5 months and almost 60 pounds later it comes to this: the last two weeks...the last 3ish pounds. I'll be on Phase 2 August 11 no matter what. I want to be into maintenance when John and I go to Italy in September. I'd really love to be at my goal, but since I figure I'll be back on Phase 1 after Italy (if the wine doesn't do me in the pasta will!) I'm OK with not being all the way there.
One of the videos I got from IP was about how to think about maintenance. Its like tiny corrections and bigger corrections. They compared it to driving a car and staying in the lane. You naturally make small adjustments while driving to stay in the middle of your lane due to wheel alignment, road conditions etc. If you doze off and hit the rumble strips you make a larger correction.
The same goes for weight loss maintenance. The suggestion was to pick a weight that would signal the need for small and large corrections.
My correction weights are 3 and 5 pounds. If I go up 3 pounds I'll make mall adjustments, watch the carbs closer, eat more green veg than higher carb veg etc. If I'm up by 5 pounds, larger corrections are in order and I go back on Phase 1 until I'm back at goal. This makes so much sense to me and makes maintaining this loss so much less concerning.
Lindsay and I were just talking today about the structure of Phase 1 versus the potential free for all on maintenance. Lindsay said she thinks I already have the right mindset for maintaining :) This helps bound the problem quite a lot. I don't feel as intimidated now as I did even thinking about it a few weeks ago.
Week 21 -1.2
Total -55.8
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