Do you believe in "Set Points"?

MiniCooperDeb

My digital scale weighs in 10ths of pounds, (as in 1-fatty-2.4). I struggle to lose .2 pounds, then down .4. Sometimes I lose a whole pound (not often). But then I'll have a "bad" day, maybe more sodium, maybe more calories than I should. And BAM! The next morning my weight is right back up to 1-fatty-2.4. I mean, exactly to the 10th. It's like my body LIKES that weight and is darn well not going to give it up without a struggle. Anyone else believe in set-points? I sure do. And I don't think I like them!

WBB55

I believe in them in the sense that if I eat a certain way and follow the same schedule every day and don't weigh my food and just eat whenever I feel like I should, then my body will find an equilibrium. My set point for most of my adult life has been about 180-185. When I stop paying attention to calories, but don't eat like a douche, that's where I tend to end up.

Perhaps some people call that a set point.

If so, then my new set point is about 165. That's where I tend to end up if I stop paying attention now. So if there is such a thing as a set point, then I also would believe you can change yours.

quietHiker

I had to read that twice lol loooooong morning and it's only 8AM!

I think your body gets to a point where it likes where it's at....but that's when we need to get an even BIGGER stick and beat some sense into it and tell it that it will like another weight number soooo much better

MaraDiaz

I believe there are certain weights where my body wants to put on the brakes. My hunger intensifies and my weight loss slows.

Also when I was a teenager my body was quite happy at 145-ish. Every time I lost weight I went back up to that weight again when I started eating again (I was a bad crash dieter). So I believe that was the first weight my body liked. However, it wasn't a healthy weight and I didn't gain to that weight by eating healthy, I gained by pigging out on junk.

Then after I had my son my body seemed to like 175 and for a long time I didn't go over that. It actually took some pigout effort to hit the 180s. Once I did though, I never stopped gaining until I decided I'd had enough.