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If I do extreme restriction I lose, but if I a little increase (still deficit) I gain!!! HELP PLEAS
I just came off of an incredibly restrictive diet. I mean I lose a very large amount of weight in a very short period of time which I do not recommend AT ALL but I am trying to get back to normal eating habits while maintaining my weight. I recently moved my itnake up to 1200 and now I am gaining weigh. I was at median of…
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Different kind of story
Brief synopsis of my journey: I jumped around a lot in weight throughout my life. I'm a 5'6" female who has been anywhere between 120-250 lbs. I have mostly been on average anywhere between 135-155. Most recently, I went from about 240 to 125 in less than a year - from 2018 to 2019, I believe. I gained back a significant…
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Have loved the app
I am using the app in what is probably and elementary way. However I love it. I am tracking what I eat and my weight and exercise every day. It helps me to be more aware of what I put in my mouth. I am not sure which group I am posting to. I would like to be in the maintenance group however that may be closed? Anyway one…
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Book about NWCR participants
A while ago I found a book about participants in the National Weight Control Registry and what they had in common. It was called something like "Thin Forever". Googling for this has turned up nothing though. Does anyone know the name if the book and the author, or have a link?
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On a mission to maintain weight
so in over 2 yrs i have lost 3st 2.5lbs. I have gone from 11st 2.5lbs to 8st and i am very happy at my new weight. But now have the task of trying to maintain and not lose or gain 🤦♀️🤞
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Calories
What would be my activity level if i jog 3x a week for 30 mins and 10000 everyday plus lifting weights 4x a week for 1 hour
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Macro, Maintaining and building muscle
Hi I'm looking for some advice on how much protein, fat and carbs I need to maintain weight and gain muscle. My weight is 149lb, I am 5 feet 7 inches, my body fat is 18%. If someone can give me an estimate of how many grams of protein, fat, carbs I need, that would be really helpful. I have used other online macro…
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Decreasing exercise while trying to maintain weight
Since trying to lose weight, i have been working out alot (around 2-2.5hrs daily to be precise).Now that im under my goal weight,im satisfied with my weight and only want to maintain & tone now. I have alot of medical issues,including joint problems (all the working out probably hasn't helped 🤦♀️), so now im happy with my…
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Switched to maintenance mode, but not sure how to go about it.
Hello! It has taken me about 10 years, but through a lot of baby steps, and trial and error, I went from the mid to high 200s, to now 140 lbs. At first, my goal was to be in the 130s, since I decided that that was a good range for my height. However, once I got to 140 lbs., the scale just wouldn't go down. I would bounce…
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The impact of a dessert/treat
I recently met my goal weight and for the past couple of months I've been focusing on maintaining my weight at 105-110 pounds. I find that eating a piece of cake, even when it's within my total calorie budget, causes an overnight gain of 5-6 pounds, and then it takes me a week for it to return to my desired range. Is this…
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Switching to a deficit: trying for 6 weeks
Hi there! Wanted to share that after maintaining my weight since around October 2019, I’ve decided to take around a 250 calorie deficit for 6 weeks. I THINK I have detected a slight upward trend in my average weight over the past three months or so (around 126 on average in April, and now my average is around 128/129, and…
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Maintaining weight range
I started my weight lose journey in 2018 weighing 11st 2.5lbs. I have an underactive thyroid and pcos so have been deemed overweight all my life basically. Between then and now i not only have had my miracle baby after being told for many yrs that id never naturally conceive, but ive also lost 3st 3st 2.5lbs taking me to…
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Sept Check In
1. The aim of this thread is to have a weekly weigh-in check for some accountability and support. 2. Copy the form below by copy-pasting and edit to suit your personal schedule, then fill in your information and post each week. 3. Have a successful month, whatever your maintenance/health goal(s) may be!! Name Age: Height:…
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Exercise + Maintenance = frustration
I started using MFP in earnest on Oct 1 2018, when I weighed in at ~202 lbs. It took me about 6 months to lose 35 lbs, about 4-6 months to lose the next ten pounds and since Sept/Oct 2019 I have settled into a range of 156-160, which I have been maintaining for the past year pretty easily. (Stats: 5'9" middle-aged guy). I…
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New Year Resolution 3 Months In Advance - Maintain Weight
For many years, my weight has been fluctuating. Around my birthday, I get down to my ideal weight--125 lbs. at 5'7"--then as the holidays, birthdays, and work stress hits, I gradually put on 15 lbs. So I have been fluctuating between 125 to 140 lbs. for many years now. And I've decided firmly this week, to try to change…
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I’m starting maintenance and need advice please!
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 I’ve decided to maintain my current weight 🥳 Roughly... I want to stick between 10 stone and 10 and a half stone (aka 140-147lbs, or 63.5-66.5kg, average 65kg). My original goal was 132lbs, but I am happy where I am, so I’m going to stick here for now, I think it’s the right thing for me I have never really…
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Robert Kinsler
How can I gain that I have real high metabolism
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Plan when reaching ultimate goal
Ok so I'm finally very close to my ultimate goal of 180 pounds. Started at 272.4 and I'm at 193.8 with a goal as I said if 180. I'm assuming this last 14 pounds will take a bit of time, 5 months? Anyway my plan once I reach this goal is to add a few hundred calories a week for a few weeks to get to maintenance rather than…
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Strength training and 1700 calories a day!
I started properly strength training about a year ago after eating at 1200 calories a day with no exercise and realising I wanted to be strong, fit and healthy. I was progressing well up until the UK went into lockdown in March this year and the gyms closed. The day the gym reopened I was back at it. My OH is a personal…
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Its tough!
So does anyone actually find maintaining more difficult than the weight loss? I feel like when I want to lose weight, its pretty simple. I eat less food. I'm an active runner/triathlete so maintaining a deficit is pretty easy for me. I'm not susceptible to temptation for the most part (most weight gain I had over the years…
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What are you doing to outsmart rebound weight gain with friends
If conducting one special diet or food protocol worked, you would conduct it one time and one time only. There would be no such thing as rebound weight gain with friends. One diet would fix all of your problems for you until it doesn't. How are you avoiding rebound weight gain with friends after all of the dieting is done.
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Missed a day! Maintenance forever.
Looking at my log today I realized that 87 days ago I must have missed one day logging. Almost 1900 before then. Bummer! Have no idea what happened. (Well besides the world. ) I have lost maybe 14 pounds since the pandemic started. I have logged every day (I thought) but am less motivated to do so. Logging has little…
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How to maintain: 5’3 young adult
I recently lost some weight (I don’t frequently weight myself due to a bad relationship with the scale) and last time I weighed myself, a couple weeks back I was 105 lbs. I’m 5’3 and 18 years old. As background, I struggled with disordered eating and rapidly lost weight while restricting unsustainably and was in “recovery”…
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Maintenance without calorie counting?
I'm at my ideal weight currently and I want to move away from calorie counting so that I can be as stress free as possible when it comes to food. Anyone had any success with this long term? Any issues you had? How did you do it? In theory having a few go to meal ideas (that I know the rough calorie estimate of) I can cycle…
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I am looking forward to ...
all those queries about how to avoid gaining weight while on vacation. That is all.
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staying in my limit
does it matter where maintenance calories come from as long as i stay in my caloric limit?
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Having trouble levelling out weight loss
Did anyone else have trouble levelling out weight loss when starting maintenance? I'm consuming 2600 calories per day, and although I have the occasional hungry day, many days I have to force myself to eat more to reach this target. It seems kind of perverse for a person with my history of weight issues to be forcing…
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Body set point
How long does it take to lower the body's weight setpoint? Over the last few years I found that at 71 kilos, my appetite seriously decreased till I returned to 70-69 kilos. This was a 26.5 BMI. I have worked very hard and am now fluctuating around 65.5 kilos. My tolerance for the work and hunger has finished. I will go to…
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Fun With My Trending App
Warning: There's no Big Point to this post. I'm just chatting about something I find fun/interesting, in maintenance, but NBD. I'm a long-term Libra user. One of the nice things about it is that I can change the number of days it uses for smoothing and projections. Generally, in maintenance, I like using longer periods.…
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Aug Check In
1. The aim of this thread is to have a weekly weigh-in check for some accountability and support. 2. Copy the form below by copy-pasting and edit to suit your personal schedule, then fill in your information and post each week. 3. Have a successful month, whatever your maintenance/health goal(s) may be!! Name Age: Height:…