Weight Management, and how to deal with weight loss

Hi all,

Just some context: In the last 10 years, my whole adult life, I have been up and down 10-20 kgs around 5 times. I'm pretty efficient losing weight, and it is not difficult to keep it off in normal times, but during very stressful periods of time, from two weeks to one month, I can easily get 10 kg back, and this happened every time.

Now that I'm on the weight loss mode again, I have been reflecting what went wrong each time. My relationship with food, when not on a diet nor during of those stressful events, is pretty healthy, so I don't think my eating habits are too blame. Of course, coping with emotional and psychological problems with food is the root of the issue, but I don't think this will ever be something that I will suppress completely, but at most something I will learn how to deal with.

What is going through my mind rn is that I have always treated weight loss like a task, and that I should start dealing with it as if it were (perhaps it is?) a disease. After I lose this weight again, I cannot think that this was the last time and stop worrying about it. Something stressful will come up and I may use food as a coping mechanism again. What I have to do is treat it like a disease. Never stop going to the nutrionist/psychologist/personal trainer and evaluating my weight situation. Continue to measure my weight/body composition frequently and continuously. It doesn't have to be the on the top of my mind, but it has to be something I think about every once in a while for it not go out of control. This way, if things start going off rail, I can act quickly and not spiral out of control again.

Any thought and feedback are more than welcome!

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