Originally Posted by
jim p
I totally agree. What I was referring to was that the weight loss part would be over. The maintaining part is forever. It is quite a balancing act to maintain. My activity level changes through out the year because I am involved in hunting which is basically a sitting sport with no exercise for me. It is also cold during hunting season so how do you stay warm with no fuel in the furnace.
For me it is impossible for me to cook a cake and eat just one piece. If I cook a cake, I am going to eat the last crumb before I stop.
Good luck to all. Find what works for you and do it. There is no one way that works for all and there is not just one way to get the job done.
One of my buddies is going to a doctor for weight loss. He started out at 337lbs. The doctor put him on a 1100 cal/ day diet. He is losing about 11 lbs per week and he continues to work out with weights and bike. The last that I talked with him he had lost around 80 pounds which is a great achievement. It is possible to lose weight so keep looking for the motivation and the method that will work for you.
Not to put words in my friend Jethro's mouth, but I think the concern he, and others here, have expressed is that if the weight loss is the result of an eating plan that is so radically different from what you consider the "norm," and you view it as means to a finite end, after which you stop using it, it doesn't help you develop the new approach to food that most folks need in order to maintain their lower weight. It might work for you, and I hope it does, but it doesn't work for the majority. If the eating plan that lost the weight for you is jettisoned at the end of the loss, it's almost unbelievably easy to revert to the ways that got you overweight in the first place. Most of us, me included, need to learn new attitudes and approaches to nutrition that are sustainable long-term or we have no hope for survival.