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Thank you everyone!
@MadisonMolly2017 You hit the nail on the head - I can tell my old "diet self" is wanting to take over and get my spreadsheet updated, and get calories down to the exact precise number. So I am going to go with the 1611 and adjust as needed. I need to be adjustable and adaptable. As always you have great advice.
@ideas2 I really like that idea of setting it to maintenance now and learning to stay in that calorie range. I also like the idea that it helps you mentally that you don't have to change your goals - I don't know about you, but if I go over on my goals it will give me added stress so I am already a fan of this idea! My 1611 number is my maintenance calorie number, but I told MFP I want to lose 1.5 pounds a week. I am going to keep it like this and see how it works and adjust as needed.
@snowshoe072 I love what you said "Remember not to stress too much as that can be counter-productive as someone once said here don’t deprive yourself you still need to live." I might be stressing over and making things too complicated (I have been accused of such things lol) if I should be in weight loss or maintenance mode. I should just track, exercise, and adjust when needed as life changes. That is two cents of great wisdom.
Thank you everyone for your responses. This is why I think the UAC is the best group on MFP!5 -
How do you switch from weight loss to maintenance on the app?🧐1
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@ideas2 you really have a wonderful post there. worth repeating! So much of this "thing" is psychological and I am actually doing the same as you. So if I NEED to I can eat up to maintenance level but seeing how I want to drop a little fluff this month I am a success if I am 500 below and I am a success if I am 200 below. I am a success if I am at maintainance level. It is such a freeing method that it ought to be in the handbook here on MFP.I have my official calorie goal set to my maintenance level (which is why staying under my calories is the least difficult of the three things I track for UAC,) but I let myself eat below this on as many days as I want to in order to lose weight. I do really want to lose weight so on many days I am at least 500 calories below my official goal, and have managed to lose more than 50 pounds in this way.
It works well for me psychologically and my expectation is that I will never increase my official goal, but as I get closer to the weight I want I will be less motivated to eat as far under or may reduce my maintenance level if I decide it would be healthier for me. For me, this seems to be most in keeping with my desire to make this a lifestyle, not a diet.2 -
How do you switch from weight loss to maintenance on the app?🧐
I think you can do it in the weekly goal section on the app? Settings>My goals>Weekly Goal???
I did it on the desktop under Settings>Update Diet/Fitness Profile>What is your goal. Now be warned that if you adjust that, it recalculates calories and exercise numbers.1 -
How do you switch from weight loss to maintenance on the app?🧐
You can go to goals and change your goal from "lose xlb per week" to lose nothing, or you can manually enter a calorie goal, which is what I did. By the time I reached my goal weight (after losing over 22 kg in 9 months) I knew roughly what my maintenance calories should be. Actually, what I aim to do is to drift down by a pound or so when I have a quiet few weeks at home so that I can enjoy a holiday without stressing over calories.2 -
Thank you everyone for helping. Definitely something to think about when I talk to my dietitian.3
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Just a bit of musing ... in the 3 days of being back on track since my weeks long off-track time, the weight has been coming off very gratifyingly. For a few months there, it had not been. That makes me wonder if ~148 pounds really is just my body's set point now and it's going to be too hard to get below it. I did make it down to ~146 in Oct/Nov but quickly gained it back and have not been able to get back down again and it's been really frustrating me and I've been trying all kinds of things. After my indulgences, I was up to 153.5 on Monday, but this morning I am back down to 151.5, which is a very fast weight loss for me. I am very interested to see how quickly I get back to 148 and whether I can keep losing once I get there or if I stall out again. If I stall out again I think I am going to accept that that's my maintenance number and set a range around there and just try to stay there. I really wanted to get back to the 130-135 range being my maintenance number, like it was when I was 11 years younger, pre-pregnancy - trying to accept that you can only control so much. Maddy @MadisonMolly2017 pointed out to me that 148 is in the healthy BMI range and so there really isn't any benefit of going below that other than my own vanity.
Or maybe I won't stall out at 148 - maybe this little break of indulgence is just what I needed to break the plateau. I am curious to see!4 -
@Caroline_slowandsteady -that’s great. I hope you can figure it out soon. My body was stuck between 171-173 for like over a year…was so happy to get into the 160s again…2
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@Caroline_slowandsteady
If I didn’t mention, I meant to.
If you do decide to maintain 148, you may find after doing that for awhile that you want to lose more. It’s not a race
What would your maintenance range be?
After getting to the point where maintaining in that range is easy, then you could some for losing 3lbs strategies…or 5lbs. Slow, very small deficit.
Right now I’m working to get back into my 155-160 range.
Then I’m going to work to make that “easy”
THEN I’ll decide whether to lose more or not!
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@Caroline_slowandsteady i know if have been there before I to hung out in the 170’s for what felt like forever now I fluctuate between 160 and the upper 150’s if I could just get to the low 150’s I think I would consider it a good place to stop and then the word I dislike so much “maintain” don’t give up its a lifestyle change NOT a diet,3
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@bookieNJ , @MadisonMolly2017, @snowshoe072 thanks so much for your insight.
I think my current plan is to aim for 1650 calories a day for the forseeable future. I am not hungry at that number of calories if I make good food choices, so it feels pretty sustainable. If I keep losing weight at that, great. If I stall out at 148 again, also OK. I am not going to go below 1650, but I am also not going to give up on tracking.
My pre-pregnancy weight was 135, and as I wrote about in the May 6 post just now, a big part of my original motivation was "getting my body back." Which is a cliche and stupid, but also I really felt like my body was not my own, which is a weird and uncomfortable feeling. I do think losing some weight and the exercise I have done that makes me able to feel like my body is steady and capable are getting me back in that direction. And that ultimately I need to accept that this is my body now - I can't get my 32 year old body back at 42, even regardless of the 3 pregnancies, IVF treatments, GI issues, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis I experienced along the way. Just need to make my current body work as well for me as it can.2 -
Happy Mother’s Day 💐4
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Happy Mother's Day to all the strong, beautiful mothers that form our lovely group!4
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Sorry I've been MIA. A couple days after we returned from our vacation to NC, I began to have a hemmorage in my left eye. First eye doc thought it was a detached retina, but the retina specialist says it's not detached, but that there is an area that is bleeding into my eye. The blood looks like very dark black "floaties" and my vision is EXTREMELY blurry in that eye due to the dissipation of the blood. It's very difficult to see out of that eye because there's so much going on I there! (Tons of black floaties AND milky, blurriness throughout 90% of the center of the eye). Been trying to rest and sleep whenever possible, but I can't lay around and let hubby do all the packing and moving! So I do what I can, then go lie down. Lol.
Doc says it should stop bleeding on its own, and the milkiness/blurriness should disappear shortly after that. He wants to see me again in a week.
When I get up and get to moving around, there is more bleeding, so I'm trying hard to take it easy! (NOT easy to do!)10 -
@Mrs_Hoffer Hope your eye gets better soon! 🙏🙏🙏1
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Having read the previous posts, these are my thoughts on my personal journey.
🔹 The lifestyle I chose to get to maintenance was a process of developing healthy habits which were permanently sustainable.
🔹 I am not ‘on a diet’, it’s my new way of life. If I go back to my old habits, I will lose all the progress I have made.
🔹 Thus, I make daily choices to continue to track, eat mostly healthy, and exercise.
🔹 I also accept that I am not perfect, and will make daft choices from time to time, but I won’t beat myself up about them.3 -
Thinking of you Teresa and hope this heals up quickly for you. Such a stressful and busy time for something like this to happen — but you must and are taking care of yourself. 💛 @Mrs_Hoffer0
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@Mrs_Hoffer
I think I would find an eye issue like that to shoot my anxiety through the roof. I am praying for you.0 -
@Mrs_Hoffer , what a horrible thing to happen and at the worst time. Try to rest and heal yourself.1
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Well, I'm packed and ready to go, but the day will be a long tedious one of travelling and waiting. I don't know about the rest of the world but here in the UK our airports are experiencing long queues. A combination of staff shortages (laid off during the pandemic), increased security and other measures, plus large numbers of people wanting to get away now that all restrictions have been lifted.
We're currently (10 am) waiting for a taxi to take us to a coach stop, then we will be waiting for the coach. It's just over an hour to the airport so we will be there before 12.30. Our flight doesn't leave until 17.30 so we have plenty of time to get through the check-in and security measures. But more waiting. I have packed some sensible snacks but will be buying a sandwich for lunch.
We won't be at out final destination until after midnight. A long day!
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