Anyone lost the weight regained then lost again?
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Feeling rather annoyed at myself. Having lost 4.5 stone then regained over two due to multiple surgeries for health reasons.
Has anyone else managed to lose it again and any tips?
Has anyone else managed to lose it again and any tips?
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Yep! Lost from 205(ish) to 140 in 2012, gained 45 back over the next few years, and lost it again plus 10 more so far since mid-2017.
No tips specially applicable to re-losing, other than try to learn from your mistakes (Why did I fail at maintenance? Was it because I lost in a way that is unsustainable for me, and if so how can I fix that this time?) And don't be mad at yourself. It happens to a lot of us
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Over and over and over and over...9
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oh yes. Each time Ive lost and gained Ive learned something though.1
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Oooooh yeah. Seems to be a pretty normal occurance for me lol Hope to keep it off for good this time!! Main thing it to be aware of my weight (keep stepping on the scale and weigh in). It creeps up if I don't keep an eye on it. Overall: Just don't give up!
Here's my yo-yo timeline over the last 15 years:
Age:14-16, 160-170lbs
17-19, 180-220lbs (my "big" years)
20-23, 150-160lbs (started my first weightloss journey and maintained for a while)
24-25, 165-180lbs (slacked a bit)
26-27, 150-155lbs (lost some wieght again)
27-28, 160-200lbs (Pregnancy #1)
28-29, 175-200lbs (Pregnancy #2 lol)
CW @ 30, 164lbs
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I have been blessed with a love of sugar, and a stronger than normal desire to be slim. As a result, I've been at goal weight 5 times. Hopefully this will be my final transition. I gave myself a choice, yoyo for the rest of my life or stop having sugar. I chose the latter.2
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I really have only done this once before. I was in the 200s since my teens, like 240-260, but at age 22 after surgery and steroidal treatments for a spider bite, I found myself at 299 lb. I started drinking diet soda (instead of regular soda) and being strict with what I ate, mostly eating at home just omelets, sandwiches, fruit & veggies...partly because I was single and poor...and I got down to 227 lb which was very good for me. I'd only been at 299 for a summer...and then I was soon around 227-235 for 2 years.
Then I met my now ex, and we ate WAY too much and were lazy. He was a very big guy as were many of his friends, and we did a ton of entertaining/cooking at home...I always ate less than the guys, but still WAY too much! I really had no concept of appropriate portions. I was back at 260 almost immediately after marrying. I stayed in that range for many many years and then at one point got up to 307 lb, my heaviest.
I lost all the weight and more in my mid 30s and now at 42, I am currently at 170 and have been in the 160s-170s for almost six years so far. For me it was a slow process of "eating healthier, moving more" until I began calorie counting with MFP and then it came off pretty fast. I am now a slightly lazy tracker but stay here to maintain. My weight has fluctuated very little since 2014...I believe my lowest is 164 and highest, 181. I am 5'8".
I plan to do some version of calorie counting forever.1 -
I lost 105lbs but it was ultimately unsustainable and my mental health was in a bad way, so I gained it all back. This time I've lost 85lbs and kept it off for a year. I'm working on the last 50lbs but it's far more sustainable this time and I fully believe even if I don't lose the last 50lbs I'll have no trouble maintaining this weight. I do think I can lose the 50lbs though, with the way I've been doing it. And keep it off, which is the most important!3
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yup. i did. stopped watching what i ate. moved less. and gained about half back.
this time i'll be watching what i eat better when i get back down to maintenance.1 -
JessPickle wrote: »Feeling rather annoyed at myself. Having lost 4.5 stone then regained over two due to multiple surgeries for health reasons.
Has anyone else managed to lose it again and any tips?
Yes! I know what you mean, story of my life this past winter. Was down to my lowest weight- 230 pounds. Then the holidays/winter came (along with some other issues) and gained about 20 pounds. But now I'm back down again. I did it by eliminating/avoiding a lot of the trigger foods like fast food and cookies, also by going for a mostly plant-based diet. Not entirely, I'm not completely vegetarian, but most of my day is fresh fruits and veggies. Like so far today, I've had a banana and strawberries for mid-AM snack, salad at lunchtime, apple this afternoon and roasted brussel sprouts & asparagus with turkey later on. Some days I go completely vegetarian and do plant based proteins like beans, tofu, meatless products, etc. But the bulk of my day is vegetables and fruit.
Also I went back to doing the exercise regimen that I know works for me- 10-20 minutes cardio, 30 minutes or so on weights 4-5 days a week.
Everyone's a little different, so of course you have to do some experimenting and find what works for you. These are just simply recommendations based on what I've found works. Don't worry- as long as you are trying to eat healthy and exercise, you will make progress again. You will get there!0 -
From 2010 - mid 2014; went from 194 to 146.
From mid 2014 to 2015; went from 146 to 185.
From 2016 to Present; 185 to 140s.
I learnt from this experience that I need to keep tracking and weighing what I eat. In addition, “it’s easy to gain, but harder to lose” (in my experience).
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I could eat whatever I wanted until I was about 35, then the fat fairy found me. Over the past 31 years I have gone from 110lbs to my current 220lbs. During these years I have lost and regained several times. I started MFP in 2012 at 210 and over 3 years I lost 50lbs and kept it off for two years. I’m back to it again. For some of us it’s a repeating process.0
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Boy it is a struggle!!!0
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Yep been there. Lost 6st in my 30's, got pregnant, got divorced, made redundant twice and put it all back on plus a bit more.
As I reached 50 I'd lost 4st of it and now I'm on with the next 4st.
For me it's all about determination and a strong desire to be healthy, if I'm not in that zone mentally I've got no chance. It's been tough since Christmas and I plateaued but the switch has been flicked and I'm back to it.
Log everything you put in your mouth, create that deficit and go for it.
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Yearly. Sticking with it is the tough part, losing and gaining is easy. Its keeping it off that I struggle with. Falling into old habits is too easy and honestly its easier to be unhealthy than healthy in our civilization.0
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story of my life.
The principals don't change. Calories in versus Calories out. Log food religiously and get to doing some sort of exercise..whatever you can stick with.
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Most people have gained, lost, gained, lost n times. Few of us, and I almost include myself in this group, have figured out how to stop that sinusoidal cycle.0
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Yes happens to a lot of us! was about 175 in 2010, lost to 127 and maintained for a little bit, then started an absolutely soul-sucking job for 2 years and then was unemployed working crappy contracts here and there and gained to 191 in Jan 2018 I started losing weight again and am currently at 146 hoping to get back down to 127.
For me it's all mental, I eat my bad feelings so if life is going well losing/maintaining is easy but as soon as life throws me a curve ball I crumble, I need to work on that if I am to succeed at keeping the weight off this time because life will happen either way.
For me intuitive eating does not work, my "stop eating you're satiated" signal is broken so I will be a life long calorie tracker. I think once I've maintained for a year or so I will relax and only weigh/track calorie dense foods like cheese and avocado but I do plan on doing this forever.2 -
Yes, many times (4 times throughout my twenties, all coinciding with big life changes). But I seem to have figured it out now. This weight loss took longer, but the habits appear to be sticking around, even through stressful stuff and a life change.
My thirties are looking thin. Woot. (Though that first year was not thin at all, to be fair.)0 -
BattyKnitter wrote: »Yes happens to a lot of us! was about 175 in 2010, lost to 127 and maintained for a little bit, then started an absolutely soul-sucking job for 2 years and then was unemployed working crappy contracts here and there and gained to 191 in Jan 2018 I started losing weight again and am currently at 146 hoping to get back down to 127.
For me it's all mental, I eat my bad feelings so if life is going well losing/maintaining is easy but as soon as life throws me a curve ball I crumble, I need to work on that if I am to succeed at keeping the weight off this time because life will happen either way.
For me intuitive eating does not work, my "stop eating your satiated" signal is broken so I will be a life long calorie tracker. I think once I've maintained for a year or so I will relax and only weigh/track calorie dense foods like cheese and avocado but I do plan on doing this forever.
Wow, you're like my weight loss twin. Nearly all of this is samesies for me, except timeline. Good luck on your journey, friend. You can do it!1 -
I'm on my...let's say 3rd journey. A few years ago I joined MFP at 300+, dropped 75 lbs. I got a little too into the social side of the app and when I needed a break from that I took a break from the app altogether thinking I could do it all by myself. Then I had a second job which stopped me from going to the gym. My living situation changed and it was less home cooked meals and I crept back to 300+. I got back to my routine but this time I only got to 40 lbs lost before I slowly started to lose motivation and reached my heaviest ever weight. And so it brings me here where I've lost 10 lbs, dropped a pant size but have a way to go. Nearing 30, the lbs drop a little slower but as long as they're dropping I think I'll be okay. I know I can do it, cuz I have done it twice. 3rd times the charm.0
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When I graduated highschool in 2005 I decided to try to lose weight and start dating. I got down to 160.
I met my husband in 2006. After I moved I got up to 220+ lbs.
I had a wake up call when I finally got my husband to admit that he wasn't as physically attracted to me as he once was. We had a discussion about it and we both agreed to try to get back in shape.
I got down to 170, hit a plateau, quit and gain some of it back.
A year or two later I got super serious and I got down to 140. I was in the best shape of my life.
Skipping details, life kind of punched me in the face and I gained almost all of my weight back.
Last year at work we had a biggest loser challenge and I started at 204 and got down to 183.
This year we decided to do it again. I started this year at 188 and I'm now back down to 176 with 5 more weeks of our challenge left. I plan to keep going past our challenge this year and try to get back down to that 140.
Maintaining can be just as challenging as losing and I'm walking proof. You really just have to realize that being healthy is a lifestyle change you have to stick to forever. It's not something you can just do for a few months then go back to old habits. It just doesn't work that way.0 -
I have probably lost and gained 1,000 pounds if not more over my lifetime. The biggest swings have come in the last few years. 8 years ago I lost 106lbs going from 236 to 130. I then gained 143lbs taking me up to 273lbs. Lost 74lbs down to 199, and most recently gained 47lbs getting back up to 246. I'm currently in the losing phase. Every time I lose weight it gets harder and harder. If I don't lose it and make it stick this time, I'm not sure that I'll ever be able to. #debbiedowner1
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So far I've been working out 3-4x a week alternating from Boot camp, Kickboxing, Zumba and Pilate's going on 5 weeks and have not seen any weight loss results... Very disappointed...
I am looking to loose another 20-30 lbs but I haven't dropped any weight what so ever... I am also eating healthy, I've been on a low carb diet kinda like Keto but not strict keto for almost 1 year now. The recent 10lbs have been the worse. I've been fluctuating on and off 180-190lbs and it's driving me up the wall... I want to drop another 30lbs but these 10lbs don't want to leave me. When I have a bad weekend I easily gain 8-10lbs on the weekend alone, does anyone else have a weight gain like that? Its ridiculous. It takes me all week to loose 5-8lbs and on one bad day I gain it all back... Total BS!!!!
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Went from 148 to 108 (in about a year and a half) then hovered around 112-115 for while. Then the holidays hit and I ballooned back up to 130. Currently at 129 and hoping to work my way to at least 120 so my two pairs of "skinny" jeans (their not really that type, I just call them that) will fit comfortably. I don't need to go as low as I did, then they almost fell off lol.0
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My highest weight was 288. I got down to 219 in 2015 and then got sick and ended up gaining back up to 257. A couple rough starts and stops in the past year got me down to 237 and I am currently finally finding my groove. Down fifteen pounds in the last three weeks and confident I'm going to get to goal (160 ish) this time and stay there. Or maybe even less, we'll see!0
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