It's been 23 months since I began group sessions with the medically supervised weight loss (Optifast) program, and 3 yrs and 3 months since I moved to a small plate and asked for a referral to the Bariatric program. It seems a little unreal.
One of the things that has motivated me has been the research material gathered by the National Weight Control Registry - a research study involving 10,000 subjects that have lost at least 30 lbs and kept it off for at least one year. I signed up for the study and just completed my first hour long survey.
Completing the survey helped me to relive the weight loss journey and given me motivation to continue on and work a little harder to fight my body's metabolic attack to try and make me regain the weight - but ha, ha - I'm onto you :-)
I've kept the weight off well for the first year following the end of Optifast, going up and down within a 5 lb range. I've hit some kind of a wall since about Christmas and I'm now up 10 lbs above my baseline weight. I'm stressed, but still working at it - exercising more and eating less
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