My mom is the definition of a yo yo dieter. My whole life she's been either gaining or losing significant amounts of weight and maybe only a few times reached her actual goal. She's always had more to lose and then she gets tired of whatever fad diet she's on and goes back to her old ways and regains all of her weight and usually more. Since I've been losing she's constantly cautioning me about how hard it is to keep it off especially for people like her and I who tend to eat emotionally.
Now I'll start by saying my mom has never had a maintenance plan and always done some kind of fad diet. I on the other hand have spent 4 years losing this weight with one method or another of calorie counting and I do have a maintenance plan - more calorie counting! I've also developed what I hope to be a long term passion for running (which she tells me is a bad idea because runners are too skinny, look gaunt, and all have horrible joint problems). But I can feel this just wait and see - you'll gain it back attitude from her and it's really upsetting me. I have this stubborn streak to prove her wrong. And I don't want that to be what maintenance is about for me. I want it to be about enjoying this healthy new life because I love it and I want to set a good example for my family.
And then of course I want to prove that awful regain statistic wrong as well. Which is also stupid, I mean who needs that added pressure. Anyway, I'm rambling a little, but does anyone use wanting to prove people wrong about regaining to fuel their maintenance motivation?