MsScruff, you have done well and I can deeply apreciate that amount of comitment you have to this WOL. Congradulations. Keeping it clean is the way I lost mine as well.
What BKM says holds true for me too. I try not to weigh daily though due to hormonal fluctuations. My weight will fluctuate 5-6lbs of water throuout the month. I occasionally weigh myself and take into concideration what part of the month it is. If I am a little high, then I need to pay closer attention and see it out. If I have been overindulging, then I do induction for two days to get the "water out" and if nothing happens then is back to OWL type eating for a few weeks (no goodies). I have only had to resort to that a couple times.
My eating style is basicly OWL with a few goodies exaples(88% chocolate, a little friut, ocasional homemade treats, occasional going out to eat)--all in moderation depending on how they affect me.
I hate living as though I am "dieting" or trying to loose weight (LC is my defalt, not diety). I am a totall foodie = LOVE to whip up mean LC recipes. Nothing that comes from a box and nothing labled Kraft and the like. I try to get away with as much as I can mostley friut and and a little going out to eat 2X month. 95% of the time I eat a very healthy LC diet. Although I do not count carbs on a regular basis, I occasionally spot check my diet and it works out to be between 15-60 or somewhere there about, and about 1800-2400 cal
Thats OK though. I only seem to run into trouble when I add whole grain complex carb bread. Who whould figure I would be better off eating a nice juicy pear/kiwi/apple/apricot/plum/berries/melon than a slice of stone ground whole grain though archaic rye bread (no wheat). Grain products were my downfall befor LC. I have to take an all grain products are evil approch (except when I go out to eat, and no to go boxes). At home I have LC bread which I make sanwhiches for my son. It is safer for me to have this in the house than regular (whole grain or not).
Over I keep my carbs low. My PCOS symptoms really flair up and I become irregular again if I don't.
What I meant about my goals changing when in maintenance is that I am STILL finding out what is right for me. It is a lifelong process as my body changes. Its like trying to live (eat) on auto pilot. (this is why I think mainenance is harder than loosing). Occasionally you steer off course. You learn and incorperate what you have learned. The new goal being applying what you have learned and living with that. For example keeping my paws off the LC bread. I have been working on that one for over a year. I do good for a while, then well, you know
Or it could be to get out and walk the dog X # of days this week. Little things like that. Not massive dietary restrictions though. Basicly I work from my LC template, then modify and adjust when and where appropriate.
HTH,
Kristie aka Bandito