Stay The Course

In the past year and some odd months I have set goals to reach 175 lbs (at the time I weighed 205), I have gone on zone type diets, paleo diets, and zaleo diets.  I even cut out sugar completely for a little over 30 days.  At one point, likely due to some starvation and water reduction I weighed in at 192, the lowest I have been in several years.  The problem with that was I could not maintain that weight due mainly to the way I lost it, and went from strict "dieting" to SNAFU and went right back to 205.  From there I worked on putting on muscle and while I was still planning on dropping some LB's, I crashed mentally and decided Reeses PB cups and ice cream were better fuel than 1700-2000 calories of chicken and brocoli.  So, with no surprise I swellled up to an average weight of 211 and recently stepped on the scales to see 217 glaring back at me.  At that point I decided I had to start helping myself before I let the sugar win the fight.  After 3 days of strict adherance to good food and limiting meals to normal proportion and not feeding myself until I was stuffed I am back to my maintenance weight of 208.  So, here I go again.  Over a year ago I said I wanted to be at 175, I still do, so will I do it this year, or gain another 3 pounds.