Tue, Jan-09-18, 09:35
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Posts: 15,075
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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2. Time is on their side
The single best predictor of weight regain is how long they’ve successfully maintained the weight loss.
If you can succeed at maintaining your weight loss for 2 years, your risk of weight regain is reduced by 50%.
You can’t make time go faster. But you can make time work for you while it’s passing by focusing on identity-change (a noun) as opposed to making a diet-change (a verb).
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It seems likely that somebody who's maintained for two years has come across methods that make maintenance easier for them. For me, this step might be more along the lines of "find something that works for you, the path of least resistance that goes where you want to go." The difference between white-knuckling it for two years and finding something that you actually like doing for two years is immense.
I like the "throw out the last bit of cookie" bit. I've destroyed a number of jars of peanuts or peanut butter after binging halfway through them. |