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I've been in maintenance since April 2016 and logged the whole time. It's like knowing my bank balance at any one time. I have had a few stressful times and I did QuickAdd after guesstimating food. And my weight went up when I was ill for two months, and I think my body was telling me I needed more reserves. One thing…

Name: Orphia Age: 53 Height: 176 cm Heaviest weight: 98.9 kg Total Weight lost: 35 kg Time it took to lose: 12 months How long in maintenance: Since April 2016 - but gained 10 kg March-May 2020 after massive trauma combined with COVID-19. Maintenance weight range: 65-75 kg (not sure what’s the right answer) Current moving…

Name: Orphia Age: 53 Height: 176 cm Heaviest weight: 98.9 kg Total Weight lost: 35 kg Time it took to lose: 12 months How long in maintenance: Since April 2016 - but gained 10 kg since March 2020 after massive trauma combined with COVID-19. Maintenance weight range: 65-75 kg (not sure what’s the right answer) Current…

Same here, except I switched from Fitbit to Garmin in 2017. Weight does what I think it should, going by the calories I know I eat. I eat back 100% of exercise calories, otherwise I'm creating an unsustainable deficit or goal. Yes, or have caloric awareness if your logging isn't spot on.

My weight goes up when my period starts, drops a little, then stays relatively higher for about half the cycle, then it whooshes back down. I'm not afraid to weigh. It's just data. If you don't weigh, you don't know these things. My weight went up nearly 4 kg this TOM. I will have some super-low-weight days to smooth out…

Name: Orphia Age: 53 Height: 176 cm Heaviest weight: 98.9 kg Total Weight lost: 35 kg Time it took to lose: 12 months How long in maintenance: Since April 2016 - but gained 10 kg since March 2020 after massive trauma combined with COVID-19. Maintenance weight range: 65-75 kg (not sure what’s the right answer) Current…

Name: Orphia Age: 53 Height: 176 cm Heaviest weight: 98.9 kg Total Weight lost: 35 kg Time it took to lose: 12 months How long in maintenance: Since April 2016 - but gained 10 kg since March 2020 after massive trauma combined with COVID-19. Maintenance weight range: 65-75 kg (not sure what’s the right answer) Current…

Mine is 3a. My secret weapon is a tiny bit of macadamia oil if my hair gets wiry/dry/frizzy.

Do you count avocado and pumpkin?

Could you clarify? If you don't count calories but you count carbs, does that mean you are counting the calories in vegetables like potatoes? You should be. They are high in calories.

I recommend seeing a doctor and getting blood tests. Then you'll know more and might get referred to assistance to help with nutrition and stress. With your workouts, don't overdo it, just do them to enjoy them. I know it's hard to adjust from what you were once capable of, but if you're exerting yourself too much, you'll…

98. Looks like to escape the fatigue of having done it all, I'll be taking up nude gardening, ferret racing, ironing on mountaintops, celebrity stalking, and a few other hobbies that'll occur to my sharp and wily old mind. :smiley:

I'm always hungrier after a workout/run. Either that day or the next. That's normal. If you're dieting and exercising you need to eat back your exercise calories. There are hundreds of threads about that, so you wouldn't be the first not to know. Are you bingeing every day?

Name: Orphia Age: 50 Height: 176 cm Heaviest weight: 98.9 kg Total Weight lost: 35 kg Time it took to lose: 12 months How long in maintenance: Since April 2016 - but gained 10 kg since March 2020 after massive trauma combined with COVID-19. Maintenance weight range: 65-75 kg (not sure what’s the right answer) Current…

I just noticed that if you lose 7 lb, you will be on the borderline between underweight and normal.

You did a lot of exercise. I find that I can be ravenously hungry after that, then it calms down the next day. If you were over today, to maintain, you can be under a bit for a day or two. No biggie. I'm worried you're not enjoying eating after your exercise. The point of logging? To have some control over your weight, and…

Thanks, @mtaratoot @figurethefat Maintenance is all about being over and under. Think of it as 5:2 intermittent fasting or something. Some days are higher, some are lower. That's good. Try not to think of an "over" day as a bad day. Over is good, if you have under, and you've proved you can do under.

HEAVIEST weight: 98.9 kg Total Weight lost: 35 kg Time it took to lose: 12 months How long in maintenance: Since April 2016 - but gained 10 kg since March 2020 due to recovery from massive traumas combined with COVID-19. :'( Maintenance weight range: 65-75 kg (not sure what’s the right answer but currently just trying to…

Fantastic, that's a wonderful effort.

Great to see you, Terri. x Yep, we started earlier than most. I started in 2016 while I was getting close to my maintenance weight. It's been wonderful seeing the world catch on and reuse/repurpose the things we all now share.

Hi, I'm back after a long absence in this thread. I'm so glad to see it's still going. I know people who are close to hoarders, but high-functioning. What would you recommend advising a collector of *collections* when their house is full but doesn’t make them happy? Not me! I'm functioning better than I was for a while,…

Thank you for reading and commenting! <3 @JasmijnRF

Mutual inspiration and support - that's us. And MFP, and all us fractals inside.

Wow, that's so heartwarming to me. I am deeply thankful to you.

I did my first headstand in 12 months. Not bad. https://youtu.be/Zqyi8h8kBdk

@TiisTitanium What's your focus/goal in 2020? x

Yep. I rarely find that cake is worth it. Too much air. When deciding if something is "worth it", when I was overweight, I had so much cognitive dissonance and guilt and bad feelings inside, that it was hard to separate one food decision from the many other issues going on. Yet another reason to work on one thing at a time…

The Maintenance section of Community is great for that. Everyone in there understands the struggle. After a while, you get used to the big emotional swings between having a "deficit" some days and "going over" some days. Have you tried just checking your weekly net kilojoules/calories every day or so?…

Hi @Athijade Feel free to lurk or comment as you wish! I got into this more by looking at the Volume Eating thread, in which people make meals a lot bigger by adding vegetables to them. It's a way of eating "more" but not adding many kilojoules/calories. Ooh, veggie pasta with roasted garlic hummus sauce. There's one for…

Hi, @jbeck0433 thanks for talking about this! Yes, it's just really cool to see ideas of foods, and how people use them together in different ways.