Hi everyone! I joined the thread a couple of weeks ago and then life caught up with me and I haven't been able to keep up with this thread. I want to try to do better about checking in here.

I'm in week 14 of my reset. To recap, I gained about 4 pounds the first few weeks and then held steady. It took until 8-10 weeks until I began to feel it was kicking in for me. At week 11, my weight trended back down about a pound. Then I changed my lifting routine and the changes caused me to hold onto another 2-3 pounds for 2 weeks. Now I'm back down to where I was week 11. The hunger has kicked back in the last week or two as well.

I'm going to keep eating at maintenance and reevaluate every few weeks or so but so far I'm happy with the way things are going so I think I'm going to keep at it for a while. It seemed like it took a long time to start seeing the effects of eating more, I'm okay with being patient a while longer.

Stay strong!

Wow, I am so impressed! When I heard Kiki did the reset for 3 months I was so shocked...then scared that maybe it would be the best route for me too! I just don't think I can do it, though. My plan is cut 10% at 8 weeks then back up to TDEE every 4 weeks and see how that goes.

Great work and dedication! Keep us posted on how its going!

I have the same plan as you, 8 weeks reset, cut 10% then every 4 weeks have one week at TDEE until I reach my goal.

Hi everyone! I joined the thread a couple of weeks ago and then life caught up with me and I haven't been able to keep up with this thread. I want to try to do better about checking in here.

I'm in week 14 of my reset. To recap, I gained about 4 pounds the first few weeks and then held steady. It took until 8-10 weeks until I began to feel it was kicking in for me. At week 11, my weight trended back down about a pound. Then I changed my lifting routine and the changes caused me to hold onto another 2-3 pounds for 2 weeks. Now I'm back down to where I was week 11. The hunger has kicked back in the last week or two as well.

I'm going to keep eating at maintenance and reevaluate every few weeks or so but so far I'm happy with the way things are going so I think I'm going to keep at it for a while. It seemed like it took a long time to start seeing the effects of eating more, I'm okay with being patient a while longer.

Stay strong!

Just curious.. why are you still at maintenance at 14 weeks? Are you trying to maintain and lose inches, or are you bulking then cutting. (Sorry, just insanely curious since Im struggling just to make it to 8 weeks!:))

No, certainly not trying to bulk! Trying to maintain and lose inches. Lucia and Kiki keep saying the magic happens at 8 weeks, maybe more for some. Well, they were right about everything I experienced so far, I decided to keep the faith. I did begin to feel different, but it took a long time to get there. It kind of feels like it’s been gaining in momentum in the last few weeks. I might feel very differently if I was back at the beginning with 40 pounds to lose again, I might be eager to cut and probably already would have done it. But I was only trying to maintain my weight to begin with. I don’t want to have to undereat the rest of my life to do that.

I see some stories where eating more results in changes within just a few weeks and they happily and successfully return to cutting. My experience is that it took much longer than a few weeks to begin to feel any different, I thought it might be helpful for some to see that. I can’t say that I haven’t been frustrated along the way or that I won’t ever try to do a cut. But if I can effect changes while eating at what should be maintenance, which it seems I finally am, I’m happy to stay here a while.

As always, thanks so much for your input. I do P90 (not X) and the strength session is 35 min of actual exercise and the cardio is about the 45 min. So, that's 2 hours 30 min. Because they are fairly short, I consider them to be light. Also, the cardio is only a bit tough in just one or two spots, but nothing terribly crazy and the strength sessions feel kind of easy to me at this point (we've been doing the highest level 3/4 for a few weeks now and I'm maxing out the 25lb adjustable freeweights I have)

I know that come fall when summer sessions are over and I'm back to my crazy fall schedule with 3 out of 5 days of late nights of teaching that I will be able to get in 3 maybe 4 workouts a week. I have a 45 min commute each way which only decreases my available time.

I guess when I look at how I'm gaining and that my exercising isn't what I had initially plugged in it only makes sense that I'm eating more than my actual tdee.

If you don't think it will ruin all my efforts thus far (just starting my 5th week today), I will bump down to the next activity level (which I believe is actually more accurate for me). Does that sound right?

Sounds about right. I think that it's important that you are eating for the right activity level and I don't think it will ruin your efforts so far...one small adjustment shouldn't cause you any major setback if it's the right adjustment to make.

Thanks for your confirmation that lowering my activity level (and consequently my TDEE) to what I believe is more accurate is the right thing to do! AND thanks for your reassurance that in doing so I am not sabotaging all my efforts over the first four weeks of this reset. It has been HARD to go through and I never want to have to do a full 8 weeks ever again. I've changed my goal to 1936 starting today and will keep my activity level as above.

All the EM2WL moderators are WONDERFUL!!!:flowerforyou:

Hey ladies, still feeling kinda blah about the whole thing and I'm itching to start cutting. I am so ready to start seeing results. This is my second go at a metabolism reset, would it be horrible to cut it off at 6 weeks? How long are yall planning to stick this out?

Does anyone else miss the feeling of losing weight? What i mean is i started this journey nearly 6 years ago so for nearly 6 years its been all about losing (which I have been successful at)....now suddenly im at a place where im just hoping to keep my gains at a minimum...mentally its very weird for me cos it feels like im not "accomplishing" - i realise resetting my metabolism will help me long term and this is all about healing (altho that said dont know that my metabolism has really suffered) and its very hard to not want to a week into the reset just go to a cut so i can get back to working towards my ultimate goal

@kazzsjourney, It's odd to me not having to starve and feel like I need to exercise harder and longer. I don't miss it a bit. Knowing I can eat a substantial amount of food, and only lift 2-3 times a week makes me feel like I'm not on a diet, just a normal life....

@rosied915, you're absolutely right, it is liberating! Fix the mind/body split and you're 80% there!

Does anyone else miss the feeling of losing weight? What i mean is i started this journey nearly 6 years ago so for nearly 6 years its been all about losing (which I have been successful at)....now suddenly im at a place where im just hoping to keep my gains at a minimum...mentally its very weird for me cos it feels like im not "accomplishing" - i realise resetting my metabolism will help me long term and this is all about healing (altho that said dont know that my metabolism has really suffered) and its very hard to not want to a week into the reset just go to a cut so i can get back to working towards my ultimate goal

YES YES YES!!!!! I'm so ready to start seeing results again!!!!!

So I added up the weeks with my weight basically the same, plus the weeks of near/at TDEE and CUT IS NEXT WEEK!

I am so excited.

I cannot wait to get to the 250's (and some bigger guns!)

Just popping in to say "hi" and marking where I have read up to. Hope everyone is doing well, nothing new to add for me, one week to go.
I am starting to look at what I am eating, trying to figure out where I will be able to cut out 300ish calories next week. I don't want to get rid of anything :laugh:
Got in a great leg workout yesterday. I am not as sore as I was last week, AND I upped about half of my weights from last week, so I am really happy with my progress!
Catch you all later!

^^This is funny to me, because I've also been looking at my diary and where I can cut out 400 calories. The answer is simple for me: the dark chocolate-covered acai/pomegranate berries, the white chocolate chip/cranberry trail mix, and the cup of milk at the end of the day! I am addicted to the chocolate-covered berries and this is a perfect segue into shelving them for the time being. I just want to make healthier substitutions, and the sweet stuff can GO. For now.

My lifting has also improved due to the increased calories. I've been concentrating on building my muscle throughout this month, so by golly, when cut time happens, these muscles better BURN, baby!

I've got 1 week and 4 days to go. My cut begins on July 9th.

Does anyone else miss the feeling of losing weight? What i mean is i started this journey nearly 6 years ago so for nearly 6 years its been all about losing (which I have been successful at)....now suddenly im at a place where im just hoping to keep my gains at a minimum...mentally its very weird for me cos it feels like im not "accomplishing" - i realise resetting my metabolism will help me long term and this is all about healing (altho that said dont know that my metabolism has really suffered) and its very hard to not want to a week into the reset just go to a cut so i can get back to working towards my ultimate goal

YES YES YES!!!!! I'm so ready to start seeing results again!!!!!

God yes! I have been ready ever since I got back on the weight loss path after my second was born.. then I was really looking forward to losses when I began running this Jan.. so to go 7 months now and have basically no results and working my butt off has been killing me. I am definitely ready for a cut!! its just not coming quick enough!