There has been a lot of information distributed on this website on how I lost the weight and I've been holding back on continually updating this blog with means and methods, however, I do feel the need to write something as we're already midway through 2010! Maintenance mode has been going strong and I continually track all food and liquid intake to keep this mission active. It has become such a consistent practice, where discipline becomes the norm. Here's a quote taken from Ravi Raman's website that really made an impact on me:
"The challenge with discipline is that it requires you to make an effort consistently over an extended period of time. The upshot is that after a certain point – the discipline becomes “the norm” and no longer requires effort. Getting to this point, though, has been the bane of many new years resolutions!" [Set Higher Standards]
In 2007 my weight hovered at around 250-lbs and I finally began to take appropriate steps in March 2008 to lose the weight when I was at 239-lbs. I can't quite explain what sparked the immediate action to take serious steps, but it might have been due to my Endocrinologist's mention of a potential to become diabetic within 10-yrs. That's basically what it took for me to make a positive change.
As of today (6/9/2010) I weigh in at 177.4-lbs and have been able to monitor and adjust caloric intake consistently with the use of an iPhone (using the following app's). This has been a personal mission and these nifty iPhone app's make it very easy to figure out how to monitor your weight.
I have been fluctuating food and liquid intake within a range of approximately 2,100 - 2,400 calories / day. While at this point I can probably estimate (without the use of graphs, applications and guides) the amount of calories consumed in a day, the Lose It! iPhone app plays a critical role in maintaining my weight. Not only is Lose It! an effective tracking tool, their website also offers further graphical representations of food trends over an elapsed period of time, reports on net calories, weight trends, weekly and daily summaries, nutritional content and several other (visual) features that are enlightening now that there's over a year's worth of data to report.
It all really boils down to good quality, high-nutrition foods and understanding what's going inside your body. Read those nutrition labels and try tracking the amount of calories you consume in just one day. You may be surprised at the results. Exercise certainly helps the situation (something I have struggled with), but I am confident that food alone is 90% of the weight loss battle; it worked for me.
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