[Flying Betty]

Oops, I slipped up and went away for a few months. Am back up to about 167 now and more of a size 12 than 10 .

The biggest enemy turned out to be COMPLACENCY! When I started out it was pretty easy to eat obsessively healthily and count everything until I knew what my body really needed. Than I was able to coast for a few months by eating pretty intuitively and keeping a vague count in my head. (I'm hungry- hmm, I've only eaten 1000 calories today, no wonder! or I'm hungry- but I shouldn't be since I'm up around 1400. I'll have a handful of carrots) But somehow after a year or so it stopped being quite so easy to resist the sweets and my healthy, natural eating turned into getting something from a restaurant on campus for lunch and binging on candy after dinner. Nooooo!

And then it clicked back into place again. I'm not feeling the urge to gorge myself on sweets (much!), I'm feeling content and happy to eat my moderate amounts of healthy (or healthyish) food, and I went swimming today!

Here I go again!

[JayEll]

Glad you're back! Yes, it seems that those who are successful at keeping weight off are those who have made a lifetime change in how they eat. That's what I'm hoping for!

Jay

[aphil]

And you did the right thing by coming back here instead of putting on your sweats!!!

[Flying Betty]

Luckily I'm too stubborn to let myself bounce back too far! (And man are my legs feeling all those laps that I swam yesterday.)