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Then maintenance, the easy bit! For me it just feels like reaching that goal will be a huge weight off my shoulders, so to speak. I can increase my calories and live happily ever after, probably :p

I wish there was a crying react :’(

I knew someone was gonna say that :p But I don’t have a problem with maintaining. I find it much easier than both crash dieting (obviously) and sensible reasonable deficits. ^^’

For me personally I’d be very concerned that my competitiveness would lead me to unhealthy weightloss techniques for the sake of winning. But if you’re not concerned about that kinda thing then it seems like a cool way to motivate yourself. Then again, the general rule with betting is that you don’t bet what you can’t…

What’s your weight and height?

I did this starting at 140lbs, but I restricted heavily and unhealthily and absolutely wouldn’t recommend it. But as far as being physically possible.. yeah, it is.

I actually find depriving myself of it more effective than fitting it into my calories. It’s obviously a personal choice, I just find that my cravings go away after awhile of not eating it and eventually I just get to a point of not being that bothered about eating it. When I do treat myself now I always wonder what all…

If you burn more than you eat yes. So if you eat at maintenance and then exercise to create a deficit (assuming you don’t eat back the exercise calories) you will lose.

You have no business bringing her boss into this, that’s not concern that’s throwing her under the bus.

She said she can’t handle it, so your ‘should’ means absolutely nothing.

Assuming that your goal maintenance is lower that you current maintenance then yeah, you’ll lose, but I’m not sure you could get the whole there - I’ve lost 16lbs and my maintenance calories haven’t changed by any significant amount, so you’re likely to stop losing before your goal.

The thing is with slimming world and similar groups is that they don’t teach you how to continue weight loss outside of paying them money. By using ‘syns’ they fail to equip people with real knowledge of how weight loss occurs, meaning that at some point you’re probably gonna start failing and gaining weight. It’s all…

I reached 124 without exercise at all and 1,600 TDEE, but now I’m here I’m all flabby and wished I’d started strength training earlier, so that might be something you could start now, just 10-20 mins a day could be useful :)

You can do it! I started late last year at 140 and now I’m 124 and I feel great. All my clothes are falling off and I need a whole new wardrobe.. but still feels good ^.^

I Sorry, I did mean size charts. It’s actually not as bad as I thought, I guess my measurements have gone down, but for example - Next.co.uk sizing for tops says my bust is a size 14, my waist a size 12/14 and my hips a size 8. I know that most people aren’t gonna be perfectly proportational but you’ve gotta admit that’s…

Yeah the numbers are arbitrary, except I can’t shop online because I can never tell what size I’m gonna be. I do find that if I look at only my hip measurements it tends to be accurate but if I factor in bust or waist size then it expects me to be a lot heavier. It’s very weird :( Thanks though! x

I’m only 25 but I was thinking how much harder it is now than when I was a teen. But you know what, I don’t think it’s any harder, I just think I’ve gotten lazy. When I was younger I was out every day being active and walking everywhere because none of us ever had money for buses, and I still found time for 40 minutes of…

Great, thanks guys!

Thanks, I’ll check that out :)

Thanks for the advice. Well any/all online clothes measurement calculators tell me my waist should fit a size 16-18 and I’m actually a size 10, so for me, it’s proportionally wide.

.. Except that idk what recomp is! I’m assuming that’s eating at maintenance and building muscle?

That’s mostly the conclusion that I came to myself - because you can only lose fat at a deficit.. so I’d still need to lose that fat regardless of muscle building? So I could go down to 116 and then build muscle further and it wouldn’t matter then if my weight went up because it would be muscle gain and not fat - probably?

@amc110 Yes

5’4” 126lbs Bust 36 Waist 29.5 Hips 34 UK size 10 Idk what’s wrong with my measurements. My waist seems huge compared to other girls my height and whenever I use online clothes size calculators it tells me I should be a size 16/18 :/

I mean.. logging is an issue but really if you’re being super accurate with everything else I’m sure a minor over or under estimate for one meal shouldn’t throw you off too hard.

I would assume that what was evaporated would be mostly water. Edit: oh wait yeah that’d still affect the weight. Uhh how about use less sauce so you don’t need to wipe it off?

You could weigh the amount you take off and subtract that from the amount you put on originally? You could probably just do that a few times to get a feel for what percentage of the sauce you’re actually eating, then you should be making a relatively accurate guess in the future.

I’d consider it to be pretty rude if someone commented on another persons weight gain, so by that token I would also avoid commenting on someone’s loss. I guess people see it as a compliment but really it’s none of their business and you never know if the person is losing because they’re suffering from a physical or mental…

Absolutely! I don’t know any facts/science around it but I know that when I go back to maintenance my body is like EAT ALL THE FOOD PLEASE. I find it requires more self control to stay at maintenance calories than it does to stay at a deficit, but I think after a week or two of maintenance it sorts itself out.