I put on 20 pounds!

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

That is, put BACK on.

I exercise, lead a pretty active life, in decent shape but, I weigh a good 40 pounds too much. Starting January 1, I simply started cutting down on portion control and dropped 20 pounds, pretty easy, by spring, simply by doing what I do, eat what I eat BUT, just eat 2 chili dogs instead of 3, ice cream twice a month instead of 4 or 5. Three pieces of pizza instead of 4.

I tended to be a little hungry all the time but, I was in no way staving or craving. All I had to do was stop eating before I was full, something I'd never done my whole life.

So, there it was, eat, stop, and just get through the next 15 minutes as what I ate caught up with my hunger. Fine. No problem. Food, which I love, started tasting even better. Meals, I looked forward to even more.

And I lost 20 pounds.

Well, somewhere end of summer I have totally gone back to eating until I am full and, as of last night, I found the 20 I lost.

So, today is day one, again, back to eating a portion and then stop.


I'm already hungry for lunch!!!

[vraiblonde]

All that work to lose weight, and just a couple months of snarfing and it all comes right back. That crap pisses me off.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

All that work to lose weight, and just a couple months of snarfing and it all comes right back. That crap pisses me off.

Hey, we know it's a life style change. I just gotta get my head back around accepting it as just the way it is.

I get by.

One day at a time.

[aubriana]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

That is, put BACK on.

I exercise, lead a pretty active life, in decent shape but, I weigh a good 40 pounds too much. Starting January 1, I simply started cutting down on portion control and dropped 20 pounds, pretty easy, by spring, simply by doing what I do, eat what I eat BUT, just eat 2 chili dogs instead of 3, ice cream twice a month instead of 4 or 5. Three pieces of pizza instead of 4.

I tended to be a little hungry all the time but, I was in no way staving or craving. All I had to do was stop eating before I was full, something I'd never done my whole life.

So, there it was, eat, stop, and just get through the next 15 minutes as what I ate caught up with my hunger. Fine. No problem. Food, which I love, started tasting even better. Meals, I looked forward to even more.

And I lost 20 pounds.

Well, somewhere end of summer I have totally gone back to eating until I am full and, as of last night, I found the 20 I lost.

So, today is day one, again, back to eating a portion and then stop.


I'm already hungry for lunch!!!

Blame it on the cooler weather - nature wants you to fatten up for the cold winter months. I could stand to lose 20+ myself. Maybe I should try your approach.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by aubriana

Blame it on the cooler weather - nature wants you to fatten up for the cold winter months. I could stand to lose 20+ myself. Maybe I should try your approach.

Blame it on my love of eating!

Hey, it works. If you take in 3,500-4,500 calories a day like I do, it's really not that much to cut 500. That should be somewhere around a pound a week, keeping the same level of activity. If I can just stick to it...

[glhs837]

I hear ya, Larry. It aint super easy choosing less food, or leaving food on the plate, or god forbid, having fewer tasty beers in a week, but its that or pack on the pounds. And I know theres certainly tougher things in life to face than going with the broiled fish with rice over the Bacon Cheese Burgerama with extra fries.

[libertytyranny]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

All that work to lose weight, and just a couple months of snarfing and it all comes right back. That crap pisses me off.

What pisses me off is that I ate the kind of things he described..I would be obese. "2 chili dogs instead of three" .... yeah.

Men. SO eats one less dorito and drops ten pounds. I eat salad for a month and drop a half a pound.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by libertytyranny

What pisses me off is that I ate the kind of things he described..I would be obese. "2 chili dogs instead of three" .... yeah.

Men. SO eats one less dorito and drops ten pounds. I eat salad for a month and drop a half a pound.

OK, well, I am a pretty big guy so, you only get one chili dog!

[glhs837]

Metabolism was like a damn furnace, now its a toasty campfire:)

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by glhs837

Metabolism was like a damn furnace, now its a toasty campfire:)

Ain't that the truth.