Too much of a whoosh?

Jmgkamp

As of this morning I'm 16.8 pounds from MFPs goal weight for me (and 26.8 from where I'd like to end up). I have been tracking for 7 months and have lost 68.2 pounds. I'm 5'2" and 42 yo (and female).

My concern at this point is that I seem to be losing weight too rapidly for this stage of the game. I exercise daily, sometimes eat back a percentage of the calories, rarely all of them (very rarely, only when I'm super hungry and then I do because I feel like my body needs them).

But my whooshes seem to be 5 pounds at a time. Maybe that's okay, because I lose roughly .5-1 pound a month aside from the "whoosh" (which I've only been experiencing for the past 2 months anyway).

Is this normal? Have you experienced this? MFP gives me 1200 calories, but my maintenance is only about 1500 anyway (pathetic, right, thanks short genes!!!).

Should I start slowing down my losses? I thought at this point .5 pound was what I should be shooting for - it's hard to make that adjustment.

Just curious. (Of course tonight I went about 600 over, didn't exercise, and had so much sodium - tomorrow's reading will be ugly, but a blip).

Thoughts?

ilovecereal1982

Wooooosh there it isss....sorry..had to..how has no one done that yet????

Jmgkamp

That actually made me laugh.

ilovecereal1982

you did such a great job of using the word!!

atypicalsmith

Jmgkamp wrote: »

As of this morning I'm 16.8 pounds from MFPs goal weight for me (and 26.8 from where I'd like to end up). I have been tracking for 7 months and have lost 68.2 pounds. I'm 5'2" and 42 yo (and female).

My concern at this point is that I seem to be losing weight too rapidly for this stage of the game. I exercise daily, sometimes eat back a percentage of the calories, rarely all of them (very rarely, only when I'm super hungry and then I do because I feel like my body needs them).

But my whooshes seem to be 5 pounds at a time. Maybe that's okay, because I lose roughly .5-1 pound a month aside from the "whoosh" (which I've only been experiencing for the past 2 months anyway).

Is this normal? Have you experienced this? MFP gives me 1200 calories, but my maintenance is only about 1500 anyway (pathetic, right, thanks short genes!!!).

Should I start slowing down my losses? I thought at this point .5 pound was what I should be shooting for - it's hard to make that adjustment.

Just curious. (Of course tonight I went about 600 over, didn't exercise, and had so much sodium - tomorrow's reading will be ugly, but a blip).

Thoughts?

That's exactly how my body loses weight. I will hold onto a plateau for four weeks then for another week lose a pound a day. Then it will go back up to a couple of pounds under the plateau, stay there for two or three weeks, then here's comes another whoosh. Drives me nuts.

Jmgkamp

atypicalsmith wrote: »

Jmgkamp wrote: »

As of this morning I'm 16.8 pounds from MFPs goal weight for me (and 26.8 from where I'd like to end up). I have been tracking for 7 months and have lost 68.2 pounds. I'm 5'2" and 42 yo (and female).

My concern at this point is that I seem to be losing weight too rapidly for this stage of the game. I exercise daily, sometimes eat back a percentage of the calories, rarely all of them (very rarely, only when I'm super hungry and then I do because I feel like my body needs them).

But my whooshes seem to be 5 pounds at a time. Maybe that's okay, because I lose roughly .5-1 pound a month aside from the "whoosh" (which I've only been experiencing for the past 2 months anyway).

Is this normal? Have you experienced this? MFP gives me 1200 calories, but my maintenance is only about 1500 anyway (pathetic, right, thanks short genes!!!).

Should I start slowing down my losses? I thought at this point .5 pound was what I should be shooting for - it's hard to make that adjustment.

Just curious. (Of course tonight I went about 600 over, didn't exercise, and had so much sodium - tomorrow's reading will be ugly, but a blip).

Thoughts?

That's exactly how my body loses weight. I will hold onto a plateau for four weeks then for another week lose a pound a day. Then it will go back up to a couple of pounds under the plateau, stay there for two or three weeks, then here's comes another whoosh. Drives me nuts.

THIS! This. Exactly this. Plummets down, small bounce up, nothing nothing nothing. Rinse and repeat.

It. Is. A. Trip!

atypicalsmith

Jmgkamp wrote: »

atypicalsmith wrote: »

Jmgkamp wrote: »

As of this morning I'm 16.8 pounds from MFPs goal weight for me (and 26.8 from where I'd like to end up). I have been tracking for 7 months and have lost 68.2 pounds. I'm 5'2" and 42 yo (and female).

My concern at this point is that I seem to be losing weight too rapidly for this stage of the game. I exercise daily, sometimes eat back a percentage of the calories, rarely all of them (very rarely, only when I'm super hungry and then I do because I feel like my body needs them).

But my whooshes seem to be 5 pounds at a time. Maybe that's okay, because I lose roughly .5-1 pound a month aside from the "whoosh" (which I've only been experiencing for the past 2 months anyway).

Is this normal? Have you experienced this? MFP gives me 1200 calories, but my maintenance is only about 1500 anyway (pathetic, right, thanks short genes!!!).

Should I start slowing down my losses? I thought at this point .5 pound was what I should be shooting for - it's hard to make that adjustment.

Just curious. (Of course tonight I went about 600 over, didn't exercise, and had so much sodium - tomorrow's reading will be ugly, but a blip).

Thoughts?

That's exactly how my body loses weight. I will hold onto a plateau for four weeks then for another week lose a pound a day. Then it will go back up to a couple of pounds under the plateau, stay there for two or three weeks, then here's comes another whoosh. Drives me nuts.

THIS! This. Exactly this. Plummets down, small bounce up, nothing nothing nothing. Rinse and repeat.

It. Is. A. Trip!

Hey, as long as we're losing - but this particular method our body has chosen does make it more difficult to stay with the plan!!!

Karen_can_do_this

Jmgkamp wrote: »

atypicalsmith wrote: »

Jmgkamp wrote: »

As of this morning I'm 16.8 pounds from MFPs goal weight for me (and 26.8 from where I'd like to end up). I have been tracking for 7 months and have lost 68.2 pounds. I'm 5'2" and 42 yo (and female).

My concern at this point is that I seem to be losing weight too rapidly for this stage of the game. I exercise daily, sometimes eat back a percentage of the calories, rarely all of them (very rarely, only when I'm super hungry and then I do because I feel like my body needs them).

But my whooshes seem to be 5 pounds at a time. Maybe that's okay, because I lose roughly .5-1 pound a month aside from the "whoosh" (which I've only been experiencing for the past 2 months anyway).

Is this normal? Have you experienced this? MFP gives me 1200 calories, but my maintenance is only about 1500 anyway (pathetic, right, thanks short genes!!!).

Should I start slowing down my losses? I thought at this point .5 pound was what I should be shooting for - it's hard to make that adjustment.

Just curious. (Of course tonight I went about 600 over, didn't exercise, and had so much sodium - tomorrow's reading will be ugly, but a blip).

Thoughts?

That's exactly how my body loses weight. I will hold onto a plateau for four weeks then for another week lose a pound a day. Then it will go back up to a couple of pounds under the plateau, stay there for two or three weeks, then here's comes another whoosh. Drives me nuts.

THIS! This. Exactly this. Plummets down, small bounce up, nothing nothing nothing. Rinse and repeat.

It. Is. A. Trip!

Me three grrrrrrr

blankiefinder

If you are losing 6-7 pounds per month, it's fine. Slightly fast when you are this close to goal, so you could consider eating back a bit more of your exercise calories.

Of Wooshes and Squishy Fat