I'm struggling on my planned break.
I'm observing 1 week where I don't make any plans and have no restrictions.
I think there is something here .
I mean something relevant to the 75% that see their losses negated as gains.
While doing self help internet research , I came across an article about planned break. The very small study was structured to find out why we stop dieting. And when we restart. They found the opposite result they were trying to prove.
I Don't want to confuse it up so I'll go strait to the positive finding.
Most dieters quit dieting in an unplanned way. Quiting in a planned way for two weeks no more . This extends restriction diets. Simply because the person knows exactly when the will restart.
That's HUGE.
Especially for yo-yo dieters.
The group like me that has demonstrated we can lose mor than 50lbs but we allow it to come back.
I need to lose 100 from the start point, I get to 50lbs lost and about the 1year-2 years I quit in an unplanned way. With no plan to restart.
So I restarted last December.
My plan is to divide the year into four 13 week periods.
The 13th week is a planned break , and the 14 th begins recalibrated.
OK that's all the back story.
I'm on week thirteen right now.
I'm struggling with the thought process of unplanned unrestricted meals.
To me this indicates I need to take a serious look at this trend.
I know what to eat and how to exercise to be in optimal health.
BUT
I fail to get back on the planned meals path once I wonder off if I wonder off unplanned.
So I'll take this non food plan week to look into the self sabotage aspects of maintenance. I know there a thread here , or was for the goal maintenance achievers. But also why we sabotage ourselves sometimes.
I was hoping this week would be like a food vacation, but I'm seeing the sabotage aspects, and I'm not happy.
So I'm off to throw myself into reading more about this piece of the overall puzzle.
And I'll share what I learn to the thread .
Best wishes everyone.