up and down a lot during that time but I've never touched those 30 pounds, if you understand what I mean.
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The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline.
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03-08-2008, 09:38 PM
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#36
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Boston Qualifier and MOM
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oregon
Posts: 5,609
S/C/G: 186/see ticker/?
Height: 5'3.75"
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I had decided long ago that I would use healthy BMI anniversary (it was more than 30 lbs, but it was my first REAL goal). It just occurred to me that it must be soon. I looked it up and it was 3/15/07. Guess I should look up how to do this
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09-06-2009, 01:31 PM
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#37
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Resident Pixie
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Ballston Spa, NY
Posts: 14,662
S/C/G: Pant Size - 28/12/8
Height: 5'2"
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I am officially a member
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09-06-2009, 03:48 PM
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#38
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Maintaining
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Wherever I go, there I am...
Posts: 5,650
S/C/G: H174/mnx 127-131
Height: 5'5.5"
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Me too. Got my stuff in the mail last Saturday, sending it back in on Tuesday.
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09-06-2009, 03:58 PM
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#39
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Resident Pixie
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Ballston Spa, NY
Posts: 14,662
S/C/G: Pant Size - 28/12/8
Height: 5'2"
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09-15-2009, 05:38 PM
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Midwesterner
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Iowa
Posts: 13,283
S/C/G: 152/116/120
Height: 5' 3"
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I am filling out my packet this week.
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Anne
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11-12-2009, 10:25 AM
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Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 48
S/C/G: 165/136/134
Height: 5'3.5"
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I'm officially a member & I am filling out my questionnaires this week =)
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Remember you always have a choice...it is yours & no one else's to make. 
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04-09-2011, 05:48 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: San Antonio, TX
Posts: 1,109
S/C/G: 192/maintaining mid 120's
Height: 5"8.5" 49 yrs
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I have looked forward to this day marking my 1 year of a 30 # loss and the opportunity to join. I am looking forward to filling out the questionnaire when it arrives.
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Karen925
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08-04-2011, 04:28 PM
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#43
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Long-term maintainer
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Australia
Posts: 104
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I've been a member of the NWCR for about six years. There are so few of we maintainers around, and comparatively few studies of maintenance (as compared to weight loss) I'm happy to help out.
The Registry accepts non-US members, if anyone's wondering.
I find some of the questions hard to answer though. The questionnaire assumes that you eat a lot of processed/packaged food. For example, do you eat "regular" or low-fat salad dressing? We don't buy bottled salad dressing, so whether we eat regular or low-fat depends on the recipe we're using that night. 
Then there's a question about whether you eat cold cereal. (Yes) Then later on, you're asked to fill in a box from a list - Special K, Kashi Light etc. I eat either home-made muesli (no added sugar) or home-made granola (no added sugar or fat) so I just leave that box blank, thus creating a discrepancy. Once, the Registry emailed me because I forgot to answer a question, but they never got back to me about the cereal issue.
Anyway, it's a worthwhile exercise.
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09-15-2011, 07:06 AM
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Long-term maintainer
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Australia
Posts: 104
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I just remembered something else about the Registry.
There's a question about how much you enjoy the simple pleasures of life (examples I remember are "reading a good book", "seeing a good movie" and "sitting in the sun") now, compared with when you were overweight.
It was sobering for me to realise that I enjoy those things far more now than I did when activities or socialising revolved around food.
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Maintaining a 90-pound weight loss since 2003.
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01-04-2012, 10:48 AM
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needs constant reminding
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 2,726
S/C/G: 164/maintenance since 8/08
Height: 5'4"
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I'm contacting the Registry today.
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