Purple,
If you want the weight to go and
stay off, you have to stop thinking about "dieting". Maintenance doesn't look much different from how you live when you lose weight.
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The problem is I'm diligent Monday - Thursday. But once Friday hits, it's all over. I eat a lot and work out considerably less! I'm beginning to loathe weekends as much as I do dieting.
You need to change that mindset, and your plateau will be gone and you'll have no trouble maintaining at your goal weight. As long as you loathe the way you are living, it's not going to work in the long run. I'd really suggest you take some time and read Ann Fletcher's
Thin for Life, or go to the Maintenance forum and read the 10 discussion threads that we had about the book earlier this year. Meg gave a great synopsis of each chapter, then a lot of us at or near goal weight posted about our experiences on whatever the chapter topic was. It was really surprising to me how closely most successful losers and
maintainers experiences mirrored each others. And keeping it off is what's really important.
As you said, even if it takes the rest of 2005 to lose another 5 pounds, it's worth it. But you need to learn a way to live without loathing it
Mel