Maintain or main 'taint?

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  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 6,031 Member

    @belindascott3010 the biggest thing I have learned since yo yo ing all my life is that maintenance is not somewhere you GET TO after losing and then turn it all loose. All it is gaining and losing the same 5 pounds or whatever your range is over longer time frames. And like @Jthanmyfitnesspal says you get to add some more calories. There are a lot of great posts stickied on this category and reading them helped me a lot. My choice to start maintenance was to add just 50-100 for a week or so and monitor and then keep slowly adding. Some folks jump right into a higher # but they are braver than me because the scale does bump up. You got this! Just stay aware and enjoy.

    Glad you got your vaxes Jthanmyftp! Smart. I still need to get my flu as I was not feeling well enough to get it at work last week but I am going to wait until my body seems normal and then get it. I don't usually have a reaction but even tho everyone says just get it, I chose to get it in another week or so.

  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,797 Member

    @belindascott3010 : The struggle is real!

    I started this thread in June 2023, having gotten to 170lbs. A year and a half later, I was 195. This January, I started losing it again and got below 175 by June. It was one of my hardest weight loss periods ever. I think it's because I am increasingly hypothyroid and, although treated with levothyroxine, my body will shut down whenever I'm sitting still (cold hands and feet)— even more so when I'm cutting calories! So, I'm sort of chasing my tail when I cut back.

    So, I feel exactly as you and I don't want to gain it back! My goal is to still be (on average) below 175 on January 1. This means not falling into bad habits, even while the weather gets cold and there seems a natural tendency to want to eat more.

    Good news: my weight spike from the weekend has been going away and I'm just below 175 today!

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 15,718 Member

    So true though: -→"my body will shut down whenever I'm sitting still (cold hands and feet)— even more so when I'm cutting calories!"

    In my case I have no test results that implicate thyroid. But it has always been true for me re circulation to the "edges", even as a teen.

    While there exists recently discovered health information that might partially explain some of this now, it is unknown how far back this may have been true.

  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,797 Member

    @PAV8888 : I'm glad it's not just me! Actually, I've never been one of those people who constantly says it's too hot indoors. I hate it when people blast the AC such that it's, for example, below 70F. What's with that? I ran the AC at 75F when sleeping this summer. I do get hot, but only when it's actually hot! And, within reason, I kind of like it!

  • rms62003
    rms62003 Posts: 256 Member

    I'm ALWAYS cold, and I just had my thyroid checked - it's normal. People actually recognize my sweaters at work and will bring it to me if I forget one somewhere!😛

    I'm fine with my house at 80 during the summer. Although, I do like it cold in the bedroom, I like snuggling under the blankets. So does my dog!

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 15,718 Member

    @Jthanmyfitnesspal and, sorry if not clear re the above post, for sure during deficits that are too large (or too long for current state, yada yada) the whole "cold at the extremities" thing hits me like a brick.

    Way before MFP and the current 10+ year streak of success, when method was "just do the most I can while eating the least I can to lose lose lose", at the tail end of a three or four month weight loss streak it got to the point where pinching the skin at the top of my hand would result in the skin remaining up! GP even written diagnosed "reynaud's"… the variety of reynaud's, it turns out, that "resolves" when the deficit disappears and regain takes place!

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