Sun, Feb-10-13, 15:30
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,136
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Plan: No factory-processed food
Stats: 230/147/147
BF:
Progress: 100%
Location: UK
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Originally Posted by Sherry01
I find the hardest part of maintenance is being comfortable with just being ok. For so long I have only wanted to be thinner. But every time I get to my goal, I sabotage myself so that I gain a few pounds and want to be thinner again, keep striving for it. Now that I've finally accepted that sugar and starch are poison to me, I dont't mess around with them anymore and I can tell that I will be able to hold myself here now. The problem is that I find his place very uncomfortable. It's like, Now What? What do I work toward now? It's hard for me to accept myself as being just right and simply live happily with it. This is really twisted psychologically, but it is very real. Did anyone else experience this when you got to maintenance, do you still fight it, and how did you get past it?
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For me maintenance has been a big adventure and I am not over the joy of it yet after getting on for a year. I think everything changed for me in the first few weeks of my original low-carb diet. Giving up so much processed food at once seemed to free me from the drive to overeat, and it's been the same ever since. I'm not counting my chickens, though; I need to keep this up for life and I do not trust myself at all.
I still feel there is plenty to work towards. I work towards keeping my weight level, and so even if this is a bit like treading water, it's is still much preferable to drowning.
I don't have the twisted psychological thing that you say you have. Maybe this is because I am a bloke and so society doesn't make me self-conscious about looks the way it does with women. Even though I am pleased to be slim at last, I never valued myself by my appearance when I was overweight and so I do not now. I am the same person, either way.
Last edited by Plinge : Sun, Feb-10-13 at 15:35.
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