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Mmm. I hit goal and then transitioned to maintenance in September. December has been a tough month for me - lots of Christmas lunches, farewells, catch up lunches ... then there was a lot of eating on Christmas eve, Christmas Day and then Boxing Day plus lots of Christmas baking and snacks. I ate a lot over a few days -…

I bought clothes throughout - I dropped from an Australian size 18 down to a 16, 14, 12 and now I'm a 10. I bought from op shops (Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul etc) and also cheaper articles of clothing from Target, Kmart, Big W etc. I didn't buy anything new because I was dropping sizes. Now that I've stabilised and…

The calorie banking thing has become a pretty motivating reason for me to do exercise in the morning before work. I do a fairly energetic hour or so of Zumba every morning - using youtube haha. Combined with my default calorie budget, it gives me a pretty decent budget and I enter my breakfast and lunch (if I already know…

Haha! You summarised it absolutely perfectly. I note that like me you're getting 'disagree' (the artist formerly known as woo) hits but what you have said is accurate. The "Why?" post is always followed by: - are you weighing your food - are you eating more than you think you are - are you overcounting your exercise…

You're doing so well. Please don't feel disheartened - especially when from what I can see, you're pretty much at goal. Also for what it's worth, I've been in maintenance since September - with a goal weight of 54.6kg. Since then, I've fluctuated between 54.5 kg up to 56kg - going up and down, up and down .. Christmas will…

You are amazing <3 <3 <3 I think you always looked beautiful but honestly - the photos of your transformation are so inspiring. As for me: #1 86.6 kg (starting weight). #2 84.3 kg #3 78 kg #4 71.9 kg #5 68 kg #6 65.2 kg #7 60.5 kg #8 57.8 kg #9 57.7 kg #10 56.7 kg #11 28 September: 54.5kg (goal) #12 29 November / now:…

I'm sorry it was so hard for you. But as you say everyone is different. I don't think the analogy is quite right though - smoking is unequivocally bad for you. Heroin is bad for you. Food is not inherently good or bad. And I totally get that for some people the relationship to food is very complex and it is literally an…

I think we'll have to agree to disagree. As someone who loves food, I don't think it would have been sustainable for me to stick with 1200 calories during my weight loss phase. I needed to boost my calorie budget with exercise. Some people can lose weight on lowering calories alone but others might not be able to do that.…

I definitely let myself eat more if I exercise more .. I didn't realise it was considered unhealthy to "reward" yourself with food. In weight loss mode my calorie budget was 1200 and in maintenance it's now 1340. I frequently eat well over 2000 calories in a day - although I've never eaten more than 3000 calories in a day…

I've only been on MFP for a year but I've seen people having a go at someone for eating too much junk food/ too much processed food / too much sugar ... I get that it's bad to eat junk all the time but the first step is to even just log and that's a big deal for some people. By shaming people, you can make them lie / not…

I have to say, it's a bit disheartening to get a disagree/woo on a post where you are trying to encourage someone. Not sure what is being disagreed with - I gave a factual account of what happened to me. Whether the person agrees with me or not - it happened :#

It took me a while. Other people noticed it first - mostly in my face because for some reason my face seems to be the place where my weight loss shows up first. For me, I could feel that my clothes were getting looser and I could see the difference on the scales and I could see my measurements were shrinking, but it took…

I don't agree. I think vanity sizing is definitely a thing. Since losing weight, I've been buying dresses made by Cue (https://www.cue.cc/) . I wear a size 10. When I have bought second hand Cue dresses online from a while back, they don't fit - so the former Cue size 10 is now what a Cue size 6 or 8 is ...

Our 21st foster dog Esme continues to be very cute - and bemusing our resident dogs who are puzzled about why she's not a Kelpie.

Month four of maintenance and still maintaining. I am still logging diligently but have to say that the endless work Christmas parties are proving a bit of a strain simply because I find it a little harder to log accurately at such events. It sounds silly but first of all there's the pressure of having to maintain…

Our scales are in the bathroom so I weigh myself all the time, although only record in MFP once a week. I usually weigh myself before breakfast, after exercise. In the scheme of things, it doesn't really matter for me because fro whatever reason, my weight fluctuates during the week and tends to level out on the weekend...…

Probably because there are so many posts where as soon as people open up their diaries, people judge them. It's for that reason I would never, ever ever reveal my diary - even as someone who has lost 32kg, reached goal and is in maintenance... The process is painful enough and hard as it is...

Same - because I think exercise calories tend to be over-estimated. I notice people disagree with my approach but I can't see why. Living on 1200 calories would not be fun for me at all and I don't see anything unhealthy/inappropriate about boosting my budget with exercise.

I was aiming for 54kg and maintaining at that weight, but for the last three months I seem to have been hanging around the 54.5 - 55.5 kg mark, which is fine by me. If I wanted to drop down to 54 and maintain at 54, I think my 'diet face' would look even more gaunt than it does.

Eeek! No way. I'm a five foot female and my weight loss amount was 1200 and my maintenance amount is 1370. If i didn't use exercise to boost my daily calorie budget I would have been completely and utterly miserable and fallen off the wagon a long long time ago because my calorie budget is measly without exercise calories.…

I'm 46 and my face is definitely showing more lines that weren't there when I was chubbier. Around my mouth .. and while I don't have loose skin, the skin on my neck and also underside of my upper arm are a bit wrinkley. I wouldn't want to go back to being overweight again but my 'diet face' definitely does make me look…

I'm a five foot tall female. When I was in weight loss mode, my daily budget (without exercise) was 1200 calories. Now that I'm in maintenance (I have been for the last three months or so), my daily budget without exercise calories is 1370. I was also a bit shocked at first that it was so low. However, I do zumba (youtube…

Foster Dog #21 has arrived. We normally only foster Kelpies and other working dogs so she's sticking out like a sore thumb ...

I can't cope when I see "loose weight" typed when it's clearly not a typo ..

I tend to just move on. I don't beat myself up about it. Just draw a line in the sand and move on. I might exercise a bit harder the next day or eat a bit less, but overall - the next day is a new start. Now that I'm in maintenance, I've also discovered that the 'bad days' don't seem to affect the scales the way I would…

I was very upfront about it. Told them I was on a calorie controlled diet and couldn't eat unexpected food that I hadn't factored into my daily budget. Everyone has been very understanding. In fact these days they even ask whether it's ok to offer me food and I say yes I'm in maintenance so have more budget. I don't like…

Thanks so much. I found your post very thought-provoking and helpful - I've been thinking about it a lot and wanting to respond properly. I've essentially been in maintenance around three months now - the last few months of weight loss, I had deliberately slowed things down a lot to try to make transition easier and in the…

It's been an interesting activity. Weight has been maintained but as I've been keeping track of what I'm calling my 'weekly' deficit, because I don't tend to eat all my daily calories (because of my scepticism of the accuracy of calories burned), I am finding i have a fairly significant weekly deficit by Saturday. This…

I picked an indicative goal weight based on BMI. I'm female and 150cm (five feet) tall so it said healthy BMI was a range of 41.6 - 56kg. I picked 50kg as an indicative goal, just so that I had a starting point but agreed with my PT that when I hit 60kg, we'd discuss. My stating weight was 86.6 kg. As I approached 60kg, we…

I know it's frustrating and disheartening but please don't let it get you down. I have been going to the gym since January this year and can plank for 2.5 minutes now but still do push ups on my knees. Some people in the group can't do them at all and do them against the wall. I will never be able to do a chin up. We just…