Written by tigs01 on 20/01/2011 09:30
I suppose you could say this goes hand in hand with the previous blog post (We are all different) to an extent.
The question has been raised - as it often is - how long will it take me to lose the weight? Well, there's the answer we would all love to know! If I had an idea how much longer I would have to keep on plodding away for, it may make the journey a little easier. However, when I get to goal, I have to carry on and get to grips with maintenance. I want to get to goal, but more than that I want to stay there.
It isn't a race. I was lucky enough to lose the first four stone fairly quickly, with an average weight loss of around 2 lbs a week. I had gains and stay the sames in there, and there were weeks when I lost three, four, five pounds. Other weeks were a pound or less. I've never been a consistent loser, except in the sense that I usually would have three weeks of losses going from large, medium to small and then a gain or STS. That's not been so much the case this time around, or not for the last two or three months, at any rate.
We shall have to see what happens now the plateau seems to be out of the way. Despite having had a bit of a tummy upset again for a couple of days, I've actually gained a pound since Monday. Or I had yesterday, anyway. What's with that, anyway? It only means I'm the same weight I was on Saturday, so that's not too awful, but it is a little bit galling all the same. I really want to hit half way soon - two pounds to go as of last Saturday's WI so I was kind of hoping to get there this week.
I think we tend to forget that for most of us it took years to pack all the weight on. Expecting it all to come off as fast as it went on is just not realistic. It is far, far easier to gain weight than it is to lose it - I think we can all attest to that!
The absolute worst thing you can do is to give up and go back to eating anything you please. That is the quickest way to gain stones I know of. Three stone in six weeks, first time I fell off the wagon! I know how frustrating it is to not see the results you hoped for week after week. But you just have to keep on plodding along. All that giving up will get you is fatter.
People say that WeightWatchers doesn't work for them. I've said it myself in the past! Simple fact is, though, in the past I gave up far too easily and far too soon. You just don't know what will happen if you stick with it, keep weighing, measuring, pointing and tracking every last little thing you consume. If I'd known before that I could lose this much weight by sticking to just doing those little things. I'd have been at goal for the last twenty years. Well, fifteen, when Discover came in. I don't know if I cold have reached goal and stayed there on the previous plan to that.
Any weight loss regime, if stuck to, will produce the desired results. Most of them don't leave you with healthy, sensible habits that will keep off the weight long-term. Programmes like Lighter Life sound really attractive when you consider you could lose several stones over a six month period, but at the end of it you have no idea how to keep the weight off, other than continuing to rely on shakes and meal replacement bars at a huge cost for most of your meals. You can't live the rest of your life like that!
If Slimming World or Rosemary Conley work better with your personality type, that's great. SW would work better for me if there was more portion control; telling me to eat till I am satisfied doesn't necessarily work. RC is too blooming restrictive - I would rather eat the widest range of foods possible, enjoy my meals and learn to eat proper portions and in moderation where it matters.
That's why WW works for me, however long it takes. This is something I can live with, long-term, and hopefully what I've learned will keep me at goal. Because I am going to get there. Eventually!
The question has been raised - as it often is - how long will it take me to lose the weight? Well, there's the answer we would all love to know! If I had an idea how much longer I would have to keep on plodding away for, it may make the journey a little easier. However, when I get to goal, I have to carry on and get to grips with maintenance. I want to get to goal, but more than that I want to stay there.
It isn't a race. I was lucky enough to lose the first four stone fairly quickly, with an average weight loss of around 2 lbs a week. I had gains and stay the sames in there, and there were weeks when I lost three, four, five pounds. Other weeks were a pound or less. I've never been a consistent loser, except in the sense that I usually would have three weeks of losses going from large, medium to small and then a gain or STS. That's not been so much the case this time around, or not for the last two or three months, at any rate.
We shall have to see what happens now the plateau seems to be out of the way. Despite having had a bit of a tummy upset again for a couple of days, I've actually gained a pound since Monday. Or I had yesterday, anyway. What's with that, anyway? It only means I'm the same weight I was on Saturday, so that's not too awful, but it is a little bit galling all the same. I really want to hit half way soon - two pounds to go as of last Saturday's WI so I was kind of hoping to get there this week.
I think we tend to forget that for most of us it took years to pack all the weight on. Expecting it all to come off as fast as it went on is just not realistic. It is far, far easier to gain weight than it is to lose it - I think we can all attest to that!
The absolute worst thing you can do is to give up and go back to eating anything you please. That is the quickest way to gain stones I know of. Three stone in six weeks, first time I fell off the wagon! I know how frustrating it is to not see the results you hoped for week after week. But you just have to keep on plodding along. All that giving up will get you is fatter.
People say that WeightWatchers doesn't work for them. I've said it myself in the past! Simple fact is, though, in the past I gave up far too easily and far too soon. You just don't know what will happen if you stick with it, keep weighing, measuring, pointing and tracking every last little thing you consume. If I'd known before that I could lose this much weight by sticking to just doing those little things. I'd have been at goal for the last twenty years. Well, fifteen, when Discover came in. I don't know if I cold have reached goal and stayed there on the previous plan to that.
Any weight loss regime, if stuck to, will produce the desired results. Most of them don't leave you with healthy, sensible habits that will keep off the weight long-term. Programmes like Lighter Life sound really attractive when you consider you could lose several stones over a six month period, but at the end of it you have no idea how to keep the weight off, other than continuing to rely on shakes and meal replacement bars at a huge cost for most of your meals. You can't live the rest of your life like that!
If Slimming World or Rosemary Conley work better with your personality type, that's great. SW would work better for me if there was more portion control; telling me to eat till I am satisfied doesn't necessarily work. RC is too blooming restrictive - I would rather eat the widest range of foods possible, enjoy my meals and learn to eat proper portions and in moderation where it matters.
That's why WW works for me, however long it takes. This is something I can live with, long-term, and hopefully what I've learned will keep me at goal. Because I am going to get there. Eventually!
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