How wide is your maintenance range?
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Maintenance range it's a tough one for me I'd say within 5 pounds. I'm not really focused on the scale that much more versus how my clothes feel especially my pants. I have access to scales at work and I've weighed myself sometimes during the day to see how my way changes and what I found is that my weight can fluctuate sometimes 2 to 5 pounds in a day depending on what I've eaten. I saw the look at it as a long-term process I've had weeks where my weight has fluctuated for five pounds over a couple days but yet overtime it's still around my goal number which is about 208 pounds0
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I'm fascinated by the people with the really small ranges.
I can vary +/- 2 kg (4.4 lbs) in the course of a day or two depending on my exercise level, the food I've eaten, the weather, the travelling I've done, and my TOM.7 -
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I'm fascinated by the people with the really small ranges.
I can vary +/- 2 kg (4.4 lbs) in the course of a day or two depending on my exercise level, the food I've eaten, the weather, the travelling I've done, and my TOM.
It's not just about the range, I think, but also how you treat it, and the context it fits in. My range is smaller (plus or minus 3), but I'm still logging, so I pretty much know what happened when I go over the top end. And I don't consider it a problem if I bounce over the top end for a day or two, as long as it's a transitory thing. Creeping up and going over and staying over - bad sign.7 -
+/- 4lbs is my range, normal fluctations are 0.5 to 1.5lbs in any one day.0
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I'm fascinated by the people with the really small ranges.
I can vary +/- 2 kg (4.4 lbs) in the course of a day or two depending on my exercise level, the food I've eaten, the weather, the travelling I've done, and my TOM.
Mine floats between 203 and 208 lbs most of the time and that is with me weighing under consistent conditions.0 -
I picked my range based on my natural fluctuations. My weight tends to fluctuate by around 2 pounds so I picked 128 +/- 2. I don't think my weight has ever been up more than 2 or 2.5 pounds in one day.1
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+/- 3 pounds (180-186).0
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As long as I'm within my normal BMI range, I'm reasonably happy.
However, I'm happier if I'm in the lower half of my BMI range.
My "normal" BMI is a range of 39 lbs! Once I hit maintenance I'm going to choose a smaller range of about 3-4 lbs. But honestly I don't see myself being in danger of going too low...1 -
Be careful what you wish for. There are other problems with menopause and old age that sometimes we can't prevent or avoid. Enjoy your younger years even if the hormones are often hard to handle. Been there and done that myself.1 -
Be careful what you wish for. There are other problems with menopause and old age that sometimes we can't prevent or avoid. Enjoy your younger years even if the hormones are often hard to handle. Been there and done that myself.
I'm going through perimenopausal hell right now ... complete with pre-cancer ... and unable to use HRT. One of the special features of this time is having my period for 2-3 weeks each month. Believe me ... I cannot wait till it is gone. There will be dancing in the streets!
@Gisel2015 ... my "younger years" are already a distant memory. But thanks for thinking I'm young!0 -
I'm 5' tall and I go up a pants size with every "extra" five lbs, so when I DO reach my goal, I'm going to try to stay within 3 lbs of goal!0
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Be careful what you wish for. There are other problems with menopause and old age that sometimes we can't prevent or avoid. Enjoy your younger years even if the hormones are often hard to handle. Been there and done that myself.
I'm going through perimenopausal hell right now ... complete with pre-cancer ... and unable to use HRT. One of the special features of this time is having my period for 2-3 weeks each month. Believe me ... I cannot wait till it is gone. There will be dancing in the streets!
@Gisel2015 ... my "younger years" are already a distant memory. But thanks for thinking I'm young!
I saw your profile. My oldest son is only a year younger than you so for me, yes, you are young. Sorry about your health problems and I really hope that you can weather them like a trooper, which I think you are.2 -
I'm fascinated by the people with the really small ranges.
I can vary +/- 2 kg (4.4 lbs) in the course of a day or two depending on my exercise level, the food I've eaten, the weather, the travelling I've done, and my TOM.
It depends on what you are measuring. The spike of a single day or something along the lines of a 5 day moving average. I could see a small range with the latter.0 -
I'm fascinated by the people with the really small ranges.
I can vary +/- 2 kg (4.4 lbs) in the course of a day or two depending on my exercise level, the food I've eaten, the weather, the travelling I've done, and my TOM.
My weight has not varied by more than about 4 kg ie 2 kg either side of goal weight, in over 3 years. Stays between 59 and 63.5 kg.
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10lbs- I like to put on around 6lbs over winter as I really feel the cold.
Then there is the TOM bloat.0 -
+/- 10 pounds.
Depends on if I'm trying a different workout, whether I've eaten out or had high sodium foods, whether or not I'm hitting my water intake goal, ToM, and a whole host of other factors.
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and for me, 4 additional lbs would not allow my jeans to zip up. 
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