I think to succeed after failure, you do have to do something differenty, but that something isn't necessarily your food plan. It could be your attitude, your belief system, your motivation, your stress level, your knowledge.... anything really.
I tried low-carb in the past, but I always cut carbs so low that I'd have blood sugar problems. I never thought to try moderately low carb.
I also had never tried "dieting backwards" (instead of deciding how fast I wanted to lose and try to make that happen, I decided what changes I was willing to make forever, and whatever weight loss resulted was my reward). Once I was comfortable with the changes I had made, I looked at what other changes I was willing to make. Focusing on making the changes (rather than on the results) because I trusted that the results would be positive (with or without much weight loss) gave me fewer reasons to give up.
For me, taking the failure out of weight loss was very important. I had to stop seeing slow weight as failure. I had to start seeing weight maintenance, even no-loss weeks as success. Seeing success where I used to see failure, has kept me moving (or at least pointed) in the right direction. I never have a reason to give up.
So yes, I think something has to change in order to succeed where you have tried but failed - but what has to change can be very unique to the individual. For some people, changing their food plan is the key. For others it may be a change of mindset. For others a new and different purpose.
Only you can find what component you need to change to make it work, and trial and error is the ony way to find it.
Last edited by kaplods; 05-29-2011 at 03:30 PM.
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