So it has been a while...
When I first started Diet Bet on January 31, 2015. I was very eager. I joined both a kickstarter and transformer. Wrote blogs each day for a week. I decided "this will be easy! and great!" and I will join a kickstarter each month, possibly overlapping to keep myself continually losing weight! Joined another kickstarter. Won the first kickstarter and first round of the transformer. Everything was going great.
Then I lost the second kickstarter. And it made me frustrated face my limitations. Losing 4% of your body weight is very managable, however mentally it is tiring trying to continually lose 4% each month. I needed to take breaks from eating super healthy sometimes. Take a break to be able to socialize with my friends and go out to eat, to be able to have a real date with my bf without stressing about food. Not to say its good to binge on junk food (though I have done that a few times), but simply taking your mind away from the fact that you are dieting and just being able to eat for sustaining. I am sure my body could have taken doing kickstarters each month, but it would be a tougher battle for my mind.
I am glad that I also joined the transformer. At first I thought the pace was too slow, that I could do so much better. However, I am now finding it to be a perfect rate (especially for the first 3 Months). The first month was a fun challenge, the second let me relax a little more while making progress, the third was great for just sustaining once I reached the goal.
In the fourth month, I decided to take on another kickstarter, and this time it was much better! :D Providing the months of slower weight loss and maintaining gave my mind and body a break. It allowed the changes in my weight to stablize. I saw more progress in my body in the month that I was maintaining than the months I was losing previously. It gave me a sense of what I would need to do to maintain that intermediate weight and compare to my initial weight which I do not plan on revisiting.
My highest weight was 175 lbs last summer. I am now about to break 140. My dream goal is to reach 120. But I have to say I am happy right now. There is no urgency anymore to losing weight. I am in the healthy category (though on the higher side), my previously too tight clothes fit better and my normal fit worse in the best way ;), and I am not embarassed to wear a bikini anymore.
I could definitely use some more work. And I will continue to work on my goal, but I will take it slow and enjoy life while I do it.