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The first graph is from 2.5 years ago. I have regained weight only when I stopped weighing/charting. Weighing yourself once a day is not an onerous expenditure

• zavulon 16y ago
  For me, weighing myself has little to do with helping willpower - I still get days where I just feel like gorging on whatever's available in the fridge, willpower be damned. And I think the trick is to get yourself to a point where you don't need willpower at all - just a habit to eat healthy. But - if it works for you, that's awesome. I definitely don't want to discourage you from what you're doing if it works. It looks like you have a lot of willpower, much more than I or most people I know do, so just keep doing it.
• bena 16y ago
  Right. What looks like iron clad will over the course of a year is nothing more than the will to go one more day, every day. I've lost close to 90 pounds over the last year. Honestly, I didn't expect to be this successful. I thought that after a few months, I'd lose the motivation. But every day I tell myself, "Forget yesterday. Forget tomorrow. Get through today, that's your goal." Now some days, I didn't get through. But the next day, I'd begin all over as if it never happened. If you don't worry about willpower lapses, you will find it easier to get back to it. 100% willpower is an illusion created by having over 50% willpower along a great enough timeline.