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Staying Motivated

spectrachic311 said: "Dr. Cool--Love the car analogy! Just an FYI, the "O2 sensor" that does regulate your body weight is a hormone called leptin. When you start to get over your body's set point weight, leptin levels are increased and your body's appetite gets smaller and you have more energy. When you get too small, you are low on leptin and you have more of an appetite and are a bit more sluggish so you gain weight. My mom is one of those people that has no problem dieting when she needs to lose weight, but she can't maintain a loss either. Part of the problem is the fact that when you make a dietary/exercise change, you need to figure out how you can keep the change for LIFE, not just until you drop 10 pounds. When you want to stop losing, increase your calories a bit and ease up on the working out until you find a calorie balance/exercise amount that keeps you within a 5-10 lb range without making you nuts. If you have to work out 4 hours a day and eat 1200 calories a day to stay at 120 lbs, maybe you need to evaluate your body's set point...it's obviously higher than that."

GreenEyes said: "Hello and welcome GraceFromBoston! :wave: I wish you the best on the South Beach Diet. My Grandmother has been on that plan for a few years and has lost a lot of weight and loves the food too. My motivation is just staying healthy. I have gained some of my weight back but I feel much healthier these days. I just try to stay active and eat well and if I drop weight it's even better. I try not to stress about the scale so much. Like Dbrew said, it's better to go by how your clothes are fitting, rather than the number on the scale. BTW, I love the name Grace. My daughter's name is Grace :) And my hubby is from the Boston area too...LOL"

DBrew said: "For me, I just try really hard to make sure my clothes fit. They are the best indicators of size a person has apart from a scale. I do not like being overweight at all so that helps, too."

Creaton Diva said: "Welcome to Feathrish Grace. Yes I understand that you have a hard time grasping the idea of maintaining the weight and at the same time wondering how you're going to stay from temptation foods such as Cake Fast Food any form of carbohydrates such as Pasta Bread etc I'm learning how to keep them out of my system too but I wish I had bought some type of cake to bake today"

Diamond said: "Hello and welcome to Featherish, Grace. I think that you hit it on the head, it has to be more of a lifestyle change than a fad diet that you're going to grow weary of a few months down the road. As for exercise, try doing something that you enjoy and is fun, that way you'll want to keep doing it. Are you following a particular diet right now?"

DrCOOL959 said: "Weight loss in general is a mental game. You have to be very careful though, it is a fine line between being successful and having an eating disorder. That out of the way, As far as maintaining goes, I am very mechanical in nature. Love machines. You could relate maintaining your weight to a fuel injected car maintaining air/fuel mixture by use of an O2(oxygen) sensor. An O2 Sensor in a car cycles back and forth from lean to rich based on a chemical reaction from the composition of the exhaust gas that produces a voltage that the car's computer can use to regulate the amount of fuel being injected. Much the same you might cycle weight within a certain range. Suppose your maintaining your weight between 145 and 150lbs. You weigh in 1 week at 146.8 Next Week 146.0 Next Week 145.8 Your cycling "lean" so your "Oxygen" sensor tells you more fuel/food. You eat more and you weigh in 1 week later at 145.8 next week 146.5 next week 147.8 your "Oxygen" Sensor tells you your running rich....time to reduce fuel/food, and the proccess repeats while always aiming to stay in the butter zone of say 147.5. or 14.7:1 air fuel ratio...if your a car...:) Now one thing the car scenario doesn't have is exercise, since while you may be running rich if your exercising your balance may still be okay. DrCOOL959"

Amber said: "I'm in the same boat. I have no motivation to lose weight. :("

RudyOrtiz67 said: "Fear causes constant anxiety though. This is not very good for health."

GracefromBoston said: "I have been overweight for most of my life. I can honestly say that I have no problem losing or gaining weight. However, I find it extremely difficult to stay the same weight or maintain a goal weight. I always start a new diet with great motivation and often do very well for 3 months. Then I hit the wall and I fall completely off the wagon by gaining the weight back very quickly. I realize that long term success requires permanent life changes, however, I have so much trouble staying motivated to eat right and exercise after the first few months. Does anyone care to share their source of motivation/inspiration? THANKS!"

GracefromBoston said: "Thanks for the warm welcome. I am currently on the South Beach Diet. So far, it is going well, but time will tell!"

paulduncan said: "Using fear can be a good motivational tool First of all losing weight and gaining weight regularly is not really good for your body.As you have mentioned permanent weight loss is a lifestyle change and not using diets and methods which give temporary weight loss. As for the motivation think of what will happn if you don't make lifestyle changes. Heart attack/strokes Diabetes Cancers Bone disease Respiratory problems Low Confidence/Self Image Using hospitals as a second home Your best friends are doctors Movement restrictions Fatigue Just imagine yourself a few years down the line in a hospital bed.Lying there being told that nothing can be done for you.Imagine what would be going through your mind.Picture your family and friends and how upset they are going to be knowing that they are going to lose you. On the flip side of the coin,imagine what you are going to look like and how you are going to feel in 12 months time having done what you set out to do.What will all that mean to you? I say 12 months because losing weight for the long term is a slow process.Of course you can lose a good deal of weight in a few months but will it last?Ideally you should look at losing around 2 pounds week.That is safe and achievable and won't play havoc with your mind or your body. It doesn't sound like a lot but over 6 months it's a loss of around 40 pounds,and it would have been achieved without torturing yourself. Regarding exercise you need to give yourself a goal to aim for apart from weight loss.Exercise does get boring for most of us,to stop it becoming boring,give yourself an aim.Take up a sport or aim to run half a marathon at some date in the future.If you have a target to aim for you have a better chance of hitting it."