Been dieting since January, down 30 lbs, losing my motivation

[Anonymous]

With the cooler weather and clothes that can hide weight, I’m losing my motivation for CICO. I find myself overeating (3000 cal per day) multiple days a week. The weight is creeping back up. Help! How do you stay motivated in the fall/winter? (I also suffer from SAD, so I’m anxious about losing daylight as well…)

[Anonymous]

Routines and meal planning.

[Anonymous]

Instead of dieting, how about exercise? I think that does a better job maintaining weight than to diet.

[Anonymous]

Look at pics of yourself 30lbs. ago. That should be all the motivation you need.

[Anonymous]

Don’t give up! Find some activities you enjoy outside in fall—hiking, biking, etc. Recreate your fall/cold weather associations to be healthier. Make delicious hearty, but healthy fall soups, get some cute form-fitting sweaters that show off your figure. Go apple picking! Visualize how great you will feel seeing family at Thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

Enter a maintenance period in terms of diet (the amount you can eat to maintain your current weight) and work on your exercise routine like adding strength training and your diet in terms of nutritional quality. Stop thinking about losing weight and think about health instead. Weigh yourself everyday to make sure you are really maintaining. But it sounds like you could lose a dieting break. Forced plateaus like this often helped with long-term maintenance anyway. Maybe maintain for October, diet in November, maintain in December and diet in January.

[Anonymous]

Go outside more - lots of walks and drink a herbal tea instead of eating that extra snack. Only you can really motivate yourself, no one here.
You've done so well by losing 30lbs -that is fabulous. Keep going!

[Anonymous]

This is why dieting isn't sustainable. Find where your body is comfortable when you are moving, and also eating a balanced healthy diet.

I don't know a single person who did intense restriction who kept the weight off long term without having a reasonable idea of where there maintenance weight was.

I don't want to be de-motivational, but I'm alarmed by the posters who just assume smaller=better and would say "keep going" knowing NOTHING about what OP's health is actually like. Smaller is not better if you have to stay in restriction full time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why dieting isn't sustainable. Find where your body is comfortable when you are moving, and also eating a balanced healthy diet.

I don't know a single person who did intense restriction who kept the weight off long term without having a reasonable idea of where there maintenance weight was.

I don't want to be de-motivational, but I'm alarmed by the posters who just assume smaller=better and would say "keep going" knowing NOTHING about what OP's health is actually like. Smaller is not better if you have to stay in restriction full time.

Oh Feck you sideways lady. No one here is claiming to be a registered dietician. We're here to support each other. You need to find a forum for nasty moaners, where you'll fit in perfectly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why dieting isn't sustainable. Find where your body is comfortable when you are moving, and also eating a balanced healthy diet.

I don't know a single person who did intense restriction who kept the weight off long term without having a reasonable idea of where there maintenance weight was.

I don't want to be de-motivational, but I'm alarmed by the posters who just assume smaller=better and would say "keep going" knowing NOTHING about what OP's health is actually like. Smaller is not better if you have to stay in restriction full time.

Oh Feck you sideways lady. No one here is claiming to be a registered dietician. We're here to support each other. You need to find a forum for nasty moaners, where you'll fit in perfectly.

You can feck however you want. I don't think a "lose no matter the health cost" mind set is helpful. Your post shows how engrained that is. Good luck with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why dieting isn't sustainable. Find where your body is comfortable when you are moving, and also eating a balanced healthy diet.

I don't know a single person who did intense restriction who kept the weight off long term without having a reasonable idea of where there maintenance weight was.

I don't want to be de-motivational, but I'm alarmed by the posters who just assume smaller=better and would say "keep going" knowing NOTHING about what OP's health is actually like. Smaller is not better if you have to stay in restriction full time.

Oh Feck you sideways lady. No one here is claiming to be a registered dietician. We're here to support each other. You need to find a forum for nasty moaners, where you'll fit in perfectly.

Pp was right, you don’t know anything about OP, what if she was 130 pounds and now she is 100 pounds and 5’5”, would you say keep going?

[Anonymous]

Take a two week planned break eating at maintenance. Then get back on diet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why dieting isn't sustainable. Find where your body is comfortable when you are moving, and also eating a balanced healthy diet.

I don't know a single person who did intense restriction who kept the weight off long term without having a reasonable idea of where there maintenance weight was.

I don't want to be de-motivational, but I'm alarmed by the posters who just assume smaller=better and would say "keep going" knowing NOTHING about what OP's health is actually like. Smaller is not better if you have to stay in restriction full time.

Oh Feck you sideways lady. No one here is claiming to be a registered dietician. We're here to support each other. You need to find a forum for nasty moaners, where you'll fit in perfectly.

Pp was right, you don’t know anything about OP, what if she was 130 pounds and now she is 100 pounds and 5’5”, would you say keep going?

Are you new to DCUM? It's entirely anonymous and no one knows anything about anyone else, unless they tell you, and often then it isn't always true. Wind your neck back in.

[Anonymous]

If PP is eating 3000 calories a day multiple days/week seems fair to advise dialing it back.

[Anonymous]

The Half Size Me podcast and website has good advice, instruction, and just general support for working "maintenance breaks" into weight loss and then maintaining once you hit your goal weight. It's realistic about finding a lifelong nutrition and exercise plan you can live with contentedly and sustainably.