at what point I should stop losing weight?

ahousejump wrote: »

Hello, wondering at what point I should stop losing weight? I’m 6’ tall 33 years old, started @ 292lbs, now down to 196lbs after 9 month using the app. I do 1h of exercise every day, half hour of weights & half hour on the treadmill, changing up the weight exercises every day to not work the same muscle groups 2 days in a row. Body looks good, feel great, still have a loose fat tire around the mid-section, not sure if fat or just loose skin. I want to continue my exercise, is it time now to switch to maintain weight and keep exercising to start building muscle and tighten up the loose skin? or keep going till I'm down to 180 or 175 before switching to maintain weight? Any advice would be helpful. Thanks,

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

I think if you were making yourself sick or looking and/or being dangerously under weight that would be a good time to stop.. however, between you now and a healthy weight is entirely up to you, people making comments arent you, you do you. If you are healthy, thats all that matters.

However some things i've discovered since hitting goal weight and regaining 15 pounds, is that.. at 135 pounds i still had belly fat.. and while i could of tried to get some form of a flat stomach, i was 300 pounds and have a lot of loose skin so i couldn't really imagine my efforts being what i actually visioned in my brain.

Also there isnt really all that much difference between me at 135 and the weight i am now... i lost some of those 15 pounds but the 6 that are left.. meh.. so this time i basically say.. if it comes off it comes off lol if it doesn't, it doesn't cause ive already been there, i know its not going to be victoria secret fashion shoot body

ahousejump wrote: »

I think my post has been hijacked by other folks...lol. Anyone have advice for me?

1. You could start gradually increasing your calories eaten, maybe by 100 daily, then waiting a couple of weeks to a month, and repeating, until you coast into maintenance calories and see your weight stabilize. This would give you some very slow additional loss along the way, and let you gradually learn how best to spend your extra calories at maintenance, rather than waiting and making a single big calorie jump later (which for some can be a splurge/binge temptation). I did this & found it helpful.
2. You could take a maintenance break, eat at maintenance calories for your current weight, and see how your body responds. It's not an irreversible decision, so if you decide you want to lose a few more pounds, you just go back to a small calorie deficit.

Loose skin is very thin - like if you pinch the skin on the back of your hand & pull that up, for most of us. It tends to hang in narrow wrinkly ways, almost like folds of a fabric like fine-rib corduroy or lightweight velveteen. Anything thicker is probably still skin with a subcutaneous fat layer, or possibly what I think of as "squishy fat".

IME, fat cells seem not to politely deplete themselves from the outer layer on one's body to the inner layer, but often randomly through one's fat mass, leaving the remainder hanging out on one's body in a less-firm form, i.e., "squishier", maybe hang-ier. This causes thicker folds if it's hang-y, like maybe stuffed-comforter-sized folds or bigger.

Personally, I decided to keep losing until I felt like the remaining fat on my fatter parts was not dragging down on the skin in those areas, under the influence of gravity. I think this might only work if you haven't lost massive amounts (I ended up losing just over 60 pounds,180s to 120s).