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LOL No problem, and good luck with your (and to us with our) journey!

That is such a great feeling and really shows what a bit of movement can do: congratulations!

Name: Charlotte Age: 56 Height: 5'11" (180cm) Maintenance range: 75kg (+/- 2.5 kg) Weight lost: 86kg to 80 kg (January-August 2012); 85 kg to 69 kg (October 2014 - March 2016); 88kg to present weight (May 2020 - now) maintained (i.e. was below 77.5 kg, and mostly below 75 kg) from February 2015-July 2017; was then put on a…

Thanks, but this is not a weightloss thread, but a maintenance thread. There is a difference!

Try the strong core plan at BodyFit by Amy. It's a one-month programme of workouts partly aimed at helping women rebuild their core after childbirth, but even as someone not in that situation (female but not post-partum) I found it really useful. https://bodyfitbyamy.com/product/4-week-strong-core-more/ (You can access the…

Will there be a December thread?

Last time I lost I was aiming for 75kg (as I am now), and then adjusted to 72kg, and then thought "I'll just see if I can get below 70kg," which I also did. However, what I did not then do was then to work out where I wanted to maintain and work out how to do it. My weight drifted up for a couple of years, and then shot up…

Potatoes are great, and I am another who eats them regularly, along with rice, pasta and bread. I need my carbs. I just track them as part of my calories. There are so many lovely ways of making potatoes.

Of coruse people with normal bmi can be unhealthy, and people with bmi higher or lower than the normal range can be healthy. That does not mean that bmi is BS. It's not an indicator of health. It is a statistical indicator of where your weight lies in comparison to your height. Because excess weight is often a contributory…

I think this is key. One of my challenges is having my response trigger at ca. 78 kg (getting towards the top of normal bmi for me) rather than 88 kg (right at the top of overweight bmi for me). I would also want triggers at the bottom of my healthy range, though these days I am not aiming for it and don't expect to get…

That is awesome! Keep this going: you can do it.

I programmed my own spread sheet to calculate bmi (this is easy proving hat you weigh in kg and can assume that your height is not changing), and pounds and stones/pounds from kg (useful for posts here on the forum), to plot my daily weigh-ins on a graph, to calculate my mean (average) weight over month to date and now…

I recently punched two new holes in my belt, thinking I would not need the second for a while. I am not using it normally yet, but this week I realised I had done my belt up to the new tightest hole. (It is 13 cm [just over 5 inches] from the belt notch I was often using in May to the one I am normally using now; 15 cm [6…

The question of macros is pretty individual. What matters for weight loss is eating in a calorie deficit. Adjusting macros (in my experience) tends to affect how you feel, mainly around energy and feeling satatiated. I have discovered that low carb does not work well for me: I need carbs to help my energy levels.

Hi @AnnPT77 , thanks for taking the time to comment. I row on a WaterRower, found some useful estimates of calories based on that, and used those to decide which of the entries in the mfp database I should choose. You are quite right of course about the calories, so I guess need to have another rethink. The display tells…

I feel your frustration, sister! Mine finally dropped this week. I hope yours does too.

Well done! Be careful not to lose it: mine started to slip off my finger, but luckily I found it very time it did that. In the end, I had to buy a smaller sleeper ring to keep it on. (We got married when I was well on my way to my highest weight. OUr rings are angraved so I don't really want to have it made smaller.)

It's working again now, I am glad to say. :smiley:

These two things. ^^^^ First, a hearty "Well done!" I have been following this thread as I was in a very similar situtaition. My ahah moment was realising that I was still clocking my rowing calories with the division between light and mderate that I used from the beginning, with 18 - 20 strokes/minute as light and >22…

I should say that I then spent a year out of my normal routines, which certainly didn't help the process!

I hope you are feeling better. It might not happen to you (I hope it doesn't), but I gained 2kg within weeks of starting Omeprazole. It was what tipped me out of maintenance and into gaining back all the weight I had lost. :(

I don't eat low carb and do eat full fat dairy (butter, yoghurt and cheese). I track what I eat and know that 1g of fat is a more than double the calories of 1g of carbs/protein. If you are stressed by tracking though, which I know you have said you are, you might not want to do this. I don't think you can generalise about…

Could you add 100-200 ml of juice (I use apple juice) to say 500 ml of water and drink that? Or the juice of one lemon? Then it's not pure water so might not act as a trigger.

Name: Charlotte Age: 56 Height: 5'11" (180cm) Maintenance range: 75kg (+/- 2.5 kg) Weight lost: 86kg to 80 kg (January-August 2012); 85 kg to 69 kg (October 2014 - March 2016); 88kg to present weight (May 2020 - now) maintained (i.e. was below 77.5 kg, and mostly below 75 kg) from February 2015-July 2017; was then put on a…

The scale showed 75.9 kg this morning! Mind you, that was after I had rowed 16km (working up to a half marathon next Saturday). I'll see what it says tomorrow on my rest day, but I was very pleased indeed to see that number beginning with 75. (Also, 75.9 kg is 11 stone 13 lbs, so properly below 12 stone. And that is a…

I find rowing (not too high intensity) better for my knees than jogging. I also walk, but I wear walking boots and try to avoid walking too far on hard surfaces such as roads. BodyFit by Amy has some useful workouts that are lighter on the knees too.

I am another daily weigh-in person. I track trends though: the average (=mean) over the month to date and now, as I have reached the top of my planned maintenance range, my rolling 7-day average.

This is an old thread, but the original post sums up how I feel just now, so I searched it out!

If you read through the forums you will find lots of people for whom the answer to this is yes. It is for me to some extent, in that I lost my first ca. 7kg several years ago by adjusting my diet. Having said that, I was a bit active anyway because I was walking 20 minutes on my way to work and another 20 minutes on my way…

I enjoy exercise but my unpredictable schedule means that I don't/can't exercise the same amount each day. I therefore set mfp to sedentary, log my exercise calories (when that bit of the website is working!) and eat the the calories used in exercise. If I did not do that I would be eating at an inappropriately high…