The thing that eventually worked for me was originally setting out to lose a fairly small amount of weight, then using the slimming club as a monitor while I spent about a year iirc working out what lifestyle I needed to follow in order to keep my weight stable and making any changes required to support that way of life.
Every six months or a year I could then go back and lose another 7 or so pounds, because then I knew what to do to keep it off.
What also helped was that the weight loss was just a means to an end - the real goals were (1) avoiding the family history of diabetes & heart trouble and (2) reducing my raging PMT.
I wish you luck - losing weight is easy, maintaining weight loss is really really hard. Favourite tip: the "I did it!" stories in Fitness Magazine (a relatively sane publication).
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Speaking as an experienced dieter :)
Date: June 14th, 2005 02:08 pm (UTC)From:Every six months or a year I could then go back and lose another 7 or so pounds, because then I knew what to do to keep it off.
What also helped was that the weight loss was just a means to an end - the real goals were (1) avoiding the family history of diabetes & heart trouble and (2) reducing my raging PMT.
I wish you luck - losing weight is easy, maintaining weight loss is really really hard. Favourite tip: the "I did it!" stories in Fitness Magazine (a relatively sane publication).