Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 11, 2024 22:43:34 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?
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?
