Having trouble levelling out weight loss

sofrances

Thanks @AnnPT77. I am letting the scale decide, its just taking a while because I adjust my calories up 100, wait a week, tweak my exercise, wait another week, etc.

On the plus side, I reached the top end if my healthy weight range today - something I wasn't aiming for and wouldn't have said was a realistic goal. Not sure if I'll be able to stay there long term or if I'll have to fall back to my "keep it under BMI 27" goal, but its a nice feeling, anyway.

mylittlerainbow

I'm going to let my scale help me decide, too. I had gained back most of my weight after maintaining for a number of years (retiring and starting to eat meals out and travel a lot was not a good thing!) and was heavier again for three years, but I've just gotten back to the top of my goal weight range in the past few weeks.

I next spent 2 weeks at 100 calories per day higher than my reduction phase limit and am now in a 2-week period at 200 calories per day higher than my reduction phase. I have one more stint of that (my calorie limit was calculated at several places to be somewhere between 1322 and 1430, depending on which calculator you go by) and then I'll be at what is supposed to be my maintenance range.

But I'll continue weighing myself weekly and will tweak it up or down depending on how that goes. (I left myself a cushion when I went into this transitional mode by being at the TOP of my goal range so that I can lose a few more pounds during this 6 weeks, as I expect and as has already been happening, without worrying about getting too low.) And I don't eat back any of my exercise calories, so it's more a matter of keeping active and keeping my metabolism high and tautening my skin a bit and I don't really worry about the accuracy of MFP.