Maintenance For Life! Community Group
This group is for people who are looking to maintain their weight loss, and anyone who wants to maintain a healthy weight long term. This group is here to help provide support for people who are looking to transition out of weight loss and continue their life changes in their day to day life.
Since reaching your weight goal do you find your weigh loss friends treat you different?
I belong to Weight Loss Buddies and no longer sign up for a buddy because when my buddy finds out I do not need to lose any weight they are turned off with the buddy thing. They do not realize it takes as much effort if not more to maintain. It really has made me feel like a orphan.
It is hard to keep the motivation going without support. I have searched DS for other groups but most have become inactive, I found one group GOYA - Get Off Your A$$ which is a alcoholic group originally....I am not an alcoholic but my father was so I feel I qualify and I like the reporting everyday on my exercise and they are a friendly bunch.
Where do you find support now that you have reached your goal?
I belong to Weight Loss Buddies and no longer sign up for a buddy because when my buddy finds out I do not need to lose any weight they are turned off with the buddy thing. They do not realize it takes as much effort if not more to maintain. It really has made me feel like a orphan.
It is hard to keep the motivation going without support. I have searched DS for other groups but most have become inactive, I found one group GOYA - Get Off Your A$$ which is a alcoholic group originally....I am not an alcoholic but my father was so I feel I qualify and I like the reporting everyday on my exercise and they are a friendly bunch.
Where do you find support now that you have reached your goal?
I too am at goal weight.
I attend face to face meetings of Overeaters Anonymous and TOPS.
In TOPS I am consiered a KOPS (Keep Off Pounds Sensibly). We have several KOPS in our chapter and they understand that we must still watch what we are putting in our mouths and WHY.
In OA we have people also at goal weight and we all understand that as compulsive people we need to
continue to work our program on all three levels: mental, physical and spiritual.
Of course I come on Weight Loss Buddies on DS and Al Anon, as the issues that invite me to attend Al Anon meetings can be huge triggers to take that first compulsive bit.
So you see I get support from all these groups.
I also have seen people leave OA and TOPS and gain weight very quickly.