New system

I have decided that I should change the way that I lose weight. Let me explain. I go hungry, eat protein and try to not have treats. That's fine, but the amount I lose each day (or week, or month) is relatively uncontrolled. That's because I generally try my best and that's it. The plan was to lose about 100g a day until I finished.

The plan seemed fine until one of life's changes came along - not a good change, but one nonetheless. I'm not yet ready to divulge to a great degree the intimate details of my life, so apologies if I don't yet tell you. Anyway, that change meant that there was less demand on me to lose weight in a prompt manner. So I have decided that I'll do it differently - rather than lose weight as much as I can, I'll slow it down and have some control on the process.

Because I weigh myself everyday, I decided that I want to weigh a specific weight each day, as close as possible. If I weigh more, I go into diet mode. If I weigh less, I don't go into diet mode. I repeat this process many, many times until I have trained myself to maintain a constant weight, eating well but not gaining. That will take months, no doubt just to train myself.

Another concern is that I reach my goal weight, and what happens? Will I bounce back? I did that in 2001, although there were external issues providing stress in my life.

So my plan is to start off, losing a small amount each day (50g - 350g a week) and slowly increase this until I find it more and more difficult to keep up. When I reach this value, I stay there (or reduce if I am having major problems) until I am 90 days away from the goal. I figure 90 days, 3 months is a nice short period that most people can tolerate. There I will stay, always being 90 days away from the target weight. In other words, the closer I get, the slower I lose weight.

What this means is that I will theoretically never reach my goal weight, although I am sure I will reach it sometime in the future. But it will mean that there won't be a 'bump' as I reach my goal. I won't have to change my eating as the change will be so small that I won't notice it. Anyway, that's the plan. One disadantage of this system is I never reach my goal, so I can never say "I've made it!". But I decided that if I'm 1kg away, I'm pretty much there.

So today, I want to lose 50 grams. Tomorrow, 51, etc etc. I'll graph the amounts weekly so people can see where I'm at. Yes, it adds time to losing weight, but I've been here so long, I don't really care.