Maintaining, sort of...wish this was easier.

If you're 5'5" (as your profile says), perhaps your body is telling you you need to weigh a bit more?

I'm 5'6" and 130-135.

Yes, I'm 5'5" as stated on my profile. I thought I was 5'4" (last measured at age 14) but was recently measured this year and they confirmed I was 5'5" :laugh:

Well, best of luck. I stand by my concern that your weight will be hard to maintain when it's 20ish pounds less than what it probably wants to be. But again, best of luck.

A woman who is 5'5" should be 115 at the least to be healthy. Your goal is unrealistic if you want maintain and be underweight. I'm extremely surprised your doctor didn't mention this. Also, a gain of about 5-8 lbs shouldn't put you up a size if you really weight lift. There are women who actually gained 10lbs, but lost a pant size because of weight lifting. is being a size 1-2 really that big of a deal?

When going to the doctor I always wear clothes that put me well into the healthy weight range, I don't disclose my true weight to my doctor. Then she would really dismiss my concerns about weight gain. The extra water weight I put on from my occasional over eating does not cause my clothes to not fit. I just don't feel or look as thin as I want. Maintaining at 105-110 I believe is the best range for my body. I have a small frame and any weight gain shows right away.

Massive red flags here. I would go to your doctor and tell her the truth, accepting that she may (and rightly so) be concerned with your weight. Be honest and get the help you need. Take care of your son's mother. :flowerforyou:

First, lots of people change that much from salt.

Second, you know overeating makes you feel lousy. It helps me to eat more modestly when I think about whether eating will really make me feel GOOD or if I'm just eating from habit. A little is good. More is not always better.

Third, as a food lover, a small amount of really flavorful, fantastic food is SO much more satisfying than a lot of food that is only okay. Go for quality and flavor. Often that's healthy. Sometimes it's not. That's okay.

Good luck!

I just looked at your diary, please - please eat more than 1000 calories a day. And if you over-eat don't punish yourself the next few days by eating less.

I have a long ways to go and I have been here many times before, but I am trying to adjust my way of thinking this round and I really think it's the ticket for me. Maybe it will be something for you to consider.

While I am definitely watching the scale as I go, what I am trying to do is focus on my health overall, and taking care of my body in the best way possible. I feel that if I do this, then the weight loss will happen – maybe not super fast, but whatever. I am focused on eating as many whole foods as possible, for example, drinking lots of water, and getting plenty of exercise. I want to be strong and treat my body like a temple. I want to feel comfortable, and I want to live a long, happy life.

I have a tendency toward obsessiveness about food. I have had issues all my life and I am really trying hard to hit a balance. The most important thing is the overall view – not only the weight loss.

It would be helpful to get some therapy – I know I would love to! There are online therapists you can work with now, have you looked into that?

Unless I am crazy, OP lost 55 or so pounds from when she joined, according to her profile, in July 2013, and November (she doesn't put year, but assumed 2013), so 55 pounds in 4 months. I guess it's possible, but that seems like a huge amount to me. I've lost 12 pounds (and I realize everybody is different) since 05/18, and I am sure much of that was just water, so I expect my losses to drop off some over the next few months and probably won't come near losing 55 pounds in 4 months.

I hope, OP, you are being safe in your weight loss/maintaining plans. I think you look fantastic though and you should just enjoy life now that you are thinner.

I know its hard to stop thinking of it. I think of losing 24/7, and constantly about what food I am going to eat, calories int his or that, it is driving me batty, honestly and I am only a month into it. Not so much with cravings, but just constantly thinking about calories. I don’t feel that is a healthy way to live for ME. I wake up, weigh myself. eat, weigh myself, pee/poop, yup weigh myself. Shower, yup, weigh myself like a shower will somehow magically melt off pounds. It is becoming just all too crazy for me.

Before I ate 2 (what I considered small) baked potatoes, not weighed, sorry, but it took me probably half an hour to find an entry I liked in the database to add it. They all are so different from one another. I couldn't decide if they were small or medium potatoes, so just went with the larger so I don’t underestimate my calories. This to me is just nutso. I have 2 jobs, 3 kids I have to feed, house to care for, etc. a boatload of animals, and I know you all do too of varying degrees, but it all seems just a bit obsessive to me. I think it hurts my weight loss too in some aspects.

Just be careful, and try to love yourself.

You are right in thinking you might need psychological help. I'm going to be awfully blunt, it sounds like you could have an eating disorder. Or - at the very least - disordered eating behavior. At your height, 107 sounds awfully tiny. When I was under what seems to be my body's natural weight, I was hungry all the time, too. Even now, I think about food a lot. To the point of obsession. The more nourished I make myself, the less I think about food. But at one point, it was literally all I could think about. Down to planning my meals hours in advance. Drooling over them before I even made them. I'd finish breakfast, and plan dinner! I went through this during both my binge eating/compulsive eating days and during recovery from restriction. I won't ask how you got to 107, as that might be something you don't want to talk about, or perhaps you did it the relatively healthy way of 1200 calories and exercise, maybe you even did it on 1600 calories and exercise. I don't know. But I will say that if you restricted too heavily (less than 1200) or if you did 1200, this reaction your body is having is not abnormal, and it could ease in due time if you gain a few pounds back.

Something that has helped me is exactly what another poster suggested. Throwing out the scale. I even removed my current weight from MFP. The weight listed is the weight I was back in February. I had updated it, but deleted it. When I get around scales, that's what triggers my obsession with restriction, which triggers my (far more than) healthy appetite. See, I have battled EDNOS. (Which is OEFEDor something like that now) It is common for those of us who do to go through periods of binge eating, restriction, over exercising, etc Another thing that has helped has been browsing the MFP forums. Seeing that it's normal to be 125, 145, 135 lbs etc. As for someone our height, those weights are preferable.

Just wanted to second the posters who said your goal weight range sounds low. I'm 5'4" and my goal range is 125-130. That's a healthy, athletic body for me. And clothes shopping is fun at that weight. If I go lower (I did a few years ago) friends start asking me if I've been sick. Definitely not the impression I want to create!

I know every body is different, and you put a high value on being a size zero, so my goal range will probably never work for you. Just saying maybe a little higher weight than 105-110 would be better for your height. And if that idea causes you a lot of anxiety, talking to a counselor really does sound like something worth doing.

Same here. At 5'3", I'm happy around 125 plus or minus a few pounds. I've gained 8 lbs over the last few weeks and I look better than I ever have.

opps, I meant 2 months.