Jillian04's Journal, 21 April 2011

I had to write a new journal for this new information I just found which makes complete sense. I read this medical article that says you should strive to lose 10% body weight at a time. Once you have lost that 10% you should maintain it for 6 months and then restart. Once you have maintained this weight for an extended period of time your body then "resets" itself or adjusts to that weight.
This article made a lot of sense to me with all the flucuations I see in my weight loss. So starting next week I'm going to start a maintence program.
First I am going to get back down to 128 after easter; then I will maintain that weight for a few weeks by eating 1200 calories (as I do now)- I add calories for what I burn off in exercise. Then I will slowly add calories 100 at a time for a few weeks until I reach my calorie goal to maintain 128 (around 1500). As long as I am maintain this weight through summer I will be happy and then sometime at the end to beginning of next year I can cut my calories back to 1200 to lose the last few pounds I was strving for if I still feel I need to lose them.
I plan on continuing my exercise during this time and watching what I eat and how much but I think this is the most realistic plan for me to keep it off.
Hopefully this works for me and I can stay happy with my body!