I have just entered my regular Sunday morning weigh-in result onto my Tracker ( 145.5 pounds, 1.5 pounds under target) and have realised that it is exactly two years since I reached maintenance, for the first time!
Unfortunately that happy state of affairs lasted only until the end of September '13, when a variety of totally inexcusable reasons led me to take my eye off the ball and meant that by January 2014 I was thirteen and a half pounds back over my target at eleven stone, four and a half pounds (160.5 pounds)!
This may sound like bad news - but for me it was still a kind of a win because I had not entered the new year at anything less than twelve stone for many, many years and I was still ten and a quarter pounds down on the previous January!
So, I buckled down and by my 65th birthday in March'14 I was back down to my target and there I have stayed, holidays and family visits apart, over the intervening months. January '15, saw me at only a remarkable, 3.5 pounds over target and that was gone within a week!
I don't think that my weight is ever going to simply vary by just a pound or two, as witnessed by my Tracker, but this WOL is giving me the ability to manage my weight in a way which I have never succeeded in achieving during over forty years of yo-yo dieting.
Huge thanks must go to 'straight' 5:2 and the members of this fabulous forum for helping me to achieve a degree of weight stability that I had long imagined was out of my reach!