Yup. Hit Scream Weight.
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I knew it was coming, but today was the day. My goal weight is 125 (5-7”f) which I hit last Feb. Late summer creeped up to 135, over winter hit 145. Today, BAM! 150, the weight I said I would never see again. Technically, this doesn’t even belong in this thread, but you are my people. Yes, I know what needs to happen, but implementation is yet be seen. I do have incentive with a vacation in 45 days and no summer clothes that fit.
I dream of 150 and would be screaming for happiness, and that extra inch of height.....in your 40's 150 will rock (It's my goal now - I have 55 lbs to go...but am still trying to reach my phase one goal of 190). That being said - this isn't about me - yoru post is about you- there may be a new food item, or change in your work schedule/routine (as we get older we sit more at wor it seems), that is raising your weight. Good to get on top of it now, so it doesn't quickly turn to 175 (one sprained something away). Also, and I don't know how old you are, the metabolism slows each decade we get older. Good luck4 -
In October I was 2-3 pounds from my goal of 127-128, but someone broke heart and then with the holidays...I slowly got up to 144. That might not sound like a lot, but I am only 5'-2" tall. Today I saw 138, so I am motivated to log my calories and get my steps in!7
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we are your people! Some people are so mean on here. We are all here to support each other, so good to hear your honesty. So good to hear you are human and you mess up but don't give up. We will all help you and then you will be back helping us when we need it!8
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I'm so glad I found this thread. I hit my scream weight, too, last year.... had several injuries during the year leading up to that which meant my usually very active exercise regime was less active and certainly less consistent, and I most definitely had tantrums over eating appropriately - just refused to lower calories to go with the reduced activity. In fact worse - I was very much in the idgad mode and ate lots of rubbish, basically anything I wanted as much as I wanted. So no it wasn't a surprise that I gained some of my weight back, I knew why and I knew what I'd need to do about it... just didn't want to actually do it. It took me until last autumn to get my head together and get on with it. OP pretty much everything you write, I could have written myself!
I've been losing slow but steady over the winter, got within 1 kg of my goal weight of 57kg (not the lowest I've been, but it was my happy weight a few years ago - not too hard to maintain but still looked and felt good). Not lost any in the last month, and really struggling to eat at deficit now. And not sure whether to have a diet break, switch to recomp or just tell myself to suck it up and deal with that last kg. I'm sure it wasn't this hard the first time around...
Anyway... very much relate with what is discussed here. Support group sounds like a fabulous idea!
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@SummerSkier can’t say I’m back in a deficit, but I’m fully committed to not gaining another pound while I get my head back in the game. I read half the book (refuse to regain) and put the food scale back on the counter today..,baby steps.
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Hey the food scale back on the counter is great! I have every faith in you Nowine. I do have to admit that the folks I worry about the most are the ones who have just completely disappeared from MFP. I could throw names out but we know who they are. I hope like all get out they just "got off the island" but I do worry that somehow they are just struggling and afraid or embarrassed to reach out here or privately to MFP friends. I really do applaud you for being able to step out of the tar pit you are in and at least raise your hand up!11
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I was one of the tar-pit people my last go-round in 2013. Lost 75# while being very active on MFP. Hit goal and dropped out of sight. ONE short year it took me to gain it all back.
So after losing 75# again (at one point it was 99#) I’m taking a very different approach including leaning in to you with more experience, and weighing every day - even if i don’t like what I see.
If anyone is reading this that is uncomfortable about being in the same situation. Please either post, or PM. It feels so nice to know that this group has your back!20 -
I was one of the tar-pit people my last go-round in 2013. Lost 75# while being very active on MFP. Hit goal and dropped out of sight. ONE short year it took me to gain it all back.
So after losing 75# again (at one point it was 99#) I’m taking a very different approach including leaning in to you with more experience, and weighing every day - even if i don’t like what I see.
If anyone is reading this that is uncomfortable about being in the same situation. Please either post, or PM. It feels so nice to know that this group has your back!
Been there, done that as well. I lost from 205 to 140 (briefly in the 130s) in 2012 then let myself drift back up to 185 over the next few years. Now I've lost it again plus some and am eying maintenance nervously. I feel more prepared this time around, but I also know how easy it is to slip back.8 -
SummerSkier wrote: »Hey the food scale back on the counter is great! I have every faith in you Nowine. I do have to admit that the folks I worry about the most are the ones who have just completely disappeared from MFP. I could throw names out but we know who they are. I hope like all get out they just "got off the island" but I do worry that somehow they are just struggling and afraid or embarrassed to reach out here or privately to MFP friends. I really do applaud you for being able to step out of the tar pit you are in and at least raise your hand up!
That is indeed sad to see. On a positive note though, it might not be a bad case. Some people I've seen disappear have really just moved on to different fitness websites and/or Instagram and have been doing okay despite a struggle every now and then.7 -
I was one of the tar-pit people my last go-round in 2013. Lost 75# while being very active on MFP. Hit goal and dropped out of sight. ONE short year it took me to gain it all back.
So after losing 75# again (at one point it was 99#) I’m taking a very different approach including leaning in to you with more experience, and weighing every day - even if i don’t like what I see.
If anyone is reading this that is uncomfortable about being in the same situation. Please either post, or PM. It feels so nice to know that this group has your back!
I'll send you a friend request...
I've never been active on MFP, but having yoyoed quite a bit with my weight since the original loss, I've now figured that while I know how to lose weight, I'm not very good at all at maintenance. So trying a new approach of being more active in here to help me figure it out! Thanks for starting this post, it really can be very uncomfortable admitting regain.10 -
I was one of the tar-pit people my last go-round in 2013. Lost 75# while being very active on MFP. Hit goal and dropped out of sight. ONE short year it took me to gain it all back.
So after losing 75# again (at one point it was 99#) I’m taking a very different approach including leaning in to you with more experience, and weighing every day - even if i don’t like what I see.
If anyone is reading this that is uncomfortable about being in the same situation. Please either post, or PM. It feels so nice to know that this group has your back!
I haven't found myself in the same situation, but I carry that concern of it being just around the corner. That's why I don't dare stop weighing my food and logging. While I don't want anyone to have a hard time of it, I certainly appreciate people, like so many on this thread, posting about their experiences. It's a long and tough row to hoe and having people to commiserate with makes a world of difference.
Thanks for starting this thread. 13 -
I haven’t weighed myself but for the last 2 or so weeks I’ve eaten like crap and I’m now constantly bloated so today I’m restarting.
For some reason when I see my goal weight on the scales I relax with my food, I’m still exercising but eating more junk so I’ve given myself a kick up the backside and brought lots of veg and fruit and yoghurt today.
We will all get back on track!!!!7 -
RideLiftRun wrote: »I was one of the tar-pit people my last go-round in 2013. Lost 75# while being very active on MFP. Hit goal and dropped out of sight. ONE short year it took me to gain it all back.
So after losing 75# again (at one point it was 99#) I’m taking a very different approach including leaning in to you with more experience, and weighing every day - even if i don’t like what I see.
If anyone is reading this that is uncomfortable about being in the same situation. Please either post, or PM. It feels so nice to know that this group has your back!
I'll send you a friend request...
I've never been active on MFP, but having yoyoed quite a bit with my weight since the original loss, I've now figured that while I know how to lose weight, I'm not very good at all at maintenance. So trying a new approach of being more active in here to help me figure it out! Thanks for starting this post, it really can be very uncomfortable admitting regain.
@RideLiftRun if you are into such things, there’s a podcast called Half Size Me that focuses on maintenance. I like hearing stories of others who are in the same place.5 -
This is such a great thread! Thanks, @nowine4me for the podcast info. Going to try it today while at the gym. I am still fighting with that 2 lbs. over my range, i.e., 4 from the bottom of the range, and while that seems like a small amount, we all know it's a slippery slope. What usually works for me - and what I have NOT been doing, BTW, is not to count calories when I get "up", but to change behaviors. I know that if I cut out the carb at breakfast, and have no food after dinner, I am not only not hungry either time, but also lose the weight. So now I have to break those two habits ... and it's a struggle. I refuse to give up, tho. Too many positives have come of being 40 lbs. less ... a lot of medical improvements, along with other things. We all need to remind ourselves that when the going gets rough, we have the tools! For me, I just need to get them out of the toolbox and use them!5
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RideLiftRun wrote: »I was one of the tar-pit people my last go-round in 2013. Lost 75# while being very active on MFP. Hit goal and dropped out of sight. ONE short year it took me to gain it all back.
So after losing 75# again (at one point it was 99#) I’m taking a very different approach including leaning in to you with more experience, and weighing every day - even if i don’t like what I see.
If anyone is reading this that is uncomfortable about being in the same situation. Please either post, or PM. It feels so nice to know that this group has your back!
I'll send you a friend request...
I've never been active on MFP, but having yoyoed quite a bit with my weight since the original loss, I've now figured that while I know how to lose weight, I'm not very good at all at maintenance. So trying a new approach of being more active in here to help me figure it out! Thanks for starting this post, it really can be very uncomfortable admitting regain.
@RideLiftRun if you are into such things, there’s a podcast called Half Size Me that focuses on maintenance. I like hearing stories of others who are in the same place.
Great thanks, I'll check it out!1 -
I was one of the tar-pit people my last go-round in 2013. Lost 75# while being very active on MFP. Hit goal and dropped out of sight. ONE short year it took me to gain it all back.
So after losing 75# again (at one point it was 99#) I’m taking a very different approach including leaning in to you with more experience, and weighing every day - even if i don’t like what I see.
If anyone is reading this that is uncomfortable about being in the same situation. Please either post, or PM. It feels so nice to know that this group has your back!
I've been there. I lost about 80 pounds back in the early 2000's. I kept it off until about 2011 or so then gained it all back. Yeah, I had to hit scream weight too - I ballooned to 265 pounds.
Here's the take away - it's not hopeless. I wasn't doomed to stay fat. 265 pounds isn't my "setpoint" or the weight my body "wants" to stay. I simply stopped doing the things that had made me successful. I will tell you in skinny me v1.0 I did actually outrun a bad diet. I was running and cycling a lot of miles and could pretty much eat whatever I wanted. Problem is when i stopped exercising I didn't know how to eat - or monitor my caloric needs.
This time was different. I learned to log my intake and measure my needs. I monitor with daily weighing (works for me). I have returned to fitness and once again run/ride a lot of miles. What's different is I know how much to eat when I exercise and how much to eat when I don't. I'm more knowledgeable now - I've learned from past mistakes.
Good luck with your journey. You too are wiser now. Just get back to work - stinks to have to do it again but such is life.
Edit: I'm back to a normal BMI and have been in maintenance for about six months. I once again weigh what I did before. Success is possible.12 -
It I hit 150 I'd also scream, but my scream would be from happiness. That's my current goal weight. I'm 5'8". I didn't realize how fat that is still considered.0
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midlomel1971 wrote: »It I hit 150 I'd also scream, but my scream would be from happiness. That's my current goal weight. I'm 5'8". I didn't realize how fat that is still considered.
There's height to consider. IIRC, OP is less tall than you.4 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »midlomel1971 wrote: »It I hit 150 I'd also scream, but my scream would be from happiness. That's my current goal weight. I'm 5'8". I didn't realize how fat that is still considered.
There's height to consider. IIRC, OP is less tall than you.
Is less tall how we say short now, to spare the feelings of those of us who are vertically challenged?
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nutmegoreo wrote: »midlomel1971 wrote: »It I hit 150 I'd also scream, but my scream would be from happiness. That's my current goal weight. I'm 5'8". I didn't realize how fat that is still considered.
There's height to consider. IIRC, OP is less tall than you.
Is less tall how we say short now, to spare the feelings of those of us who are vertically challenged?
You and I are short. I didn't want to offend OP by lumping her in with the likes of us. :laugh:3
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