My WW Buddy Nichole (Hi Nichole) posted on our
maintenance thread about the March 17, 2015 Refuse to Regain blog post. In it Barbara wrote,
“Maintenance is
where it's at, pure and simple. Clinicians, including those who wrote the
Lancet paper, will tell you that a weight loss of 5-10% is medically
significant. Personally, that bar is too low for me. If you have lost weight
and are maintaining a weight of around 15% less than what you originally
weighed, you are a superstar. This is true even if you originally lost 20% or
more of your heaviest weight. Perfect maintenance is tough and rare. But excellent
maintenance is something to be very much celebrated. “
See more at: http://www.refusetoregain.com/2015/02/successful-weight-loss-stop-celebrating-and-go-to-battle-stations.html
If you subtract my starting weight of 304.8 and my WW
weight from two weeks ago, 198.4, that is a loss of 106.4 pounds. This means I am maintaining 35% of my
original weight and clearly, I am a ROCK STAR. Barbara said so.
We all beat ourselves up over re-gain. We are human and it is natural. You all know I have been doing plenty of that
over the last year. Taking a step back
to look at the bigger picture can provide new insight. Thanks Nichole for posting this blog as it
was a good read.
Like with any type of re-gain that doesn’t mean I don’t
still have to work on this. I am glad I
made this last week a positive one.
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