Hi ...I know waiting until you get to a 'healthy' weight for your height is the recommendation for many reasons. However, it would be much better to concentrate on maintaining what you have lost and introducing food in a healthy way, rather than jacking the whole thing in and re-gaining your weight...
One or two people in my LL group are in danger of doing this and are currently lapsing and struggling, but whenever they mention wanting to stop abstainance, they are strongly discouraged, which IMHO may not be the right advice...
Also, I've noticed that a lot of the people featured in weight-loss articles in magazines / papers that have been advised by health professionals, seem to have followed VLCDs to lose a chunk of weight, but have then followed some other eating plan, such as low-GI and added exercise in order to lose the rest.
Don't get me wrong, I thank my lucky stars that I found LL because I was really stuck in an expanding rut before-hand... and now I have the chance to work with a much smaller body!
I've just about finished RtM now and have come to realise that it's just the tip of the iceberg. I will need to find strategies / plans to get me through the rest of my life if I want to stay a healthy weight and sadly I don't think one plan / diet has all the answers...
Sorry for rambling - I'm feeling philosophical this evening!
Monkey x