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:flowerforyou: HI thought I would share what I did about my flabby legs and baby pooch! I am same height and smallish frame and very happy at 155lbs, size 8 pants. I took to using 3lb and 5lb free weights for 20 mins of reps a couple times a week, along with reverse crunches and body weight resistance exercises- things I…

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Hi! I'm also at maintenance for almost a year. I have a fitbit and burn/eat 2000-2500 a day. Sent an add :smiley: )

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Maintenance has been an interesting journey in itself!! I am sitting about 7lbs below where I originally thought my maintenance number would be: low 160's was my guess weight. I continued to lose after starting maintenance while I figured out my true activity level with the help of my fitbit. Turns out I'm in a great…

Adding even 2 extra slices of lean lunch meat at lunch or choose the larger chicken breast at dinner will get you more of what's good for you. Plan in your snacks and you'll be there. This is the great part about maintenance, you direct your intake and feed your fitness and activity level. Best of luck to you, sent you an…

So hopefully you are switching from -.5/1750 deficit? And were you still losing the amount you were deficit until recently? An easy way to think about it is that you have 250 calories to add each day to start and figure out your maintenance range. Some days that's a slice of pizza, some days its a couple of beers or onion…

3500 accurately logged calories eaten is either burned or gained depending on your activity level, weight, age, sex, and general metabolic makeup. I do track daily but more keen on checking up on myself about every 7 days for in vs out totals. You're more likely have an idea where you're at if you're tracking your…

My husband and I are two weeks in for the second year in a row. Here goes weekend number 3 of 5!! Stay strong everyone!!

Congratulations, well done!! Add me if you like :) scoandmur

This is where you need to buckle down with your food tracking and get moving in new and different ways girl! Get a fitbit and track your activity- It can be as simple as Leslie Sansone videos, walking works!

Hi, @bkstein40 we are very similar in stature and age and weight! I am not worried any longer about my BMI or healthy weight range> they do not apply to my body, I look fantastic and no doubt you do as well. I'm at maintenance now for many months and I am very surprised to find that my shape has continued to progress down…

I'll send an add! I'm Marie C and my email is scoandmur@hotmail.com

I've been maintaining for 7 months with the help of my Fitbit. I'm now very dependant on it to monitor my intake vs calorie burns over the course of a week so that I don't gain or continue to lose for that matter. Initially on maintenance it was very "weird" to identify as a person who needed to eat more. As it turns out…

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Unless you were going to increase your activity during the week you're likely nearing the top end of your caloric zone now at 2200. Of course I am just guessing without knowing your height and current weight. Having said that I would probably just caution you to stick to a good macro ratio with your food choices- either by…

I originally set my GW to 165 (I'm 42 and 5'5.5") got there and readjusted to 160 then scooted down to 155 where I've been maintaining for 6 months. Although I'm very happy in my new smaller clothes I still have some belly fat and flab present so I'm ready to accept whatever the scale says over the next few months as I add…

Thanks for your honesty! I'm somewhere between final and long term according to your outcome and I'm happy with that. I enjoy the math of my eats/burns but although I'm not afraid to return to "checking myself" this (logging) will not be a forever and ever regimen for me (if I've gotten it right).

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Its a tie between home made lasagna with meat sauce, ceasar salad and garlic bread with cheese with Cannoli for dessert. OR pierogies and latka with fried onions, sour cream and baklava for dessert. UGH carb city...take me home.

I found when I got closer to, and finally switched to maintenance that I began taking higher protein and calorie packed snacks between meals more seriously. It was beneficial for me especially when paired with adding more activity and exercise to work on muscle building/toning. I did initially lose a couple more pounds…

I started off thinking now what? Eat more so I stop losing and hold my weight where it is? Eat the same and walk less to stay the same? Eat a little more and walk a little less to balance it out? I started out walking the same as I know there are other benefits to walking and up my calories a little, thinking this is cool,…

I have a couple of friends also using Misfit and it has incredibly high burns for activity. It likely projects your total burn for the day rather than the actual activity. For example a mfp friend says she burned 2588 today doing 90 minutes of leisurely swimming. Olympic qualifiers maybe....I did 20K steps at work and…

I feel like for all of the forum posts and blah blah I've seen and read...it's just another article to cover up how lazy people are at weighing and tracking their food and how grossly over-eggateraed they are logging their acitivity. VERY rarely they are doing it ALL correctly and still have an anomoly...at which point…

Salt and Vinegar Crispers and Malbec ...snack of champions!

You're inspiring others just by opening up- congratulations, you're really going to do amazing things for yourself and without realizing, for others with your openness and honesty. Applause :blush: Sent and add to everyone!

Have you adopted being more active or activity/weights to go along with your weight loss? If you have, keep at it and you will see it very soon now that the "fat" is gone. I've been at +/- my happy weight for about 3 months now (still over my recommended weight-which will never happen), and I have to tell you that my body…

Maybe you're preoccupied with the number of calories rather than the quality of the food you could be eating within your goal amount? My suggestion- the thing that really helped me with the calorie deficit, is to invest some time thinking of new ways to eat the things you love with less calories. Flavourful food that isn't…