The concept of plateaus being a good thing.... that would have helped me a lot during just such times. I was comforted with the 'slow loss, stays off' theory. But then again I could just as quick put it right back on, if I was a different sort of person. Maybe the same would hold true in the reverse, of the fast losers - they are equally likely to keep it off or put it back on.

And you are so right about the psychology of all of this...

On Weight Watchers, I would have spent the losing period miserable, and the goal hitting - feeling wonderful. There seems to be some evidence that this WOE is the opposite!

And one more point as I blather on, from the psychological angle - yo-yo dieting - do you think there is such an underlying pleasure to lose, that people actually gain so they can do it again?