YES! I hit my original goal!

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!

Congratulations!

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!

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!

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

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.

Fantastic! Keep it going.

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

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.

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.

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.

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*