I am now in my 8th maintenance year.
This morning the scale says I'm 122.4 lbs (BMI = 23.9)

 To see what Maintenance is like for me. Click the links below:  

About Me

Running Down the Up Escalator

"He was born on the finish line, so he thinks he won the race."

This quote is So VERY applicable to naturally thin people,.... and also to those people who have never lived well inside the border of Obesity,.... who give weight-loss advice to those of us who are personally living with the issue of Obesity.

While this quote amuses me, I find it important to never lose sight of this TRUTH:
Whatever method one chooses for weight-loss, with regards to issues of weight-loss and maintenance of that weight-loss, there is NO Finish Line.

At this point I consider weight-loss Advice from people who have not personally spent considerable time in the state of Obesity …no matter how "well-meaning" that advice may be … to be uninformed, ignorant chatter, which I find tiresome, offensive, and unwelcome. 

Much of the Conventional Wisdom one hears repeated again and again, year after year, decade after decade,…including what is currently taught to medical professionals via nutritional textbooks... originated from Marketing Interests, and that information isn't helpful to resolve our obesity issues.

We are all different and there is no one-size-fits-all, BUT….I do feel certain that: Whatever one does to lose weight must be continued FOREVER in order to maintain that weight-loss.

Commitment is one of the things I find most necessary for personal weight-loss and maintenance success.  I work to stay true to my Commitment, even when I don't feel like it.  

One of my top Commitments is to track all of my food everyday.  I've been consistently successful at that now for the past 8 1/2 years.  

I also have other related commitments which are strictly one-day-at-a-time, and I've achieved far less success with these.   One is to work to eat at-or-under whatever calorie ceiling I've set for the day, and another is to work to follow whatever food plan I've chosen for that day. My success with these commitments tend to be more sporadic, but still....so far....I've had far more successful days than unsuccessful days.

So it goes.