YES! I hit my original goal!

deadmittens

When I first downloaded MFP onto my android I set my original goal at 280, not really thinking it would last and didn't want to set myself with a bar too high. Now, 5 months later, I hit that goal!

I've been stuck on a plateau for what seems like FOREVER trying to hit this measly goal, but after eating at a buffet TWICE this week and having a burger last night I finally hit it! I realized my body needs some variety rather than the exact same food EVERY night.
Does anyone else have luck with weird tricks like this? Eating REALLY bad one or two nights and then healthy the rest of the week? It seems to work for me.

Anyway... horray! As a total from my heaviest weight I've lost 56 lbs

tsmith6569

absolutely....that "weird little trick" works well! It is hard for our minds to comprehend that but it still works in spite of us...lol. Congrats!

CoachKaren

WOOOOO HOO!

fc8261

Congratulations!

deadmittens

Thanks guys!

BJPCraig

Congrats! Of course, now that you know it works, it's time to forget the "don't set the bar too high" goal and set your "ideal dream" goal and shoot for that! You can do it!

ShellyMacchi

cannot see your food diary so cannot really say... but is it possible you usually eat lower than your calorie goal and those buffets and burger meals gave you more calories consumed on those days?

if so that is very common.. to see a weight loss when you start eating more.

i had to up my calories (ie: eat all my base calories as well as at least 1/2 or more of my exercise calories) to break my plateau.

beach_chelle

Yay! congrats, varitey is ineed the spice of life. I am starting zig zagging before I hit a platue and hope that can help prevent a platue from developing. Keep up your hard work!

Claible

Yep, this works for me too. My sister and I call it the Bad Girl day!!LOL

EliseMarie24

Good for you! Tha't great that you found a little trick that works for you. :-)

Kelly_Wilson1990

Congratulations!!

deadmittens

cannot see your food diary so cannot really say... but is it possible you usually eat lower than your calorie goal and those buffets and burger meals gave you more calories consumed on those days?

if so that is very common.. to see a weight loss when you start eating more.

i had to up my calories (ie: eat all my base calories as well as at least 1/2 or more of my exercise calories) to break my plateau.

Yeah, I usually eat about 1300 a day when I'm supposed to be having 1650.

willow3eb

If you're supposed to be eating 1650, eat it. Doing 1300 may be too few and you're body is going to save what it can, hence you're stuck on a plateau. That said, YAY YOU!! That's awesome!

NancySDA

that sort of thing got me losing weight again. In fact, my husband watches what I'm eating and I know he is trying to figure out how I am still losing weight! LOL Of course, I have also found that another thing that helps me keep losing weight is to keep moving. It isn't the major exercises that we do, it is keeping the body in motion more than non-motion that revs the metabolism.

deadmittens

I hardly exercised at all this week. Last week I exercised almost every day and lost nothing, so this week I tried something different.

Benji49

Fantastic! Keep it going.

lorilynette

Firstly, congratulations. That's a lot of hard work showing up on the scale. It works for me too, changing things up. I think this really is the "normal" way to eat, and the way healthy thinner people eat. Eat clean and well most of the time and then every once in a while splurge. The trick for me is learning how much is every once in a while.

EricInArlington

That's awesome, I believe the same thing happen to me with the plateau thing, now I look at food as wood, water a fuel and my workouts as the spark that gets the weight to burn off. Sometimes I need to stack the wood just right, for the last 3 weeks now I have been losings 1-2 a week

HarpandWings

Sometimes you have to trick your body and your metabolism by changing up what you eat. It seems to work better for a lot of people when you add something to your food plan once in a while that would normally be considered off limits (within reason of course). Congrats on reaching your goal!

crisanderson27

Ok guys, shockingly...this:

When I first downloaded MFP onto my android I set my original goal at 280, not really thinking it would last and didn't want to set myself with a bar too high. Now, 5 months later, I hit that goal!

I've been stuck on a plateau for what seems like FOREVER trying to hit this measly goal, but after eating at a buffet TWICE this week and having a burger last night I finally hit it! I realized my body needs some variety rather than the exact same food EVERY night.
Does anyone else have luck with weird tricks like this? Eating REALLY bad one or two nights and then healthy the rest of the week? It seems to work for me.

Anyway... horray! As a total from my heaviest weight I've lost 56 lbs

Plus this:

I hardly exercised at all this week. Last week I exercised almost every day and lost nothing, so this week I tried something different.

Plus being sick (vomiting) and barely eating for two days or so...seems to be exactly how I finally broke the plateau I was on from eating 1500cal every day for two weeks (thanks to setting up MFP wrong).

I'd been eating 1500cal per MFP for two or so weeks, and my weight loss stalled at about 192. I kept eating clean, but upped my caloric intake (zig zagging) to between 1780cal and 2100cal or so a day (my diary is open) plus 2/3 my exercise calories, drinking craploads of water...working out with bodyweight 3+ days a week, then switching that to six days a week with P90x. NOTHING worked. Then I got sick, stopped exercising (for two weeks now), ate like a bird for those two days, then ate Taco Bell and Domino's for the next two days....and lost like 4lbs all at once lol.

I've switched my eating format to two to three days of quite low calories (around 1500-1800 tops usually), then one to two days of higher calories (1800-2000+). I've got to start working out again, as well as get back into my clean eating groove...but I'm very likely going to toss in some junk food/soft drinks here and there on my higher calorie days and see if the losses keep on steadily coming.

lloydmel

Congratulations! Your body finally let some weight go because it had enough intake and you didn't go to the gym this week much so it didn't feel the need to save anything. Congratulations on your huge loss! Glad you got through your plateau.

camy_chick

WAY TO GO! congrats on meeting your first goal. and your body does need change. just like if you did the same exercise every day for a long time, your body would get used to is, say 30 minutes on the treadmill for 2 days a week, your body gets used to it and needs more to get the same burn. just like an addiction, you can start with one, but then as you get used to it, you need more and more. well, your body needs more and more variation. there are MANY foods out there with the same calories as something you may normally eat, you just need to find the new food and try it out. and a "bad" eating day here and there, is good too cause then you get to "cheat" on your diet, but your body gets thrown off a bit too.

carbcuttingdiva

Yes~Yes~YES! CONGRATS!!

crisanderson27

I almost think I lost all the weight because my body rejected the junk food lol.

Almost like taking a laxative to clean your system =p.

BrandNewMia

GREAT JOB!!!

And yes, I do notice that I seem to lose better if I actually go over my calories one or two days a week. I guess there is a lot of truth to "eating more to LOSE more". Congrats on your success!!!

davidcookfan

That is awesome. I still haven't reached my goal yet but i keep trying. I was almost there.......then on my son's first bday i found out i had cancer. they got me intot he surgery quick and now i can say that i am cancer free. When my doc told me that the lump on my thyriod was cancer i cried and cried and ate and ate and ate. Once they removed everything inculding my thyriod, parathyriod, aniods,a nd everything closethey cleared up all the cancer. Right now my weight seems to be stuck at 200.6 i would go down to 198 then the next week i would go back up to 200. so i just keep the 198 on record here. I recenlty started kickboxing, so i am hoping that i get over this hurdle and bythe end of summer be under 200, and stay there LOL.

BUt anyways congrats on reaching your goal. *high fives you*

healthyjen342

well congrats to you! That is awesome!