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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You seem really attached to a number, which is not the matrix I use. How do you feel? Is the calorie counting, etc sustainable? What is different about your life now at 125 than it was at 130, 135? Long-term what are the sacrifices you'll need to make to drop lower?

And stop and think for a minute...has there ever been a point in your life where you were content with your weight? Maybe now's the time to do that?

And thinking beyond weight...do you have other fitness goals? [/quote]

These are really great questions.  I'd never focused on the number before this summer, so it's all new to me.  I've done the big fitness goals in the past, but I just don't feel like I have the capacity to do one right now.  I'm a pretty avid cyclist (bike commute 5 days/week), and ultimately I'd like to train for a century, but I just can't focus on that right now.

The food is really the problem for me, and I don't trust myself not to just go back to my old eating habits without at least a bit of calorie tracking.  So I'm just stuck on whether I should be focusing on eating to maintain or to lose.

As if it isn't already clear enough, I'm a pretty disciplined, goal-oriented person, and this is the first time I've applied those characteristics to weight loss.  So I'm just trying to find my way here.

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