Sarahs Weightloss Blog

Hi Everyone!

So a while back – over a month now! – I decided that I was pretty happy where I was at 68.5kgs, UK size 10-12 and thought I would try to keep it at that for a while, maybe forever.  I’ve been told by others that the hardest thing to do is to maintain your weight after you have lost it.  I think this may be because a lot of people go onto fad diets which are not sustainable in the long term (at least I hope it is!), whereas I have just lowered how much I ate and changed what I ate to be more healthy and exercised.  Surely I can keep this up in the long term and not revert back to super sized Sarah . . . right?

After over a year of strict healthy eating and exercise, you would have thought it would be easy to take off the training wheels and attempt to balance calories in with calories burned, but actually it isn’t all that easy to balance it perfectly.  When you’re losing you just eat less than you burn = losing weight.  But it’s less of a bummer to eat a little less than you thought and lose a little more than eat a bit too much and undo some of your hard work.

Overall I haven’t done that bad so far.  After the first week I was appalled that I went up to 69.2kgs – almost a kg back on!  But the week after I was back to 68.5kgs and have stayed around there for the past month.  My waist however has gone down by another 0.5cm’s – bonus!  I now use the shapeup club app to check every now and then that I am not either in excess or deficit in calories, but I’m trying to wean this out and rely on myself to know what to eat.  However I think I will always use the app to track my weight, measurements and body fat – if they go up at all I can start counting again to bring it down – I’ll never let myself get super size again with the handy app in my pocket

The best thing about this part is that I can have more treats and food as I’m balancing my food intake with my exercise, rather than creating a deficit – cheeky I know, but true.  What this really means is that I have more choice in food than I did before, rather than just reverting back to ‘normal’ i.e. my super sized super unhealthy eating before my lifestyle change. 

Luckily I’ve found that it’s impossible to revert back to that style of eating high fat high sugar foods all the time, since I have been off them so long, I can no longer stand them! Wahey!  I was terrified that I would just think ‘oh, now the diets over – back to the couch with coke, chocolates, ice-cream, buttercream and junk! Come to think of it I don’t feel like the gym anymore’, I had no idea that I would genuinely not like sweet things at all, particularly cheap chocolate, icing or cakes – Bonus again! I now prefer natural cheeky things like full fat greek bio-live yoghurt with muesli and honey, nuts, seeds and dried and fresh fruit, which in a balanced diet, are totally allowed! 

So much has changed.  I hope I keep this up forever and ever . . . .

Till next time! :)