I wrote, after responding to a couple of different posters:
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I had ZERO doubts that I would get it done this time. Zero. So odd. I simply can't explain it. It was a blessing. A true blessing. I am sure of it.
andI had ZERO doubts that I would get it done this time. Zero. So odd. I simply can't explain it. It was a blessing. A true blessing. I am sure of it.
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I made the decision to lose the weight - once and for all. Just realized that I didn't have to be fat if I didn't want to be. And I decided that I was going to lose the weight (and keep it off). And I was relieved. I was excited and relieved. Because I knew, having made that decision that the end of my misery was nearing. I had never felt that way before about it. Not even close.
Upon making that wonderful, life-altering decison, I did do my best to set myself up for success, by researching what were the best foods to eat to keep me full, by calorie counting, by ridding my home of all the junk, by adding in the good stuff, yada, yada, yada, you all know what I do. It was the first time I really, really DELVED and SEEKED out a good plan. I wonder which came first here. The chicken or the egg. Because I wanted it off so badly, would ANY plan have "worked" or because I wanted it so badly, did I devise the best plan possible? Hmmm. I wonder. Perhaps a combination of the both. I made the decision to lose the weight - once and for all. Just realized that I didn't have to be fat if I didn't want to be. And I decided that I was going to lose the weight (and keep it off). And I was relieved. I was excited and relieved. Because I knew, having made that decision that the end of my misery was nearing. I had never felt that way before about it. Not even close.
Anyway, I was just wondering how many of us maintainers had similar feelings of absolute certainty and how many DIDN'T, yet went on to lose the weight and keep it off ANYway.