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Post by bbbearsmom on Dec 12, 2023 23:49:59 GMT
Beck Diet Solution
Chapter 11: When to Stop Losing and Start Maintaining
The important part of this chapter is making the point that there is a “lowest achievable weight” and a “lowest maintainable weight.”
“Your lowest achievable weight is the weight at which you naturally plateau.”
“Your lowest maintainable weight is the weight you can sustain permanently, while still following a sensible eating and exercise plan.”
When you get to a weight plateau (Weight Watchers definition: six to eight weeks at about the same weight while following the plan perfectly) the question to ask is: are you willing to do more work to lose more weight? If you are willing to step up the work, you can do that and see if you continue to lose weight.
You’ll know you are at your lowest maintainable weight when there is a balance between the work you put in and your satisfaction with living your lifestyle. A low weight will not work if you are not satisfied with your lifestyle.
Beck gives these steps to use if you are unhappy because you didn’t end up as thin as you want to be:
Continue to enrich your life.
Focus on the parts of your body that please you the most.
Say to yourself, Oh, well.
Focus on how you’ve improved.
Change your comparison.
Prepare yourself mentally before you weigh yourself.
Accept compliments from others.
Act “as if.”
For those of you losing weight, have you given thought to your goal weight?
For those that are maintaining a weight loss how did you decide to stop losing and start maintaining?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Dec 12, 2023 23:58:10 GMT
My doctor suggested that I get down to a BMI of 23, which I thought of as crazy since the last time I had lost weight I had gotten down to the top of the normal weight range for me, stayed there two minutes and regained. But when I got to the top of my range, I wasn't tired of losing so I kept going. When I got down to a BMI of 23, I kept going a little. My leader pointed it out to me and asked me if I really wanted to get that low. I realized I had to stop losing at some point and a BMI of 23 was fine. My theory at the time was when you lose weight, and you are good at it after years of not being able to do it you hate to stop doing it because it was such a hard-won battle, but it is not healthful to keep losing. I added a few points and maintained. I was not one of those that added points at maintenance and kept losing.
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Post by cathygeha on Dec 13, 2023 9:18:28 GMT
Okay...I have hit plateaus and waited them out to see a drop...and not seen a drop sometimes. I did reset to maintain instead of lose till the last holiday event is done with (think it will be tomorrow) and then will get back to it again..
THIS LINE hit me HARD today: ...six to eight weeks at about the same weight while following the plan perfectly
When I start in again the part in purple will be my focus again!
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Post by susan092907 on Dec 13, 2023 15:04:19 GMT
This issue of when it's time to call goal is a huge challenge for me, and has been for years. I don't think I've ever been on a plateau, because I've never perfectly followed any plan for any length of time. That also makes it hard for me to say that I can't keep trying to lose more weight. I'm not sure that I've ever really been on maintenance, even after I got to my personal goal weight almost 13 years ago. I feel like I'm always in losing mode, because I'm always losing and then gaining some weight back, so then going back to losing mode.
Also, I've recently been trying to come to terms with a small change in my height in terms of my weight goal. Many years ago, when I set my goal weight with WW, my height was 5' 1/2". I gave my height to WW rounded up to 5'1" and my official goal weight was determined accordingly. But for the last few years, my height has been measured at 5'0". This one inch difference (for WW purposes, and 1/2 " difference in reality) is making a difference of several pounds of what my maximum weight should be per BMI calculations. I'm feeling that I need to change my maximum goal weight now, not officially with WW, but for my own health purposes. Also, I think that WW has lowered its weight ranges, so on the WW website, my weight range is showing lower than it used to be. Between these issues and my concern for measures of abdominal/visceral fat from a health perspective, I'm very concerned about working to get my overall weight to be lower than it's been for a few years. But this has been really hard to do. So I don't really know if or when I'll be ready to consider myself done with losing and working at maintaining.
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Post by ermabom on Dec 15, 2023 12:52:03 GMT
One of the reasons I stopped weighing myself is that I want to build a lifestyle that will sustain me for the rest of my life and keep me healthy and active and independent. Weight is only a very small part of that because, luckily for me, my bloodwork has always been good even when I'm overweight. Losing weight hasn't altered those for the better (or worse).
Exercise has. At one time my LDL was high, even though total cholesterol was low. I did some reading and found exercise helps with both triglycerides and LDL and bumped up my exercise. The LDL went down.
That's why I just work on my eating habits, mental health and exercise.
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