Last two pounds
sevfam
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Why cant I keep off these last two pounds? I reach my goal weight, then I gain two back. I can hold at this weight but I really dont want these extra two pounds. Why is it that I can hold here, but not two pounds lighter?
Im not that upset by it but it does bother me. Thanks.
Im not that upset by it but it does bother me. Thanks.
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Our weight is not static - it fluctuates daily even when eating the same calorie amount for a number of reasons (storing food, water, glycogen, etc.). If I drink alcohol or consume a lot of carbs, I will add a few more pounds than on days I don't. As long as you return to your baseline weight, there isn't any reason to worry.0
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Our weight is not static - it fluctuates daily even when eating the same calorie amount for a number of reasons (storing food, water, glycogen, etc.). If I drink alcohol or consume a lot of carbs, I will add a few more pounds than on days I don't. As long as you return to your baseline weight, there isn't any reason to worry.
This^^^ Nobody weight exactly XXX Lbs all of the time. When I maintain I can fluctuate up or down 2-3 Lbs...if you put it on a graph, it looks like a series of waves...if you draw a line through the middle, that's about what my true weight is. But it's not static, just as weight loss isn't linear.0 -
Thanks guys, that makes good sense. Im a bit OCD and for me not to see the same number every time on the scale, it make me nuts! Lol!0
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As soon as you stop restricting calories your glycogen reserves start building up again and you gain a little. I was always told to lose a couple more pounds than your goal to eventually 'stabilise' (although you will go up and down a bit over time) at the weight you want.0
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I so hear you. I have a 5 pound 'goal zone' I'm planning on staying within. Hit the top of it 3 weeks and kept bouncing higher and out of the zone.
HOWEVER, three weeks later, I've been in it four days in a row. I think I'm dropping again.
Some things I noticed about myself . . .
I feel like I've finished - hit the goal - so have gotten a tiny bit sloppier. I log always, but don't always do all those tiny things that add up, like the mayo on the sandwich or the bite of food while I'm cooking. It adds a few hundred calories.
Have you updated your goals? MFP doesn't update your calories if you log weight loss in small increments. When I do it manually, it always knocks another 30 calories off my day This makes a difference. If I hadn't changed manually, I'd be eating 270 calories more a day than I should be.) That puts me in maintenance and not on a deficit.
I am hitting my goals, but closer. I used to often be 100 calories or so lower than my goals - or more. Now I'm within 5 calories or so.
And then there's water weight and salt.
All of which is why I have a success 'zone'. I am happy at 155. I am going to go down to 150 so when I bounce up and down I'll always be under 155. I don't want to bounce above that.0 -
Lots of great info here, thanks to you all.
@ NXD10 I keep my goals set at loose 1 pound a week. I have to stay at or around 1200 calories a day or I gain. I can never seem to set it at maintain.0 -
Thanks guys, that makes good sense. Im a bit OCD and for me not to see the same number every time on the scale, it make me nuts! Lol!
I know exactly what you mean haha.0 -
I fluctuate around 4 or 5 pounds. My pattern tends to be down to lowest weight, then back up 3 lbs, then gradually back down. I lost down to 129 (my goal was 130) and then stopped, but I'm happy as long as I'm in the 129-133 range.0
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If you want to see a steady line, try using http://www.weightgrapher.com/about you can enter in past weight too. It'll help smooth out what looks like constant gain/loss.0
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I fluctuate around 4 or 5 pounds. My pattern tends to be down to lowest weight, then back up 3 lbs, then gradually back down. I lost down to 129 (my goal was 130) and then stopped, but I'm happy as long as I'm in the 129-133 range.
Exactly my pattern too. I weigh every day, but I just know I'm going to cycle like this. I keep bouncing lower and lower.
I have a feeling I'm never going to get to maintenance either, even when I hit my final weight. I think that may be why I very slowly gained the weight I did over the last 15 years. My calorie allowance to lose a pound a week is now down to 1230. But at this, I am now only losing maybe half a pound a week because I am essentially at my goal (I'm back to where I was when I was slim and graduated from college and my doctor told me I am at a good weight and shouldn't lose more than 5 more pounds.)
If I went back up to 'maintenance' I'm sure I would gain. As I am happy where I am (plus or minus a few pounds), I think I might be better off eating at this level but allowing myself a day or so a week where I don't worry about going over by 200 calories or so. Oddly enough, after doing this for 9 months, those extra 200 calories seem extravagant!0
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