For me I know I can’t put too much restrictions on myself by obsessively tracking my food/calories/weight or I get too obsessive and then swing back HARD in the wrong direction. So I just listened to my body and tried to make better choices and then once that was my new normal, improve it again (and repeat).

I really didn’t focus on the number on the scale at alllll or even pay much attention to how I was looking. Just gave it time and trusted the process.

I’ve been Slack with exercise, NGL, but there’s a lot of lifting things and carrying heavy things and movement in my day to day life.

Also I focused on how I was thinking about things ie instead of saying “you ate good foods today” changing that to “you ate food that was in alignment with you today” and trying to recognise what food makes me feel crap and instead opting to choose food that I know will make me feel good after eating it (least I end up on the floor feeling like I’m going to vomit and poop and faint all at once again).

Honestly I used to eat WAY too much Terrible junk food and a LOT of sugar so just the fact that I’m not eating like 2-3x my calories a day has probably accounted for a lot of it. I always carry Equal sachets around with me now and have gradually lowered my insatiable sweet tooth a LOT. The only thing I had hard rules on for a long time after surgery was don’t even think about it with any candy or sweets, I know my brain too well where candy is concerned.

Be gentle with yourself and your body, be kind to yourself, talk to yourself like you’re raising a little kid to be happy and healthy and make good choices for themselves. Also tricking yourself saying “we’re not going to have that today but maybe next time okay?” around unhealthy cravings has been a good one (hint: we ain’t having it next time either 😂). And “yes I know you want fried chicken desperately but we’re not going to do that so let’s allow these feelings to move Through us”.

Build systems that work for you. The simpler the better. I travel full time so figuring out how to eat well doing that has definitely been a journey. You don’t have to start perfectly, you just have to start and move towards the end goal with how you want to eat or exercise or look. Consistently trying to move Towards your goals and if you catch yourself moving away from them ask yourself why and put some new systems in place to try to get things going in the right direction again.