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    Emilia777 wrote: »

    I don’t know about the Chinese food (which I love too btw!) - if it’s from a restaurant, you just have to give it your best guess, and if it’s from a box, you can look at the weight of the box in oz or grams and calculate your serving size from that. For sour cream (which I’m having for dinner right now!), I weigh it out in grams on the plate. A tablespoon can be around 15-20 grams, depending on how you spoon it out. This guide is really helpful and explains accurate tracking in grams: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1
    I will make it even easier: weigh the container (of sour cream, etc.) Take out how much you want and weight the container again. You can even use the tare function when you put it on the scale, it will then show how much you took out the second time you put it on.


    faithyang wrote: »

    I'm so glad that there are people going through this too and that I can really relate to you guys.

    My moment was when I dropped below my BMI quite alarmingly quick. The biggest one was visual. I was changing and saw myself in the mirror and was a little disgusted with what I saw. Bones showing everywhere, ribs showing in a gross way which I wasn't comfortable. Knobs of my shoulder blades. I realised no, this is not on. This is not beautiful, and not healthy. That was my aha moment.

    I hate to say it but there was a very small little voice at that back of my head glowing with a kind of satisfaction seeing myself so skinny. But I stomped on that worm quick smart.

    This is secondary, but also the fact my hubby said, "Can you gain a little more weight? You need to eat more, you already look so slim and great...but you're getting a little too skinny."

    He made me promise to gain 2 kg. :smiley:

    I thought he was just saying it at first, but then I realised he comes from a family of women who are really skinny because they are really unhealthy and quite sickly, so he sees skinny as a 'bad' thing and "shape" as a good thing (not like obese but a little more meat, which I translate as 'chubby'. But I don't like that so we agreed to meet in between) and he likes "meat" on my bones because I look "beautiful" and "womanly". :smile:

    I can totally relate to that. In the beginning I was okay with losing weight, since our society is so focused on it. However, when my ribs started showing and my breast were getting smaller I realised that it was not a good thing. In started getting uncomfortable in my skin. I feel way better now that I have all the weight I lost back.
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    You can lose flab without losing weight ive just learnt this.
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    Emilia777 wrote: »

    You’re on the border of being underweight, based on BMI (for what it’s worth, 18.6). I wouldn’t use your stats as the reference point for other people.

    OP, I was recently in a similar situation, having reached my “goal weight”. What I ended up doing is increasing my calories and maintaining a much smaller deficit for about .5lb/week loss, and I’m thinking of going to maintenance soon at this point. How you feel is really all that matters once you’re in a healthy weight range. You can always go to maintenance and focus on other goals, like lifting weights or running or whatever other fitness-y things you might enjoy. I’ve discovered weight lifting not too long ago, so I always peddle that. It’s a ton of fun to have strength goals rather than weight loss goals :smile:

    Regardless, congrats on your success thus far :smile:

    That's what I did when I got to the top of my final range. It took a while to hit that final point. And I sat there for a year at that small deficit. Then my exercise and light summer food and I upped my calories to 0 deficit and dropped 5 pounds - shooting past my goal.

    And after that I've still lost more inches but not weight. You can look many different ways - and be more or less healthy - at the same weight.
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