How much did you lose? What is your current food noise?
I really like Mark Lewis's take on YouTube - he's someone who is very fit in general but an injury threw him off and before he knew it, he had gained double digit kilos. This is someone who is motivated but also deals with high food noise.
I deal with low food noise. I am relatively active. I got up to <overweight> pounds slowly and over 8 months was able to lose 40. Even so, I had just one bad month at work and gained 7 pounds without significantly dropping my activity. Just a few meals out and not tracking my calories and I fell off of maintenance quickly. If I resistance train my ability to keep control of my calories falls off quickly because I just get too hungry.
I'd love just a maintenance level just because distraction-level hunger sucks.
>Just a few meals out and not tracking my calories and I fell off of maintenance quickly.
This is the big thing: it's amazing how little you can fall out of line and gain weight. A couple hundred calories a day and you're adding weight, every week. It really does take discipline.
How much of your active attention is tracking on your hunger signals.
If I can't focus on my current task because I'm too hungry, that's food noise. If I can't get to sleep and am tossing and turning because I am too hungry, that's food noise. If all I can think about is a doughnut, or even if I'm chomping on raw broccoli and hating myself because it's just making me hungrier, that's food noise.
I guess the concept isn't intuitive for me because, if anything, I experience the opposite of that. I can focus on a task for hours before suddenly realizing how hungry I am. (If only I had better control over which task I focus on....)
I really like Mark Lewis's take on YouTube - he's someone who is very fit in general but an injury threw him off and before he knew it, he had gained double digit kilos. This is someone who is motivated but also deals with high food noise.
I deal with low food noise. I am relatively active. I got up to <overweight> pounds slowly and over 8 months was able to lose 40. Even so, I had just one bad month at work and gained 7 pounds without significantly dropping my activity. Just a few meals out and not tracking my calories and I fell off of maintenance quickly. If I resistance train my ability to keep control of my calories falls off quickly because I just get too hungry.
I'd love just a maintenance level just because distraction-level hunger sucks.