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Originally Posted by sandygirl68
I'm impressed at how healthy you look! How has it been now that it has been a few months?
I thought I'd wait a few days to respond to this as today is my two months maintenance anniversary, that doesn't include the month it took me to phase off. It's not much, but it's something.
I find my anxiety level on the scale has greatly reduced as I see a natural swing of my weight. I'm still journaling, I use an iPad app "my net diary", based on a recommendation from KatMarie (she has goal pictures on here). One of the options is to look at your 'progress' and you can see the swing of my weight. I'm usually my lowest on the morning of my fun day (Sat) and then bounce back up. Sunday is Phase 1 (requirement as per maintenance plans, IP isn't the first diet to have a strict day during the week), then the rest of the week is Phase 4 and it usually takes a few days to see my weight start to come back down and I'm the lowest again on the morning of my fun day.
I'm consistently running 2 times a week, testing for 3. Right now I'm running between a 5.4-5.6 on the treadmill (I think I might be about 12-13 runs in now) with the last five minutes 6.0-6.7 and I do this for 40 minutes, but add in a 5 minute warm up and a 5 minute cool down (so total workout is 50 minutes). I haven't added strength in yet, not sure when I will add that, but I will!
So far so good! I'm planning a vacation this summer, this will be the test!
But I'm already planning my strategy for when I'm away and what I will do when I'm home.
thanks for the comments!