The weight came back and I'm starting the unglamorous parts again

2026-10-20 1475 views 2 posts

2026-10-20 20:34

I lost around fifty pounds, kept it off for a while, then let thirty creep back over the last two years. I'm not going to pretend I'm thrilled about it. Last Monday I restarted the unglamorous routine: a real breakfast, a packed lunch, a ten-minute walk after dinner, and no grazing while I clean up the kitchen.

Some nights the urge to snack at 9 p.m. is so loud I almost forget why I'm doing this. Other nights it's just quiet enough to get to bed.

I'm frustrated, but I'm not quitting. For people who've had a second or third start, what's the one small habit that made the difference when motivation wasn't there?

2026-10-28 03:49

I keep a 90-day rolling average, and my regain never showed up on weekdays. It hid in Fri–Sun: +1,100 kcal/day, mostly after 9 p.m.

The nightly urge was real, but the trendline didn’t budge until I separated weekend data from weekday data. Mildly contrarian take: before you tweak the 9 p.m.

habit, export your last 6 weeks and color-code weekends. Do you have that split? If weekends are flat, then yeah, it’s the evening window.

If not, the kitchen-cleanup rule may be solving the wrong 20%.

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