New weight maintenance recommended.

Deb wanted to tell you our story is similar.  I had surgery 3/11/2005.  Lowest weight was 128 for about five minutes, ended up at 135--happy and stable for seven years.  DH had major health event, 15 weeks in hospitals, stayed with him 24/7, lived out of vending machines.  Gained during this period.  DH is better but mild brain damage.  Have not been able to get weight off.  Weighing 153 this morning after stressful week of uncontrolled eating.  Neighbor friends are starting Adkins, so plan to join them.  Good luck on your plan.  If interested in tracking together let me know.    

Hi Ruby, I am sorry to hear your hubby was in the hospital, it is difficult to keep on your eating plan with stress, and non healthy food around for you to eat. I have been there too. We don't cook much with the two of us,so it is eating out

a lot - Yes it would be cool to track out weight and encourage each other, we can do this! I don't know how to track my weight with you but if you do let me know. Anything you post to me here goes to my e-mail address. Take care and I do mean take care of yourself first, then taking care of hubby will go easier! God bless.

I will be seven years in October.  I buy into this 100%.

Weighing twice a day is not excessive or OCD.  It is staying aware of where you have been and where you are going.  Every time in my life that I have bought into hiding the scale and just using diet and exercise to stay healthy, I have been at least seven pounds heavier when I finally weighed myself.

I had a fourteen pound regain starting at month 30.  That took three months, a blissful summer with no scale worries.  Except that I was seeing my family doctor for something unrelated to weight that summer and had to get on his scale every month.  The first month I saw a three pound gain and sort of laughed about it.

The next month another three pounds, which I completely stayed in denial about and continued with my personal scale safely out of sight under a bed.  By Fall I had gained fourteen pounds, got the scale out, started Weigh****chers, and never put the scale away again.

Getting on the scale just shows where you are.  It is the difference between driving a car with your eyes open or driving with a blindfold on and trusting that you will just get you your destination without having to look. 

Fiber is a big problem for me.  Adding some oatmeal to a shake is brilliant. I have never gone back to shakes after having my weight gain.  But I do weigh daily and often more than once a day.  I have not graphed my weight and will start doing that today with a spreadsheet.  I do not believe that bounceback would have been as much for me if I had been weighing every morning. 

But bounceback is a reality when the intestines start absorbing more calories.  Mine stopped when I started weighing, but I never lost all of it and it is always stalking me. 

White Dove, thank you for joining in on this new information. I have to agree that weighing myself more often - is a great help. I took the stand, out of sight,out of mind. Who ever reads this Please keep the scales close by. I do 

need to keep a check on things. This is MY life and I am a "designer model 2005" LOL, I am different now and old habits can not come back into my life. Again Thank you White Dove for sharing what you are doing and that is

helping you and therefore others will be helped too!