I wish I could say that Maintenance is easy for me, but it isn't. Last Fall was really hard and I was off my plan often. Too often.

My downfall is dairy, even very high-fat dairy. I have very few chewing teeth so dairy is easier on my mouth than meat. I don't gain actual pounds, but I gain "puff" and it's always in the same places. I know it isn't good for me and I know that because I crave it. What I crave the most is my poison.

I just looked back over my online health records and see that over the past three years my weight in clothes at the doctor's office has fluctuated only 5 lbs. For somebody like me, that's miraculous. I have to eat VLC to maintain. But I'm old, and the alternative to eating this way is stark. Eat LCHF and be pain-free, able to walk and run or eat SAD and be a weak, old cripple ending up in assisted living.