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Truly great thread thank you all so much! I've been maintaining within a 5/6 pound bandwidth for over a year, but am sticky in the up and down the bandwidth restriction /binge cycle and recently gained 16 pounds from my lowest weight which I was horrified with. Currently lost 9 of those and working back down again! So much…
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Also struggle with the range in maintenance too... Find I just want to always be at the lowest number and have considered loosing another 5 pounds so that I always would be at that or lower...however I know I would *still* want to be at the new lowest number! Its just hard to see the scales go up and down and not feel…
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It depends how much it will knock you to come back and find out the scale gives out a much higher number, I did a weeks in Italy and came back 10 pounds heavier!! After a week of normal eating it was 2 pounds which seemed about right and its taken me another 3 weeks to loose that because I'm not very good at deficit these…
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I suffer from the same after blow outs, for me my digestion gets VERY upset over too much sugar and booze, I then get low level constipation and high water retention (up to 8 pounds worth) which sometimes takes me weeks to shift. I've started taking digestive enzymes and acidophilus tablets and it seems to keep digestion…
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Mine was 300 cals per day too low, I changed to "active" which I'm not sure reading the description I actually am...but that's spot on, I've been recording cals (net after taking out exercise cals) for about 4 months now and sure enough if I stay at Active Maintain I do, if I go 4000 cals over I'm up a pound and vice…
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Hi I'm new to posting although been on MFP for a year now! I am loving the Maintaining threads, many wise words that are helping me get my head around it all! Does anyone else fins that after so long feeling good for hitting calorie deficit and seeing those scales.go down that its mighty hard to eat to maintenance and see…
