How To Maintain Without Dieting Or Exercising.
I'd rather be where I am right now (BMI 25.9 today.... fluctuates between 25.0 and 26.7) and not really worry, stress, think about what I'm eating, than be a lower BMI through constant unrelenting diet and effort.
It's just not worth it to me to be smaller to go to much effort.
For ME this is what life (and my relationship with food) SHOULD be.
And since I'm the one living MY life, that's the best thing ever.
It's just not worth it to me to be smaller to go to much effort.
For ME this is what life (and my relationship with food) SHOULD be.
And since I'm the one living MY life, that's the best thing ever.
~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!
Add me to the list of "MAYBE I could get down another 10 pounds (and MAYBE I could stay there) if I starved myself and lived on Vicodin after killing my bad knees exercising every day... BUT I hate formal exercise and I'd rather eat like an normal person and not obsess over food for the rest of my life" crowd.
I did this to be healthy and reasonably thin (and I can live with being right on the "normal" BMI line with a body fat % of 26), and I was very diligent the first year about leraning a healthy way to eat, so my reward (since I obviously will NEVER be a size 8) is to NOT obsess over what I put in my mouth... because, to me, having to count things forever would be hell. If the weight creeps up 5 pounds, I increase my weater and protein and cut the extra simple carbs... and it comes back off. I can live with that.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Can I join the apathy club too? For my first couple of post-op years, I adhered to a low carb regime, terrified of gaining. I finally became more complacent, and eased up on the carbs. Lo and behold, the regain did not occur. I do try to eat carbs in modest proportions during the week and splurge on the weekends, but I often fail miserably even at that. Still, the scale, aside from hormonal changes, does not change. I have noticed something though.....the more I give myself permission to eat carbs, the less I crave them. I eat what I feel like now - somet days I crave chips, and on other days, I eat only eggs and chicken. It all seems to even out. Even if I did regain, I am still 20 pounds below the upper range of the BMI chart, and hell, I'm 50. I earned the right to have some fluff!
This is me, taken a week ago:
This is me, taken a week ago:
Julie R - Ludington, Michigan
Duodenal Switch 08/09/06 - Dr. Paul Kemmeter, Grand Rapids, Michigan
HW: 282 - 5'4"
SW: 268
GW: 135
CW: 125
Duodenal Switch 08/09/06 - Dr. Paul Kemmeter, Grand Rapids, Michigan
HW: 282 - 5'4"
SW: 268
GW: 135
CW: 125
I have been screaming from the rooftops since before my surgery that I wanted to be normal post op. That's it. Normal to look at on the street, and normal to eat a meal with. I never did the diet-y things that some do, and I never wanted to be stick skinny. I am happy with just being normal ol' me. Now, I don't have the excuses, so I recently started exercising. Once again, not to get stick skinny, but to get strong. Just because I like strong. Anyway, I love you and your posts, and I know that I have a kindred spirit out there.. And I like it! Ha ha
I am still loving life with my sleeve! Been maintaining at or below goal for over 4 years!
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson
On May 25, 2011 at 5:39 AM Pacific Time, Still Fawn wrote:
I have been screaming from the rooftops since before my surgery that I wanted to be normal post op. That's it. Normal to look at on the street, and normal to eat a meal with. I never did the diet-y things that some do, and I never wanted to be stick skinny. I am happy with just being normal ol' me. Now, I don't have the excuses, so I recently started exercising. Once again, not to get stick skinny, but to get strong. Just because I like strong. Anyway, I love you and your posts, and I know that I have a kindred spirit out there.. And I like it! Ha haBelieve nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Buddha
Thank you Heather.. You are beautiful btw.. I am still dealing with the head stuff. I got dressed this morning and had to tell myself ALL day: you can't be fat in a size 3 dress.. Repeat.. I am a weirdo, but I just go through phases where I think I look terrific, and then phases where I am 100% blah.
I am still loving life with my sleeve! Been maintaining at or below goal for over 4 years!
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson
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