That’s the name of my newest of two categories. [Update. I’ve since recategorized.]
I am not at goal yet — that’s 108 lbs, BMI of 22 for my height of 4’11”, as I noted in the comments to this post after MrsDarwin asked for a reminder. The average of my last five daily weighings is 111, so let’s say that’s where I am.
But it’s probably time to make that category. Because it’s time for the transition to begin.
The secret of the transition is to realize there is no transition, not really. I would like to say that I can never go back. Instead, it’s apparent that I am free to go back — to my old ways — to a life of finishing a medium pizza by myself at one sitting, to a life where I both fill up on appetizers and eat a full dinner, to a life where the feeling of full-to-bursting is the only way I know I’ve eaten “enough,” to a life where I eat when I’m already full, faster and more food than politeness requires, to a life where indulging once becomes indulging twice, three times, again.
Free to go back, and free to be back where I was a year ago.
And equally free not to go back.
So. With the help of the sacraments — and I mean this one hundred percent, because two crucial turning points have been one meeting in the Eucharist and one meeting in the confessional — I firmly resolve to transition to… no transition at all.
Anyway, I’ll continue to post on weight loss under both categories for a while, but I intend to switch to the new weight maintenance category before long.
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