Originally Posted by
CraigB
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.
Again, I totally agree. If you don't have an eating plan for the future, then don't bother losing the weight because it is going to come back. It may come back even if you have an eating plan because of other health problems that may keep a person from being able to exercise or a person may have to start taking medication which will cause weight gain.
I am hoping to get the weight off quickly and with God's help I am pretty much where I want to be. My plan is to start adding more of the same foods that I am currently eating when I reach the weight that I want. If my weight starts back up I will guess that I added too much food and will reduce it back to the original amount to get back to the weight that I want to be and then again add a little less of the same foods back to my diet.
I know that I make this seem so simple but I do really realize that it is a desperate battle and it has to be fought to exhaustion each day. This is very wearing on everyone that is trying to lose weight. It is a great sacrifice to go without the foods that we all love to eat. I know that I am not perfect on my diet but all anyone can do is their best effort. I have been diabetic for 15 years and it truly sucks not being able to eat what you want. I love it when I look in a diabetic diet and it says that I can have 5 peanuts. I can't even taste 5 peanuts. How about lets go 500 peanuts and now we would be talking.
This may sound really crazy but I am hoping that if I continue to eat as I am that I will reach a point (165 lb) where I just quit losing weight. This would mean that I can continue to eat the small amount of food that I am eating and keep my blood sugars in check and not have to try to adjust my diet to stop losing. I pretty much think that I will never be able to eat sugar, wheat, oats, corn, ice cream, high sugar fruits, potatoes, chips, cereal, and just about any other foods that you can think of. But now if I could get my upper stomach removed my diabetes would probably be cured and then I could eat all these foods and gain 100 lbs. So I just can't win. So I give up and relegate myself to eating foods that most kids would refuse to put in their mouths.