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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have worked really hard and have lost 20 lbs by exercising 5-6 days a week, giving up all alcohol, all restaurant dinners, all sweets except small portion-controlled things like a WW ice cream bar, and counting every calorie.  Being really strict and rigid is the only way I can lose weight, and it has worked great for me.  But now I am a bundle of anxiety about keeping the weight off.  For example, we have a fancy birthday dinner with friends planned in a couple of weeks, and I'm already feeling nervous about it.  I obviously want to be able to enjoy special occasions with food and wine, but have an irrational amount of anxiety about gaining back the weight I've worked so hard to lose.  Anybody else struggle with this after losing weight?  How did you deal with the anxiety?[/quote]

I'm embracing and using the anxiety.  If I have a great meal out, I eat clean the next day or week if it was a big weekend.  There's nothing I deny myself but I've replaced volume with "tastes" I really want and it's working for me.  I find I don't need a whole slice of cake anymore or a huge steak.  The only down side is the food waste , e.g. I'll have one piece of pizza and eat the toppings off the rest or order multiple appetizers mixed between healthy and treats (most of which turn into take home that tends to be later tossed).   But I don't care.  If that's the price I pay for maintaining, it's worth it to feel like I do.  (Not that I wouldn't rather donate the food I don't touch but there's really no practical way to do that.)[/quote]

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