I have often welcomed those who have lost 100+ lbs (~ 50 kg , ~7 stone) to “the club” and joked that club meetings were on Thursdays. I recently suggested that we try out having a regular weekly thread to talk about issues that are particular to those who have lost 100+ lbs, those who are well on their way and those who are just at the beginning of a journey this big.
Welcome back to the Century Club! Each week I will provide a topic of the day that has been on my mind or inspired by previous posts. However you are free to talk about any topics you think might be relevant to current and prospective club members.
Previous Topics: Fun! - Rhythms - How strict? - Relationships - Loose Skin Redux - Multiple Centuries - April Fools! - What didn't work? - Milestones - Seasonal changes - Is it worth it? - Surprising Food Facts - Mistakes were made - Time to Vent - Relief Valves - Seeing Objectively - Tips you hate - Fear and Self-Loathing - Starting - 2020 recap
Years!
Tomorrow will mark the one year anniversary of these Century Club threads! What a strange year it has been! Sometimes it has felt like the year would never end and at other times it just flew by.
This anniversary puts me in mind of the relative nature of time. When I first started planning out my journey, it seemed essentially impossible to envision my "dieting" for a whole year, and it wasn't even a sure thing that I could reach my goals in a single year. I had never watched what I eat for longer than about 3 months and found that to be draining.
Next week I will celebrate 1200 days of logging my food in MFP. I've been in maintenance at a normal BMI for over a year and a half now after spending just under two years going from 275 to <170 lbs.
Later this summer, I will have circled the sun 54 times and I expect to be around for another 20-40 orbits. In that context, the 1-4 years required for most people to be able to lose 100+ lbs seems largely insignificant. Those years are going to pass no matter what, and even if you are only losing at an average rate of 2 lbs/month (~0.5 lbs/week) you too can still lose 100 lbs in just about 4 years!
And on the other end, if you limit your weight loss to an average rate of < 1% body weight/week (recommended MAXIMUM average rate for weight loss without medical supervision) you can only lose 100+ lbs in a year if your SW is heavier than 245 lbs.
For me it was essential that I put that time spent in the right context. I didn't want to "diet" and lose the weight quickly just to put it back on, it was all about learning how to eat and move so that I could STAY a smaller person for the next 20-40 years and developing those habits that will help me stay here. Even though I could have planned to lose 105 lbs in a year given my SW, the routine required to do so would have been quite different to how I needed to behave at 170 lbs. In that context the 2 years I planned my journey to take were a small price to pay rather than a huge obstacle.
Of course that doesn't mean that I don't expect to have to make slight course corrections, or adjustments to my processes, along the way! The past 3+ years have all been in preparation for the next couple of decades.
How about you Centurion? How do you put the year(s) your journey is going to take in context and accept that you can't just hit "Undo" and instantly be at your goal weight?
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