The key isn't to just obtain, BUT to maintain!

So I think that I figured out one good reason we fail at successful weight management.

There is a saying that “people prepare for a wedding more than the actual marriage”. Its true when planning a wedding most people go to marital counseling only because they have to or don't go at all. They spend majority of the year fine tuning the details of the day but never prepare on what comes after that day. Perhaps that is why they say the first day of marriage is the hardest.

I think that the same thing holds true with weight loss. I think we spend so much time trying to obtain that “target weight” we don't know how to maintain it after. We are driven by that “number” working hard to obtain it. So we get there, now what? The problem for most like myself isn't obtaining it but maintaining it.

So what is the solution? I don't know really just yet. Perhaps we don't limit ourselves to just that target weight? I am all for setting goals and think it is important. Maybe we focus on the bigger picture and set our eyes on the “lifestyle change” and the target weight will be a blessing reaped from this change in focus.

Like a marriage the lack of communication is the source of many struggling marriage early on, after the honeymoon is over. Well friends I think that the source of disaster after the honeymoon period of weight lose is compromise. Speaking for myself and maybe for some of you. During the weight loss period I discipline myself on how to lose weight but not learning how to live a healthier lifestyle. So when I hit the goal it is like mission accomplished and then its time to compromise. A lil cookie wont hurt, I haven't had it in months, and then a cookie turns into cake and so on and so on.

Now don’t get me wrong there is nothing bad about a lil sweet here or there in moderation. If you are the type like me that has not mastered that discipline just yet it is just best to stay away or find alternatives.

So here is what I am going to do.. I am not just going to count points for weight watchers. In my pursuit of FFF (faith, food & fitness) Fuel I am going to educate myself. Not just how many points a food is, but the other stuff, the salt, fiber, carbs, calories.. Etc. I am going to take a class on nutrition to learn how use “food to live, and not how to live for food” ( as Renay put it)

In pursuit to maintain not just obtain,

Monica