Why Did You Regain?
If you lost weight previously, why did you gain it back? I think that is a very important question and the answers might help us toward a more satisfactory maintenance. After surgery last year I was down to 182. I maintained that for 6 months until I needed another surgery in December. After that, I started to gain. I knew it was happening, but kept ignoring it. I had part of my intestines removed, and the doctor put me on a diet that limited meat and fiber. Most veggies are high in fiber, so they were out. I ate a lot of pasta and other starchy foods. Pancakes, waffles. That was only until I healed inside, but once I got a taste of all these foods, I couldn't get back to eating healthy again. It wasn't until the scale got very close to going over 200 that I snapped out of it. So now I'm losing, but it's depressing that I am losing weight that I had lost before. It would have been so much better if I had been able to follow the doctor's orders without gaining.
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I know why I regained, stopped following everything I knew along with a lot of inactivity following surgery. I had surgery in December, was down to 182 on the day I went in, then had about 8 weeks recovery where I spent a lot of time in bed, husband doing the shopping and cooking and slowly started to go back to old habits. Tried to get back on track on my own a few months ago and wasn't able to do I re-joined, I need meetings to keep me going. Also was on a bunch of medication and hormones that didn't help with the weight gain, the first few weeks I was gaining 5 pounds a week :( BUT back on track!!
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I did not have surgery I just got lazy. A pound here a pound there and before I knew it in the space of a year I was back up to my starting weight. I am happy to say it has taken me another year to get it back off and I am maintaining but it seems to be a constant struggle. I stay within 3-4 pounds but I would really like to drop another 15.
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Yes, it is very easy to gain! I only lost 1/2 lb this past week, and I think it was because I wasn't eating the big salad every day I had been eating the first couple weeks. I really want to make this a lifestyle change.
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I've never had surgery either but have lost significant amounts of weight only to gain it back. The main reason is that I treated my weight loss as a "diet" to be endured until I met my goal. Once there, I relaxed my attitude and went back to the same old (bad) habits.
This time, the difference is that I have found methods that I can live with forever. I allow myself a few of the old pleasures but I make sure that I've accurately accounted for it and compensated in a day or two (I'm a calorie counter). Sure, I'll be happy to meet my ultimate goal, but from then on I will be mindful of the balance between eating and exercise. |
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This time, though, I know that this is a lifelong journey. Not just losing the weight, but maintaining. It really is a lifestyle change and adopting healthy habits. So I don't sacrifice foods, because I can't say I'm never going to eat ice cream or chocolate ever again. Instead I have to find the balance to make this something I can live with for the rest of my life. |
I let work take priority over taking care of myself.
I look back over the last few years and the thing that strikes me is that I simply didn't focus on myself and my health, then as the weight creeped on I didn't want to focus on that aspect of my life. Now I'm in a different job, with a regular schedule, making sure I'm eating healthy and moving more, it seems like it should have been a no-brainer. I can't take care of anybody else if I don't take care of me. Hope I don't sound negative, I'm feeling so much better, just look back I'm like how did you let that happen...oh well, shoulda, coulda, woulda...we're doing something about it now, right?! :goodvibes :sunny: |
Jogger - Looks like we can all look back at what we should have done differently. I started this thread so we can each be honest with ourselves about why we regained what we lost before in an effort to preventing that from happening again. It's a struggle for me, but each time I see that scale go up even 1 pount I get more determined not to let it continue.
When I worked, I spent so much money in the snack machines! And that was in addition to my lunch. I thought I would lose so much weight (and save money, too) after I retired, but I guess I just made up the calories somewhere else. We don't keep snack food in the house, and it doesn't really interest me, but it seems like at work I had to have it, just because it was there. Now I am trying to snack on veggies when I get a snack attack. |
I would always lose weight in the winter - it was easy. The kids had a regular schedule so I'd get to bed in time to get up at 5AM and hit the gym. And when I'm working out, I eat better. Then when school let out, all exercise and eating healthy would go out the window until the following January. It was nuts. This time around, I tried something new. Joined WW in December and of course, I lost during the winter and spring. When summer rolled around I made it my goal to stick to being under 160, but didn't "think" about losing weight. At the end of the summer, just maintaining, I got down to 152. So that's what I'm going to try to do for the rest of my life - maintain overall healthy habits, treat myself without gorging myself and enjoying food and life.
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I got pregnant with my third child, which brought on "I'm pregnant so I can eat for two...or three...or FOUR" syndrome. And that's what I did. And here I am, back at it.
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I got lazy and I got happy. I used to say that I gained the weight the first time from grief, when I lost my mum suddenly. That was true, but, well, here I am again, and the only additional big thing that's happened since the last time is that I found a WONDERFUL relationship and am super happy. So yeah...happy and lazy. I gained roughly 36 pounds back in three years. VERY easy to do.:o
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For me, it's head hunger. I know I shouldn't put it in my mouth, my body doesn't need it, but my head says I need it...and the head wins. I guess it all boils down to food addiction and learning to overcome it to cure everything. Dr Furhman (Eat to Live) has an emotional eating counseling program that I would love to try, but it's very expensive. I'll just have to figure it out on my own. :)
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