Weekly Vlog: PECS and Maintenance
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2024
- A Bright Lifer named Katharine sent us an observation: She was telling her Mastermind group how her Bright Lines have gotten wobbly now that she’s in Maintenance. Someone else said that she experienced the same thing during PECS. Maybe, they thought, the wobbly feelings actually were PECS.
So what is PECS? It’s an acronym for Post-Event Collapse Syndrome. We identified this when we observed that people were as likely to break their Bright Lines on the day after Thanksgiving as they were on the holiday itself.
What happens is that they endure Thanksgiving and work very hard to maintain their Bright Lines-and their brain gets depleted. The day after, their brains are suddenly telling them, I made it through, I deserve some food.
We train people to expect PECS. After a holiday. After a trip. After a big emotional event. When you expect it, you can plan for it and guard yourself against it.
Katharine, I suggest that your group check out the course Maintenance II. Maintenance II is a whole course about “landing the plane” and transitioning from the weight loss phase to the Maintenance phase of your Bright Journey. And, in the fourth module, there’s a video on PECS.
Every diet I know of has some version of the idea that after you lose weight, you can go back to eating as you did formerly. But we don’t do that in Bright Line Eating, because it doesn’t work and Bright Line Eating isn’t a diet.
So how do we avoid having our Maintenance transition be one big experience of PECS? The solution is planning and preparation.
For Bright Lifers, our three courses on Maintenance-Maintenance I, Maintenance II, and Maintenance III-are that planning and preparation. Maintenance I is designed to inoculate you against that way of seeing the journey. That’s why I want people to take that course as soon as possible after the Boot Camp.
Maintenance II is all about landing the plane. Maintenance III helps you right as you’ve landed the plane in Maintenance. You don’t need to focus on weight loss because that problem is solved. Maintenance III dives into that: how do we handle Maintenance, how do we make our life about life?
I think people don’t take Maintenance seriously enough, but I believe the Maintenance courses are the antidote to this. Doing them in a group is even better.
If you want to succeed and not just have Bright Line Eating turn into another diet, then address the Maintenance challenge as if it was potentially PECS. If you’re not prepared, then get prepared. Do your homework, get fortified, and face it with all the planning and preparation we offer. You can stick the landing!
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It just hit me that PECS is what I'm experiencing after Bootcamp. I lost 75 pounds. I watched every module and completed every step. Now that it's over, I can't even click on the app or Facebook page. I have 125 pounds to go, but I am paralyzed by my unwarranted resentment for the program. Thanks for this moment of clarity.
I have experienced that same resentment. 😢
Can you get on a coaching call and get some coaching?
I feel this❤❤
One of my buddies had PECS after her weekend company left her home. Thankfully she realized what was going on.
Love this vlog! thankyou Susan. after a lot of research i now realise i can often get PECS from just having a regular day - it seems sometimes that even breathing can cause PECS!
Glad you enjoyed the vlog! 🧡
Yes. This is how I lost almost 2 years of beautiful lines. It seemed like I was getting away with it at first. And it went down exactly as she said. 6 years later, still not like I was.
Thanks for responding to my/our question, Susan! What a fun and helpful surprise! Kathryn
This was a great question! 💓🫂
This week, my study group is going through the bonus videos included in Bright Line Grit. The message that resonated with me was that change is difficult because avoiding old circuits already programmed in the brain gives us a feeling of threat. Maintenance is change. And new circuits, like maintenance, are flimsy and require a lot of repetition.
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This is how I've been feeling almost all this past month!! I've never heard the term PECS before. It's very helpful!
So glad this was helpful for you 💗💗
Thanks for this. I think another thing that goes on is that we identify "The Day" eg, Thanksgiving, but don't recognise that the (NM) food, and the thinking around that food is hanging around into next day/week - Easter chocolate left over, for instance, or the idea that the holiday has a 'tail' effect. And now with the guests gone, its hard to throw that food out without the notion of 'wasting' it. We're better at delaying gratification (Lent) and holding off until the big day, and then, as you say, there's the exhaustion after the event, plus all this residual still around us.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! 💓
I hadn't heard this term before. Very handy! Going to watch the course, even though I have NEVER gotten to goal despite happily following the program for 3 years.
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Always such great information ❤ thank you, Susan 😊
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A lifestyle. Not a diet.