Hope I'm allowed to have a diary in this section as maintaining is something I have never achieved before so I'd really like to be able to update this regularly.
So last week I finally hit my target of 9:13. I have scales that give eighths of pounds too so my actual weight was....
I have yo'yo'd with my weight in the past and lost it via SW, but this year I changed my eating habits and started running, which I adore, so things are VERY different for me this time round. Nevertheless, there is still an element of terror surrounding the word "maintenance". Ideally I would like to be around 9:10 so that I remain within the nines as my body naturally fluctuates, but seeing as the last pound from ten stone took me two weeks to lose, I assumed that my body had settled and didn't want to lose any more.
I decided to stick with my usual eating of fasting on Monday and Weds, 16:8 on Friday and sticking to 1480 calories on my normal-eating days. Surprisingly as the week progressed, I effortlessly dropped a further pound, down to nine, twelve and three quarters. But then the weekend happened and I became a couch potato as the weather was poor... and I baked and may have licked a spoon or two....
Anyway, a week later and I weigh exactly... to the eighth of a pound.... the same as I did last Monday! So my first week of maintenance has gone well!
So last week I finally hit my target of 9:13. I have scales that give eighths of pounds too so my actual weight was....
I have yo'yo'd with my weight in the past and lost it via SW, but this year I changed my eating habits and started running, which I adore, so things are VERY different for me this time round. Nevertheless, there is still an element of terror surrounding the word "maintenance". Ideally I would like to be around 9:10 so that I remain within the nines as my body naturally fluctuates, but seeing as the last pound from ten stone took me two weeks to lose, I assumed that my body had settled and didn't want to lose any more.
I decided to stick with my usual eating of fasting on Monday and Weds, 16:8 on Friday and sticking to 1480 calories on my normal-eating days. Surprisingly as the week progressed, I effortlessly dropped a further pound, down to nine, twelve and three quarters. But then the weekend happened and I became a couch potato as the weather was poor... and I baked and may have licked a spoon or two....
Anyway, a week later and I weigh exactly... to the eighth of a pound.... the same as I did last Monday! So my first week of maintenance has gone well!
Impressed, or what! 
well done you 
well done , brilliant achievement
