A Big Decision

This July I'll have following more or less the same WOE for 5 years,
and will have been maintaining for over 3 years. I've decided I'm
going to stop weighing, measuring, and adding up calories. I don't
plan to eat differently, and will still post "Food & Exercise" -- just
minus the numbers. My goal in all this has always been to one day be
able to live as a "normal" slim person, and I don't think that
includes weighing and measuring food for the rest of my life, and I've
decided I can manage without this tool now. (It's conveniently the
day before we have four big dinners out in four days :-). But that
was all planned well in advance; it's not some kind of big splurge to
celebrate the end of calorie counting :-).)

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

Maintaining for 3 years is a remarkable record. Good luck with your plan.

Perhaps, you need to decide some weight at which you would re-start your
regimen.

My 1st effort at maintenance without careful calorie calculation led to
regain.


"Chris Braun" <braun@mill-creek-systems.com> wrote in message
news:l63d23pde3hl2sjnvkhitria8vqeq8a74v@4ax.com...
> This July I'll have following more or less the same WOE for 5 years,
> and will have been maintaining for over 3 years. I've decided I'm
> going to stop weighing, measuring, and adding up calories. I don't
> plan to eat differently, and will still post "Food & Exercise" -- just
> minus the numbers. My goal in all this has always been to one day be
> able to live as a "normal" slim person, and I don't think that
> includes weighing and measuring food for the rest of my life, and I've
> decided I can manage without this tool now. (It's conveniently the
> day before we have four big dinners out in four days :-). But that
> was all planned well in advance; it's not some kind of big splurge to
> celebrate the end of calorie counting :-).)
>
> Chris
> 262/130s/130s
> started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

Good point here, I think you might want to have a "get your behind in gear"
plan....

Will~

"Cubit" <no@not.not> wrote in message
news:TTxVh.7090$5e2.3276@newssvr11.news.prodigy.ne t...
> Maintaining for 3 years is a remarkable record. Good luck with your plan.
>
> Perhaps, you need to decide some weight at which you would re-start your
> regimen.
>
> My 1st effort at maintenance without careful calorie calculation led to
> regain.
>
>
> "Chris Braun" <braun@mill-creek-systems.com> wrote in message
> news:l63d23pde3hl2sjnvkhitria8vqeq8a74v@4ax.com...
>> This July I'll have following more or less the same WOE for 5 years,
>> and will have been maintaining for over 3 years. I've decided I'm
>> going to stop weighing, measuring, and adding up calories. I don't
>> plan to eat differently, and will still post "Food & Exercise" -- just
>> minus the numbers. My goal in all this has always been to one day be
>> able to live as a "normal" slim person, and I don't think that
>> includes weighing and measuring food for the rest of my life, and I've
>> decided I can manage without this tool now. (It's conveniently the
>> day before we have four big dinners out in four days :-). But that
>> was all planned well in advance; it's not some kind of big splurge to
>> celebrate the end of calorie counting :-).)
>>
>> Chris
>> 262/130s/130s
>> started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004
>
>

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:05:20 -0700, "Willow Herself"
<willowkinda@somethingkikeseamountains.net> wrote:

>Good point here, I think you might want to have a "get your behind in gear"
>plan....
>
>Will~
>
>"Cubit" <no@not.not> wrote in message
>news:TTxVh.7090$5e2.3276@newssvr11.news.prodigy.n et...
>> Maintaining for 3 years is a remarkable record. Good luck with your plan.
>>
>> Perhaps, you need to decide some weight at which you would re-start your
>> regimen.
>>
>> My 1st effort at maintenance without careful calorie calculation led to
>> regain.
>>

In reply to both of you: I've had such a plan for 3 years. It's
pretty much embodied in my goal range -- stay in the 130s. If I hit
140, it's time to cut back :-).



Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

I should have known!! )

You're such an inspiration Chris!!! I know you'll be doing awesome!

Will~

"Chris Braun" <braun@mill-creek-systems.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:05:20 -0700, "Willow Herself"
> <willowkinda@somethingkikeseamountains.net> wrote:
>
>>Good point here, I think you might want to have a "get your behind in
>>gear"
>>plan....
>>
>>Will~
>>
>>"Cubit" <no@not.not> wrote in message
>>news:TTxVh.7090$5e2.3276@newssvr11.news.prodigy. net...
>>> Maintaining for 3 years is a remarkable record. Good luck with your
>>> plan.
>>>
>>> Perhaps, you need to decide some weight at which you would re-start your
>>> regimen.
>>>
>>> My 1st effort at maintenance without careful calorie calculation led to
>>> regain.
>>>
>
> In reply to both of you: I've had such a plan for 3 years. It's
> pretty much embodied in my goal range -- stay in the 130s. If I hit
> 140, it's time to cut back :-).
>
>
>
> Chris
> 262/130s/130s
> started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

WOW - I remember when your big decision was whether to go down a class in
the weight lifting because you didn't want to drop out of the 150's.


"Chris Braun" <braun@mill-creek-systems.com> wrote in message
news:l63d23pde3hl2sjnvkhitria8vqeq8a74v@4ax.com...
> This July I'll have following more or less the same WOE for 5 years,
> and will have been maintaining for over 3 years. I've decided I'm
> going to stop weighing, measuring, and adding up calories. I don't
> plan to eat differently, and will still post "Food & Exercise" -- just
> minus the numbers. My goal in all this has always been to one day be
> able to live as a "normal" slim person, and I don't think that
> includes weighing and measuring food for the rest of my life, and I've
> decided I can manage without this tool now. (It's conveniently the
> day before we have four big dinners out in four days :-). But that
> was all planned well in advance; it's not some kind of big splurge to
> celebrate the end of calorie counting :-).)
>
> Chris
> 262/130s/130s
> started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

In article <l63d23pde3hl2sjnvkhitria8vqeq8a74v@4ax.com>,
Chris Braun <braun@mill-creek-systems.com> wrote:

> This July I'll have following more or less the same WOE for 5 years,
> and will have been maintaining for over 3 years. I've decided I'm
> going to stop weighing, measuring, and adding up calories. I don't
> plan to eat differently, and will still post "Food & Exercise" -- just
> minus the numbers. My goal in all this has always been to one day be
> able to live as a "normal" slim person, and I don't think that
> includes weighing and measuring food for the rest of my life, and I've
> decided I can manage without this tool now. (It's conveniently the
> day before we have four big dinners out in four days :-). But that
> was all planned well in advance; it's not some kind of big splurge to
> celebrate the end of calorie counting :-).)
>
> Chris
> 262/130s/130s
> started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

Good luck to you Chris! You've done well!

Amy
168/117/...

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On Apr 18, 5:29 pm, Chris Braun <b...@mill-creek-systems.com> wrote:
> This July I'll have following more or less the same WOE for 5 years,
> and will have been maintaining for over 3 years. I've decided I'm
> going to stop weighing, measuring, and adding up calories. I don't
> plan to eat differently, and will still post "Food & Exercise" -- just
> minus the numbers. My goal in all this has always been to one day be
> able to live as a "normal" slim person, and I don't think that
> includes weighing and measuring food for the rest of my life, and I've
> decided I can manage without this tool now. (It's conveniently the
> day before we have four big dinners out in four days :-). But that
> was all planned well in advance; it's not some kind of big splurge to
> celebrate the end of calorie counting :-).)
>
> Chris
> 262/130s/130s
> started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

I'm confident you'll handle this phase just as well as you've handled
the others!

Beverly

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:29:41 GMT, Chris Braun
<braun@mill-creek-systems.com> wrote:

>This July I'll have following more or less the same WOE for 5 years,
>and will have been maintaining for over 3 years. I've decided I'm
>going to stop weighing, measuring, and adding up calories. I don't
>plan to eat differently, and will still post "Food & Exercise" -- just
>minus the numbers. My goal in all this has always been to one day be
>able to live as a "normal" slim person, and I don't think that
>includes weighing and measuring food for the rest of my life, and I've
>decided I can manage without this tool now. (It's conveniently the
>day before we have four big dinners out in four days :-). But that
>was all planned well in advance; it's not some kind of big splurge to
>celebrate the end of calorie counting :-).)

Chris
I'm very confident that you will handle the change to not weighing and
counting your food without it affecting your maintenance. I've never
got as far as maintenance myself, but I've always felt that this is
the time above all when I would want to weigh myself regularly in
order to keep check on any possible gain. You can always return to
weighing and measuring your food for a week once in a while if you
find your portion sizes slipping.

I'm so glad to see you're still going to continue posting here.

janice

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:41:40 +0100, janice@london.uk (janice) wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:29:41 GMT, Chris Braun
><braun@mill-creek-systems.com> wrote:
>
>>This July I'll have following more or less the same WOE for 5 years,
>>and will have been maintaining for over 3 years. I've decided I'm
>>going to stop weighing, measuring, and adding up calories. I don't
>>plan to eat differently, and will still post "Food & Exercise" -- just
>>minus the numbers. My goal in all this has always been to one day be
>>able to live as a "normal" slim person, and I don't think that
>>includes weighing and measuring food for the rest of my life, and I've
>>decided I can manage without this tool now. (It's conveniently the
>>day before we have four big dinners out in four days :-). But that
>>was all planned well in advance; it's not some kind of big splurge to
>>celebrate the end of calorie counting :-).)
>
>Chris
>I'm very confident that you will handle the change to not weighing and
>counting your food without it affecting your maintenance. I've never
>got as far as maintenance myself, but I've always felt that this is
>the time above all when I would want to weigh myself regularly in
>order to keep check on any possible gain. You can always return to
>weighing and measuring your food for a week once in a while if you
>find your portion sizes slipping.
>
>I'm so glad to see you're still going to continue posting here.
>
>janice

I think posting here helps me, and I like to think it occasionally
helps someone else, so I want to keep at it. I think it's a more
important tool for me than the weighing and measuring.

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:29:41 GMT, Chris Braun wrote:

> This July I'll have following more or less the same WOE for 5 years,
> and will have been maintaining for over 3 years. I've decided I'm
> going to stop weighing, measuring, and adding up calories. I don't
> plan to eat differently, and will still post "Food & Exercise" -- just
> minus the numbers. My goal in all this has always been to one day be
> able to live as a "normal" slim person, and I don't think that
> includes weighing and measuring food for the rest of my life, and I've
> decided I can manage without this tool now. (It's conveniently the
> day before we have four big dinners out in four days :-). But that
> was all planned well in advance; it's not some kind of big splurge to
> celebrate the end of calorie counting :-).)
>

With your record of maintaining, you probably have your dietary habits
pretty well set by this point. I hope eventually to get there myself.

As long as you set a point (size, bodyweight, bodyfat, etc...) that
you don't want to be over, and keep tabs on that, then I think you
should be fine.

Way to go!

--
Cynthia
262/240.5/152

I dunno Chris. I lost a whack of weight over two years ago (highest
weight was 195, lowest was 126), and was stable at about 130 for a
long time.....and then I stopped weighing myself maybe 8 months ago.
Soooo.....now I'm up 20 lb and am back on the trail. Argh, argh,
argh.

I continued to eat pretty much the same in terms of what I ate when I
went through the big weight loss - still no potatoes, rice, pasta,
bread, still low fat, still tons of fruits and veg. - I think what was
creeping up was portion size. Also, even though I wasn't pigging out,
giving myself permission to have the odd cookie etc. was pernicious in
terms of weight gain.

I stopped weighing myself because I just didn't want to do the
obsessive thinking about diet, weight, food etc. any more, and I
thought I was stable enough to do without it. However, then I got into
the psychology of knowing I was up a few pounds, and thinking that was
okay, I could just cut back a few days...and never quite doing that,
so then it was a few more pounds....and then I got SCARED to go on the
scales, and was industriously denying the whole thing.

So...I suppose its good I've slapped myself awake and am back working
on that stupid 20 lbs which I KNOW I should have dealt with when it
was 5 lb - and might have had I been weighing myself regularly.

Mary G.

On 23 Apr 2007 18:14:22 -0700, Mary_Gordon@tvo.org wrote:

>I dunno Chris. I lost a whack of weight over two years ago (highest
>weight was 195, lowest was 126), and was stable at about 130 for a
>long time.....and then I stopped weighing myself maybe 8 months ago.
>Soooo.....now I'm up 20 lb and am back on the trail. Argh, argh,
>argh.
>
>I continued to eat pretty much the same in terms of what I ate when I
>went through the big weight loss - still no potatoes, rice, pasta,
>bread, still low fat, still tons of fruits and veg. - I think what was
>creeping up was portion size. Also, even though I wasn't pigging out,
>giving myself permission to have the odd cookie etc. was pernicious in
>terms of weight gain.
>
>I stopped weighing myself because I just didn't want to do the
>obsessive thinking about diet, weight, food etc. any more, and I
>thought I was stable enough to do without it. However, then I got into
>the psychology of knowing I was up a few pounds, and thinking that was
>okay, I could just cut back a few days...and never quite doing that,
>so then it was a few more pounds....and then I got SCARED to go on the
>scales, and was industriously denying the whole thing.
>
>So...I suppose its good I've slapped myself awake and am back working
>on that stupid 20 lbs which I KNOW I should have dealt with when it
>was 5 lb - and might have had I been weighing myself regularly.
>
>Mary G.

Well, I'm not stopping weighing myself, just weighing the food :-).
Hopefully this will work out okay.

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004