Hello all, well I am officially in my 10 month maintaining my weight loss and I am happy to report, drum roll please...................my weigh in today I am right on holding my 25 pound weight loss! It feels GREAT, I am doing it, my maintenance is doable! I am pretty dang proud of myself for what I have accomplished.

It hasn't been a breeze. I've had a few bumps in my maintenance road, but I hung on extra tight and got back on track after a few detours to chocolateville and wineville! Yes, I am still learning the ropes. I realize I have to try and balance my induldgences and aim for consistency rather than striving for perfection, because when I go the perfection route, that is when I seem to veer off eventually.... Thank goodness maintenance is FOREVER, I just hope it doesn't take me FOREVER to master it! So far so good though right? .... 10 months in and holding my own... I'm proud!


~Wendalyn

Wendalyn!! I think all of our journeys have those little detours -- but you're right, we're not going to be perfect so it's all about getting back on track. Nice work on ten months!

Congratulations, Wendalyn

Ten months is terrific. That's about where I am in my journey, so, if you have any great tips on how to keep at it, let me know.

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Thanks Meg, good to know everyone has detours too, that makes me feel human!

Hey Billblueeyes,
Thanks so much, and right back at you then. KUDOS to you too for maintaining just as long, that is FANTASTIC!

10 months?! Congratulations. Sounds like you're learning what it means to make a lifestyle change/commitment. I plan to be maintaining for the rest of my life, too, enough with the up and down with weight and clothes sizes! Congrats again!

Thank you goalsuccess.

Wendalyn (that's so much prettier than "Evil" ) -- one of the big surprises of maintenance for me was not being cured of my eating issues. I had this fantasy that when I reached goal, I'd be magically cured of the eating issues I've had since childhood. I don't know where I got that idea, but it sure turned out to be wrong!!

I still struggle and the "old me" is always lurking right beneath the surface, just waiting until I'm tired or stressed to pop out. So I've learned that maintenance is all about management of eating issues (since there's no cure). As for the detours, I still mess up regularly. BUT ... I never let it carry over into a day or week or months. It's right back on track, ASAP.

We're all human, like you said, and we're all going to take those detours into Chocolateville and Wineville. It's what we do afterwards that spells the difference between maintenance success and regain.

Congrats again on your very successful maintenance!!

Wendalyn congratulations! I just made goal a month ago I hope I can do as well as you.

ROCK ON, Wendalyn!! In two months, you will have maintained for an entire year I know you are continuously enjoying your nice slim self... and yup, though I have not been maintaining nearly as long as you have, I know that maintenance is not a perfect act, that we will always have to make healthy food choices, and that we will always fall off plan every now and then... BUT of course it is a small price to pay for looking fabulous.

Meg,
Thank you for taking the time to post again. I really am harmless, not much of an evilwoman at all..

Oh yeah the old me's sugar habits are hurrendous and she still appears often, but I am working on balance, balance, balance. When I have my balance mastered, I outta be a terrific gymnast too!

Yeah its not like once we get to maintenance we are cured of every craving either, no sir ri, they still happen in maintenance too!

Thanks again for your kind words, means a lot that maintainers still screw up occasionally too, its nice to know your human.

Thanks bargoo, your doing it! 1 month is awesome, CONGRATS are in order for you too!

~Wendalyn

Thank you Nite,
Yup 2 more months and I am 1 year in, geesh time sure flies! It will be nice when I can remove my training wheels from my maintenance though....

Congratulations Wendalyn! You are doing such a wonderful job.

Thanks Megan,

I still appreciate your kind words, ever since day I, your a sincere soul!

In regards to your siggie, I KNOW YOU CAN TOO!

~Wendalyn