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Yes, it can be done!

I am a micro award winning chutney producer (and no, I am not saying who I am, as I am not here for gain) and have maintained successfully for all of this year and foresee this continuing.
I attend food events left right and centre; samples offered at every opportunity! Conferences with the most wonderful food imaginable! Invitations of the most mouth-watering degree....
And yet, I have maintained!

How is this, I ask myself?

Well, I shall let you into a little secret... but first an apology for nor having been around much. It's not only because of all those social engagements, but I have to make the bloomin' stuff too. So it's not all glamour! However, I do check in often and take note!

It's you lot who've kept me on the straight and narrow!
I could list you all, but I'd get RSI before I finished! Consider yourselves all mole rodels... ooops sorry role models on the most sustainable way of eating yet.

So, take heart, all ye maintainers and nearly maintainers, it can be done against the odds!

RSI from all that chopping, slicing and stirring, surely @Pennyforthem??

Also all the autographs you must be signing on those award winning labels, now stuck to your jars ...

Us and iron will power I should think! Well done for being so restrained x

Well done Pennyforthem. What a thoughtful and encouraging post. But those words encompass your nature. Yes, i think we've stumbled onto something pretty amazing here haven't we?(thanks @Moogie! ) So positive yet realistic. When i see all of us who've been around for a while, greeting newcomers with our weight losses in the 10 and 20's (and more) kg mark i just think Wow- we are living proof that fasting works!
Xxx julianna

So lovely to see you posting PFT. Missed your humour! A very thoughtful post and as always, very inspirational.

I can attest to PFT's chutney making skills, having had the honour of being given a gift of one of her creations. Fabulous. Well done on your maintenance!

Lol! Love it, @PennyForthem - and thanks for posting this. Having just made the jump into maintenance, I'm starting to feel like the real journey is only just beginning. It's inspiring to hear stories like yours that show us that it can be a real WoL that works, as well as a reminder of how great the folks on here are!

Well done @PennyForthem On the maintenance
As for the thanks mine are far bigger back to you
Sue

You and so many like you have made this great forum GREAT!!!

Another recipient of @Pennyforthem 's largesse, she really does make the most fabulous condiments. When I returned with some a few months ago hubs went quite weak at the knees, something I would normally put down to his excess weight but on this occasion no, it was PFT's fabulous produce. One talented and very beautiful lady even if we do have to badger her to believe in herself. Her belief in IF is incredibly infectious and why not? Love you Pen, you are such a stalwart on this forum

Ballerina. X

A chutney celebrity. How exciting!

Do share with us how you changed your diet upon reaching maintenance. This is by far the most critical question in my mind as I near maintenance. Maintaining can be so much tougher than weight loss as you no longer get the reinforcrment of the scale moving.

Great to hear from you Penny and congrats on maintaining while cooking up yer tasty chutney awards too Thanks for your kind call out to those of us who are in reach of maintaining - gliding in slowly and surely.

At 2.30am I should be in the insomniacs tent, Charlie my cat is calling me to bed ..... he is knackered!

Well done, PennyForthem, you must feel very pleased with yourself to be able to manage your food intake when surrounded by so much temptation. Certainly many on this forum are inspirational, particularly those who have had lots of challenges, and there is great support to be had. It would be very useful, as peebles says, to know about other strategies you have used to help.

Best wishes

[wildmissus]

PTF I couldn't agreed with you more. When I greet a newbie I always enthuse about the forum. I have been struggling to get to my target (and still am) for such a long time and on a diet I would have given up many months ago and would be heavier than when I first started fasting. It is you lot that have kept me at a healthy BMI, not me .

I have just started working in the food industry and I had hoped that it would encourage me to try new things and want to make new healthy recipes but alas all I have done is try all the unhealthy stuff . I've actually got to the stage of being sick of that and want to get my low GI cookbooks out. Here's hoping .