support group for losing those last 10 lbs.

Hi ladies....

Well I've been a bit in limbo. I haven't weighed myself in a few weeks. I just don't want that number to affect me the way it does...so my goal this week is to continue to eat healthy, exercise and live a full life. I have many festivities this week..but I am not going to let it stop me from enjoying my bday ..

Im going to eventually get my body fat tested and go by how my clothes feel. I am not going to weigh myself for another few weeks.
Hang in there everyone and remember at the end of the day..if you have your health and people around you that love you...then does the number really matter?

this!!!! I have been eating at what MFP is calculating as my maint. for the past 2 weeks and feel "fat". I am coming up on TOM so i am sure that is part of the reason, and I am just plain bloated. I hate getting on the scale at this time because I am certain I have not been having a surplus at all!! In fact even at "maintenance" I am still at a defecit most days due to exercise!! I am staying away from the scale until after period and continue to try to hit my macros and focus on fat lose and muscle gain!!!

Question: Has anyone here ever tried Intermittent fasting? I've been reading about it and wanted to try it for a day to see what it was like (I don't think I've ever skipped a meal in my life). I fasted from 9pm on saturday night until 4:30pm on sunday (with daylights savings that was 20 1/2 hours. It was surprisingly not too bad, and it really put my awareness of what hunger actually feels like into perspective. I only drank black coffee, herbal tea or water until 4:30 and then ate a little snack and a healthy dinner. I'm thinking this might be the answer to what I've been looking for. I want to keep my fitness level up with running, but that's hard to do when I'm eating at a deficit, but I really want to focus on losing before I start training for my marathon in february (training starts then, marathon's not until june). With IF I can fast on my days off from running (1 or 2 days a week) and then eat maintenance calories on my training days for more energy.

I actually really liked how it made me feel. I was really focused and calm, and had a surprisingly high level of energy. I found that once I got over the initial feeling of hunger, it subsided pretty quickly with some water. My body temp (for me a good indicator of metabolism slowing down) was 98.6 at the end of fast which means it was pretty high - no starvation mode, haha.

My body feels very clean now and my run this morning was fantastic. Who knew?!

Question: Has anyone here ever tried Intermittent fasting? I've been reading about it and wanted to try it for a day to see what it was like (I don't think I've ever skipped a meal in my life). I fasted from 9pm on saturday night until 4:30pm on sunday (with daylights savings that was 20 1/2 hours. It was surprisingly not too bad, and it really put my awareness of what hunger actually feels like into perspective. I only drank black coffee, herbal tea or water until 4:30 and then ate a little snack and a healthy dinner. I'm thinking this might be the answer to what I've been looking for. I want to keep my fitness level up with running, but that's hard to do when I'm eating at a deficit, but I really want to focus on losing before I start training for my marathon in february (training starts then, marathon's not until june). With IF I can fast on my days off from running (1 or 2 days a week) and then eat maintenance calories on my training days for more energy.

I actually really liked how it made me feel. I was really focused and calm, and had a surprisingly high level of energy. I found that once I got over the initial feeling of hunger, it subsided pretty quickly with some water. My body temp (for me a good indicator of metabolism slowing down) was 98.6 at the end of fast which means it was pretty high - no starvation mode, haha.

My body feels very clean now and my run this morning was fantastic. Who knew?!

I have been 147 pounds since early September. Almost three weeks ago, I upped my calories to maintenance just to see if anything happened. Nope, still 147. While it is fantastic I can maintain this weight, I need to drop these last couple of pounds. I am giving myself a deadline of Thursday's weigh in for this group. If weight hasn't shifted by then, I am going back to a 0.5 lb/week calorie deficit. Who would have thought the last 2 pounds would be this difficult??

I am hoping all of you are having better luck than I am! :flowerforyou:

I've been just horrible keeping track of things the last week. I've been routinely above my calories, and not on good foods either. But this morning when I stepped on the scale I realized something... I may have finally learned how to manage my weight. My weight has bounced around up 10 pounds, down 5, up 15, etc every year since I graduated high school about 6 years ago, and in the end when I started losing weight last June I was about 40 pounds heavier than when I graduated.

I've lost most of that but it's been a reoccurring worry that whenever I stop or break from counting calories I'll go right back to gaining weight. This last week I have to admit I haven't counted anything. I've logged it all after I was done eating, but I neither planned nor cared about the nutrition facts. Going back through my log this week I realized that through all the up and down days of eating exactly what and how much I wanted I've actually eaten exactly the amount it would take to maintain my current weight, and stepping on the scale showed me the exact same number as a week ago as well.

I automatically assumed since I wasn't counting I would go up, but it feels great to know that even without reining myself in I can still do this. I'm going to give myself some leeway this month and not push to keep losing much since I have too much going on, but I will keep logging and aim to maintain at the least, maybe even lose an extra pound or two if possible. It's a good start to the middle of the week!