what motivates you to not put on even 1kg

[slimmy120 2]

What do you do if you put on that extra 1 or 2 kg, excercise more? make notes of what you eat?

What weigh daily?

[greytz 4]

I weigh every morning and when I gain a pound or two, I don't eat the same thing I ate the night before. I put that food on my do not eat list until I reach my goal. Just my personal choice to do that. But, keep in mind that Water weight, medication and other personal health factors will cause the scale to creep up and down at any given time of the month.

[loridee11 519]

Hey Slimmy,

I've been off the boards for a while, but I had my band 2 1/2 years ago. I've lost 145 lbs and am about 20 lbs from goal, although I'm pretty darn happy where I'm at.

Being as far out as I am I can eat anything I want and can eat too much as well (I could get my band tightened but I get acid reflux if I go any tighter than 2.5 CC's in my 4 CC bnad). For me, the key to not gaining weight is keeping a food journal. I have an App on my phone which adds everything up and calculates exercise calories burned as well.

One thing to note, I only weigh once a week because I get obsessed with my weight pretty easily. Your weight fluctuates daily naturally and so weighing daily can cause distress that isn't needed. Not everyone has this problem, but if you are weighing daily please watch yourself :scared2:

~Lori

[Jachut 487]

Cut back on the extras first and foremost - I run a lot and I've got quite a healthy metabolism, so I do have a fair bit of room in my diet to eat a few treats. I can maintain on about 1800 calories a day. So I simply remind myself to be aware of the extras.

And I up the exercise just a bit. I might work harder for the same period of time - my version of lazy is just going out with my ipod on, running at a comfy pace and enjoying the music. Well, your body adapts to that. So I do more interval sessions, things that make me come home utterly exhausted.

I am motivated to not put on weight becuase I know how easy it was to just say "oh, 70kg is OK", then "oh, 75kg is okay"..... on the way up and I'm not going there again.

Also with my new shape, I dont hide my body. My clothes fit snugly and I simply dont have the wriggle room I used to. If I gain a kilo, I feel it round the waist! Then I feel self conscious that I've got a muffin top going on. I'm freakishly obsessed with stuff like that, you will NEVER find me with visible bra straps, VPL etc. I will never wear something that shows a roll or doesnt look great on me.

[Donnainva 0]

I will never ever every put on 1kg because I have no idea how to use that measurement.

I will also never put on 1 stone.