4a-healthy-bmi's Journal

I lost 186 lbs three years ago and am struggling to keep the weight off.
If you have 4 minutes you can see a synopsis here: http://tinyurl.com/joyfit

I found this site while looking for other maintainers and resources for us. I'm trying to figure out how your challenges work, because they might be pretty useful. Most of my online activity has been with the community of maintainers over here: http://teams.sparkpeople.com/maintaining

Slideshow of my progress:
http://tinyurl.com/4A-HEALTHY-BMI-shrink

Graph of my progress:
http://tinyurl.com/4A-HEALTHY-BMI-graph
(This shows the moving average function that smooths out daily fluctuations - it's a lot of data, so be patient for loading)

Maintenance is a Very Serious and Difficult Issue. 5% of people who lose weight manage to keep it off. I am doing EVERYTHING in my power to be one of them. Some days are better than others, but it really does seem that the key is frequent monitoring and immediate correction. It is important to NEVER give up.