"Perfect weight" anxiety

richardgavel

mommarnurse wrote: »

QuietBloom wrote: »

One of the things that successful maintainers do is weight themselves every day. That way they can quickly catch any gains before they turn into much bigger gains. You say you have a lot of anxiety in general - have you seen anyone for it? Medication and cognitive behavioral therapy saved my life.

Best.

http://www.livescience.com/53863-best-way-keep-weight-off.html

Hm. Interesting article. It says, literally, to consume 1380 calories a day and to exercise 45 minutes a day. Those numbers don't make sense unless you're seriously tiny. For example, to maintain my weight without exercise I'm at 1850 and my TDEE is more like 2200-2300. & I do cardio maybe a total of 200 hours a week because of my work schedule. & I think that's realistic for a lot of people in maintenance.

It also says that those who have lost weight have slowed metabolisms than those who have always been that weight - something I look at suspiciously also. It says those who never gained he weight can eat 300-400 more calories a day and not gain weight.

Man, in addition to losing weight, you've managed to alter the laws of reality! 200 hours of cardio in a 168 hour week!

BrandNewMan1970

I am sure some of you share the same fear I have, that I am going to forget how to do this and all 70 is coming back overnight. Sometimes I obsess over this. I can't help it, I work out very hard and eat well I just fear it coming back. I guess after 45 years of fat I feel like I can never escape it

srcurran

I am too obsessive to weigh myself every day. A couple times a week is enough.

Raucella

i agree with some once a week weigh in is perfect! or weight for the trash man and throw the scale away

meganjcallaghan

CrabNebula wrote: »

The exceptions would be for vacations which I calorie bank for and try to get to the bottom or even below the range so I can eat like a blue whale. .

baaahahaha! I thought I was the only one who did that. The bottom of my range according to the BMI for my height is technically 118, although my height is almost 3 inches less than it was a few years ago due to my spine leaning to the right after an injury, so if I go by my old height to suit my actual frame it would be more like 123 at the bottom of my range. That said, because I've lost around 170 pounds and a good portion of what's left is just loose skin weight that isn't actually doing anything for me, I find the BMI not to be terribly accurate for me anyway. For example, certain female "functions" cease to operate if I dip below 136...so I'd say that's probably a better indicator of what the bottom of my healthy weight range is....thus I usually aim to stay at between 140 and 145 for my range. Unless vacation is coming. Then I dive to 135 and eat my way back out of the pit. MMMM!!! (I've also found this knowledge to be useful in prepping for surgery. I was due to start lady time the day of my nephrectomy. How inconvenient would THAT have been. Dropped a wack of weight so I wouldn't have to deal with such things AND i could feast on whatever I wanted while I wasn't allowed to exercise for 2 months. lol)

mommarnurse

richardgavel wrote: »

mommarnurse wrote: »

QuietBloom wrote: »

One of the things that successful maintainers do is weight themselves every day. That way they can quickly catch any gains before they turn into much bigger gains. You say you have a lot of anxiety in general - have you seen anyone for it? Medication and cognitive behavioral therapy saved my life.

Best.

http://www.livescience.com/53863-best-way-keep-weight-off.html

Hm. Interesting article. It says, literally, to consume 1380 calories a day and to exercise 45 minutes a day. Those numbers don't make sense unless you're seriously tiny. For example, to maintain my weight without exercise I'm at 1850 and my TDEE is more like 2200-2300. & I do cardio maybe a total of 200 hours a week because of my work schedule. & I think that's realistic for a lot of people in maintenance.

It also says that those who have lost weight have slowed metabolisms than those who have always been that weight - something I look at suspiciously also. It says those who never gained he weight can eat 300-400 more calories a day and not gain weight.

Man, in addition to losing weight, you've managed to alter the laws of reality! 200 hours of cardio in a 168 hour week!

Lmao!. Guilty of a typo, definitely meant minutes

AnnPT77

mommarnurse wrote: »

QuietBloom wrote: »

One of the things that successful maintainers do is weight themselves every day. That way they can quickly catch any gains before they turn into much bigger gains. You say you have a lot of anxiety in general - have you seen anyone for it? Medication and cognitive behavioral therapy saved my life.

Best.

http://www.livescience.com/53863-best-way-keep-weight-off.html

Hm. Interesting article. It says, literally, to consume 1380 calories a day and to exercise 45 minutes a day. Those numbers don't make sense unless you're seriously tiny. For example, to maintain my weight without exercise I'm at 1850 and my TDEE is more like 2200-2300. & I do cardio maybe a total of 200 hours a week because of my work schedule. & I think that's realistic for a lot of people in maintenance.

It also says that those who have lost weight have slowed metabolisms than those who have always been that weight - something I look at suspiciously also. It says those who never gained he weight can eat 300-400 more calories a day and not gain weight.

The table in the article says exactly 1380 calories. The article (literally) says that's what the studied folks averaged, it doesn't say everyone should eat that. It also has more nuanced detail about the exercise, and you are citing only the table.

I, too, have doubts about the metabolic slowdown thing, based on my personal n=1. But the article does later say, of exercise, "studies suggest it can prevent the metabolic slowdown that happens with weight loss". Perhaps your 200 minutes a week (and my 300-500) was enough?

I do strenuously object to its suggestion that eating the same things all the time is good because it gets boring, and one doesn't want to eat as much of boring things! If I'm going to limit calories, I'm pretty darn motivated to make them interesting, tasty ones.

lma0423

I didn't read through all the comments, so not sure if this was mentioned already, but have you heard of the app "Happy Scale"? It actually works best if you enter your weight every day. The app smooths out your daily scale weights and tells you your "real" weight.

Timshel_

nvigliotte wrote: »

Am I the only one that has a lot more anxiety now that I am at what I feel is the perfect weight for me? Every night I wonder.. did I eat enough to maintain this weight? Did I eat too much?

Been there, stressed that but have overcome it. I know my weight in any given year fluctuates around 10 pounds, but that allows me to enjoy the holidays and such. I know I can drop it back down over a few months so I don't sweat it as long as I don't start feeling overweight again.