I'm just curious and want something kind of like a roll call to see where we're all at.

I'll be three years out in one month and I'm five pounds away from my pre pregnancy weight and eight pounds away from my original goal.

If you're at goal, how long have you been maintaining within a 5 pound window?

If you're not at goal, how far do you have to go?

How do you transition your mind and eating from loss to maintenance or back to loss from maintenance? Do you go back to basics, restrict calories, get more active, etc.?

I'd like to see some experiences shared here. I'm finding that I just don't make the time to come to VST much anymore. Sure, there's a small measure of burnout (I just avoid most of the topics when I do come around) and sure, I just had a baby a few months ago. But I think a major thing is that I don't like being here as a vet and not at my goal weight. It's silly, because this is exactly where I should be as I'm trying to lose.

I'm struggling. Eating isn't that bad. I'm very fortunate, because I've read a number of threads lately where even vets are having trouble with non-stop hunger or food thoughts. I'm not dealing with that.

But I maintained so easily. I'm not bragging...it's just how it was, and I honestly feel like I deserved it after struggling for 17 months to lose 107 pounds a tenth of a pound at a time! Transitioning from maintenance to pregnancy to loss again SUCKS. I hate it. I log my food and I track and no, I don't feel hungry (thank goodness) and I don't really want to graze or binge (thankfully) but I feel like the SLOWEST LOSER IN THE UNIVERSE and I'm really struggling with my body image and with the idea that I have to eat 700-900 calories a day, and skip the extra cups of coffee and actually pay attention to what I eat.

I want to be lazy again, honestly. I want to be back in maintenance, back at goal and I want my size 5/6 pants to fit perfectly, without being slightly snug. I want to go back to hopping on the scale each morning and not minding if I see the number go up a touch one day and down a bit the next, because I'm already in my maintenance window and a small change won't hurt. I want to see progress again!

I cannot wrap my head around making this transition smooth. It's not a huge amount of stress but there is a very real underlying fear that if I don't manage to get back into loss mode mentally, too, that I won't ever lose the weight and I'll slide into regaining.

Where are the rest of you on this?

~Cheri

Be careful where you poop when running!

Haha! That's the first thing I thought of when butter answered

Haha! That's the first thing I thought of when butter answered

Bwahahah, you would have to be super hard core to do this in public on a city block. Must had been a total emergency or they know exactly what they can get away with, except the didn't. I think BTB said way, way back in a running thread that he strictly does his business in the woods while trail running...at least only the bears and deer will be watching, and the occasional bird watcher. no offense intended BTB; hopefully, none taken.

Maybe she learned it from her dog!

I took a pic this morning to update my FB profile and realized that I was dressed almost exactly like I was 3 years ago prior to VSG. So here's my TBT photo for all those struggling or making it or need some encouragement or just sharing in the love!! We are winners if we keep trying !

Georgia you look so good!

Georgia you look so good!

Thanks, Friend!

I took a pic this morning to update my FB profile and realized that I was dressed almost exactly like I was 3 years ago prior to VSG. So here's my TBT photo for all those struggling or making it or need some encouragement or just sharing in the love!! We are winners if we keep trying !

BEAUTIFUL GEORGIA!!!

Great picture Georgia!

I don't even know how to post a picture

Great picture Georgia!

I don't even know how to post a picture

I didn't either til I saw the little + sign on top by send button. Wha la! You can add pics from there!

I don't know how much this cast weighs. It's going to be hard to figure out how much I weigh today!

I don't know how much this cast weighs. It's going to be hard to figure out how much I weigh today!

Lay your arm across the scale first and then subtract that from your total. might work

I took a pic this morning to update my FB profile and realized that I was dressed almost exactly like I was 3 years ago prior to VSG. So here's my TBT photo for all those struggling or making it or need some encouragement or just sharing in the love!! We are winners if we keep trying !

Go Georgia! Love the side by side. You look happy and healthy now.

Lynda

Georgia...all I can say is "awesome"!

Georgia...all I can say is "awesome"!

Thanks, Friend!

Looking good, Georgia!

~Cheri