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Most of us, at one time or another, have been on some sort of diet to try to lose weight. And most of us (95%, if the stats are accurate,) have experienced the disappointment of regaining that same weight. I recently joined up with four of my "maintainer-blogger friends" to try to share our collective experience in weight loss maintenance. Collectively, we have lost a total of 528 pounds, and have been maintaining for 24.5 years. Our name is AIM--"Adventures In Maintenance." We plan to choose one subject and each write about it from our perspective and personal experience on the first Monday of each month.
This month the question we tackled was "What's Different This Time?" I'll give you the Reader's Digest Version of what I wrote. I knew this time that whatever I did, it had to be for the rest of my life. I actually knew that 20 years ago, before I started this last journey down the scale (eight years ago.) I knew it and I didn't think it was something I COULD do, so I refused to try dieting for a LONG time. And when I did finally start, the motto that was always on my mind was, "What you're doing now isn't working. You must do something differently." The third thing that I think helped was that I actually admitted that I needed help. I couldn't do it on my own.
If you'd like to read more about the possibility of long term weight loss maintenance, click on over to my blog, Debby Weighs In. I'll share more about what I've learned this time around, and I'll have links to my four friends who have shared their "secrets of success" in maintaining their weight losses.
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