63.4 - out the door

Hello dear readers...

I'm sorry I haven't been in much contact, but there hasn't been a great deal of news to share until now!

I'm into week 3 of Maintenance. Mind you - that is after around 5 weeks of actually maintaining my weight. Yet, my will to weigh in weekly has been sapped from being on WW for over a year. Now every fortnight seems just as good!
But good news! My last maintenance weigh-in showed 63.4 (down from the previous fortnight of 64.2). While my leader was concerned that I wasn't 'maintaining' - but still secretly trying to lose - I assured her that I would really try to maintain my weight.

Fortunately, the scales went back up the following day to an alarming 65kg. No matter, it was temporary also.

It's very difficult to get the hang of this maintaining thing - my body weight seems highly volatile, the slightest push either way can drop it as low as 62.8 (as happened Saturday) or as high as 65.8 (today, at the gym). While right now I am in between these extremes, lurking around 64kg, I am wondering to myself what exactly it means to 'maintain' your weight. Surely, and impossibly, it cannot mean actually keeping your weight stable. I feel that the habits I have formed and now do almost automatically will just continue to help me lose weight, albeit slowly. But my leader warns that if I continue to do this, my body will get so used to the lack of kilojoules, that it will never learn to function efficiently, and then when I resume eating 'normally' (ie. more) - this will result in weight gain. Everything she says makes sense. I should ease into eating more now, and attempting to balance eating more with more exercise = stable weight.

Hmmmm. Food for thought. Meanwhile, I am still on my secret mission to get down to 60kg, so I will forego trying to stabilise just yet. Rather, its something to keep in mind in 3 and a half kilos :)