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Good plan; this is pretty much what I do when dining out, as well. Sometimes I will even bring along some cooked sweet potatoes from home to add to an order of salad, fruit or broccoli - nobody has ever complained.squealcat wrote: I am thinking about eating at home next time I meet with my friends and maybe just have a fruit bowl and some tea. They really won't mind. I don't think I will either as long as I am not hungry.
A great way to be feeling, I am sure! Building a suitable lifestyle certainly is the practice of a lifetime, yes? Ever onward!Gimmelan wrote:I feel that I have been practicing this way of eating long enough now to know what is right and normal for me. I no longer feel that I’m completely lacking control or will always be trying to strive for an unattainable goal. My weight has remained consistent which is the result of focusing on the 10 point checklist and adherence. It’s taken a lifetime.
wildgoose wrote:Mark will be back soon, responding to all of you (hope you and your family had a great time at the show, Mark!). I just had a couple of thoughts that occurred to me as I was reading this week.
I listen to a lot of lectures and interviews from Dr. Doug Lisle. One of the things that he emphasizes repeatedly is that weight is a matter of equilibrium. Behavior and weight, in balance or not. The goal for weight loss is to be slightly out of balance on the behavior side — where your behavior leads to a way of eating that provides slightly less in terms of calorie density than you need to maintain your current weight. The result: slow, steady weight loss. Eventually, you reach a weight that matches your behavior , and weight loss slows, then stops. You are back in equilibrium.
If the equilibrium weight is not where you want to be, you get to decide how to adjust yourbehavior to tip the balance in favour of weight loss again. Or you may decide that adjusting the behavior further would be too restrictive, and you’re satisfied with the current weight.
If you’re lucky, you reach goal weight before you stop losing, and you get to adjust your behavior in the other direction, to get to equilibrium. This means increasing your overall calorie density a bit until your weight is stable at your goal.
Once the equilibrium weight is where you want to be, you now know that you can stay at that weight as long as you maintain the behavior that got you there. This is where people stumble. They think that once they achieve their goal weight and have stopped losing, they can add a few favourites back in. But that usually tips the equilibrium out of balance on the other side. The result: weight gain and a return to the yo-yo pattern that so many of us have longed to escape.
Most of us test that equilibrium, and we might fluctuate a few pounds up and down. But it’s important, Dr. Lisle says, to find a way of eating that you can stay with, pretty much for the rest of your life. For some of us, that means MWL, or MWL with a few small modifications, as a permanent way of eating.
I can hear the moans. "I couldn’t possibly eat like this forever!" "I long for the day when I can have ________ again!" But after a long time on MWL, if you’re consistent, it doesn’t feel restrictive — it just feels normal. That tasty treat you’ve been craving, if you have it, doesn’t taste as good as you thought it would, and you don’t feel quite as good afterwards as you normally do.
The good news is that if you get unbalanced (either from adding too many foods of higher calorie density or from a period of time like a vacation where you have less than ideal choices), you know what to do. The checklist is always there. The group is here. The behavior is straightforward and clear-cut, even though it might not be easy after a few weeks in the Pleasure Trap. The path to success is never far away.
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