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Originally Posted by Glory87
Here is a link to my journal (if you are interested) documenting my struggle to accept 140 as maintenance when my goal was 135 and how mentally hard it was to start eating more (my fear of re-gaining weight). It's been a fairly interesting journey - don't give up, I was 140 for about 5 months before losing again!
http://boards.shape.com/ib/ikonboard...3;t=95261;st=0
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That's wonderful, thank you, I'll give it a read
I'm sure it was very mentally hard to eat more. I'm a stickler about watching my calories. I don't freak out or anything if I go over a hundred or two, as long as I stay under maintenance, nor do I 'punish' myself the next day by eating less. But it's still hard to get past that mentality because I'm so used to doing it now.
I read that post Mel gave me a link to and it makes perfect sense, that thin people who USED to be fat have to eat less than thin people who were NEVER fat. Because all the tweaking we do to our system to get our body to accept taking in fewer calories, I'm sure, screws things up a little, for lack of a better description.
That was a good read.