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Originally Posted by cj_chick
Anyone have any advice on getting started again?
I don't know what makes the "click" happen, if we could bottle it we could make billions. Just based on my own experience, no plan created by anyone else could ever have worked for me, I had to plan around me, what I like to eat, how I live.
To me, losing the weight forever meant changing the way I eat forever. So, I looked at how I normally ate and thought "what can I change that will still be delicious that I can stick to forever?" and I thought "how much effort can I commit to on a daily basis based on my life?"
I also hated being hungry, so I eat every 2 hours. My new way of life includes a ton of planning/shopping/cutting up veggies, etc etc. Now it's a habit, on Sunday night I cut up 5 days of veggies while watching Grey's Anatomy.
Based on how I ate, there was no way I could go low carb. I ate a ton of pasta, curries over rice, stir fries over rice, quesadillas. I switched from white potatoes to sweet potatoes, from white rice to brown rice, from white bread to whole grain, from white pasta to wheat (or spelt!) and white tortillas to whole wheat. I used to be a sugar addict. Eating whole foods and good carbs and avoiding sugary crap, processed foods, fast foods and booze helped me break my sugar addiction.
For me, weight loss has to be maintainable, sustainable. That means NO changes that I can't stick to. No plan to start with an intent to stop. No way I can live without carbs, they are the basis of my eating, I just turned the useless carbs into good carbs.
Good luck, losing weight has been an incredibly effort, but so much joy to me. I am not the same person - I am energetic, I am happy, I am healthy.