re: PuttaDaForkDown

No offense, but it amazes me that people are suprised when they regain weight. It's not a diet it's a lifestyle. The way to maintain is to eat what you want within reason but continue counting calories. After you reach your desired weight reverse diet to a maintenance caloricamouny. Add 100 calorie per week until you reach this amount.

No it's just common sense that if you go back to eating he way you ate before dieting you will regain the weight.

My point is lots of people go on a diet, lose weight, then the diet is over. They dont make an effort to make permanent changes. They go back and forth b/n dieting and their normal eating habits and complain that they can't seem to keep the weight off. I'm not saying this applies to anyone here but it applies to a good bit of people. I just offered a way to keep the weight off. If this makes me come off as high and mighty frick it. It's not that freaking hard and people who say it is are just giving themselves a built in excuse for future failure.

Ok. Keep telling yourself how hard it is.

How long have you been at this? Myth has been on it for well over 3 years now, hit his goal, and it's still a struggle. And guess what, it will be a struggle for the rest of his life. As it will be for me. When people get big, REALLY big, like I was, and like myth was, there was and maybe still is a problem with the person's relationship for food. There very well may always be a problem with the person's relationship with food. It's not that simple as saying no. Saying no only goes so far. When I started I had all of the motivation in the world and could say no, and would go out with friends and didn't drink, didn't eat bad shite, etc. But after a while, it wears down on you mentally. I have a problem with junk food and with booze; I love junk food, I love fast food, and I love to drink. I can't trick myself into saying I don't love those things; I've tried and it worked for a while but it doesn't stick either. There's something mentally off about our relationship with food. That's why myth says you're coming off high and mighty, because you obviously don't have a broken relationship with food; you don't understand what goes on up in our heads, and all you know is that saying no is all you need to do.

Yup. Well said Hulk.

I have addiction problems. Food being one. Alcohol being the other. With the help of my friends at AA, I haven't had a drink in 4+ years but food is always going to be a struggle.

I am a stress eater and haven't figured out how to control that issue.

People who don't have said problems love to just say it is easy as not eating or taking a drink.

Can't blame them entirely because for them, it is. They just don't see how anyone else could be different. No sense arguing about it.... or at least not too much....

C'est la vie.

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No offense, but it amazes me that people are suprised when they regain weight. It's not a diet it's a lifestyle. The way to maintain is to eat what you want within reason but continue counting calories. After you reach your desired weight reverse diet to a maintenance caloricamouny. Add 100 calorie per week until you reach this amount.

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While this is true, you have to think of it in terms of an addict. What would an alcoholic do if you said "just cut back! Just drink a little bit once in a while and it's fine". No. No that doesn't work, an alcoholic has to quit alcohol altogether to recover, generally speaking. Unfortunately for food addicts, you can't just not eat. That's where we're coming from. It's simply not that easy.

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Like u said Myth, you initiated it. I am wrong assuming it's easy for everyone. I still stick by my statement that constantly saying it's hard is defeatist and counterproductive.

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That's what this thread is really all about because its easy:
"Eat right, Do Right,"
signed Dudley.
Snidely Whiplash might disagree.