Congrats on your successful losses!!
My neighbor lost drinking optifast shakes, about 150 lbs worth. She's kept it off for several years too and still eats their packets of food. I guess it works for her.
Me, I like to learn to cook and have made it into something that I truly eenjoy doing. My new hobby!
As for that 3 lb rule, I never used to have any rules about my weight as I refused to get on a scale. I preffered to live in the land of denial....oy!!!
At my current weight, +3 lbs is kinda the same as 15-20 when I was near 300 lbs.
I literally have to fight with myself some days to get on the scale as my old mental chatter tries to pull me back into my old habits....but I fight on!!
I hope that this strategy works out for you.
I'm afraid it'd be too loose for me. what I did do as I was losing was to pick 2 old foods that I allowed to myself to have
a portion of once a month as I lost my weight.
1 was pasta and I allowed myself a 2 oz portion of Dreamfields once a month and yes, I measured the 2 ozs and didn't go over.
The other was to allow myself a real NYC bagel once a month. Doing it this way kept my indulgences very small and it also helped me feel, in my mind that is, that I wasn't being deprived of my old favs.
As time has gone by and my
committment to transforming my eating has remained, my food has continued to evolve and that box of Dreamfields in my kitchen has been untouched for about 2 yrs now.
