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There is very little I truly gave up and miss - as in: If I'd really miss it, I didn't give it up so much as I greatly reduced quantity of frequency. The one thing I DO miss having a lot more frequently? ...Whole milk. I still drink dairy milk because the calories/protein ratio is pretty good but I used to drink like half…

During loss I ate between 2000 and 1500, depending on where I was in the process/how much I weighed at the time. I've been maintaining within a couple of pounds of 125lbs for about a year. I'm 5'5. My maintenance calories MOST of the year are about 2000 - if averaged over a week because I am just not that rigid; I have…

It isn't *more* acceptable at goal, but it's not unacceptable at goal or otherwise. In maintenance you lose the 'cushion' of a deficit but blowing up your calories for a day is never, at any stage, going to lead to you gaining signifigant weight. I know you mean 'doing that often' because yeah, that will lead to gain.…

I am a much more... lax person than many people on MFP. First of all I never used a food scale and my calories were never below about 1500ish (ish becuse I don't weigh ANYTHING and never did), in going from just shy of 200lbs to 125, where I've been for just about a year. Anyway for me maintenance at first (6 months?) was…

Before: After ( - maintaining for right at a year, now)

Like everyone else, my diet didn't change a whole lot in regards to WHAT - more a matter of 'how much' and 'how often'. The only two big changes I made were prioritizing protein (I was way low before) and switching to lower calorie condiment/sauce choices. I was adding a whole lot of calories (like a thousand a day with…

Two things: That at some point maintaining really does become very nearly automatic. I had some concern that what/how/how much I ate was going to always take up a lot of mental space. For me, it hasn't. There's still a need to check in and pay some attention, yes, both to my weight and what/how much I eat, but I don't…

Also a thing for me. I DO still have a lot of lose skin on my arms/stomach/thighs but the face/neck stuff looking too sharp/gaunt/wrinkled has faded a TON with time in maintenence. It's been about a year of maintaining for me and my face looks much better. Or I'm more used to it but I look more like me to me now.

I. I think your cause and effect is wrong on the Japan example. It's normal to say something bluntly because it's rare. It isn't rare because it's called out. It's rare because they have a very different diet and lifestyle culturally.

Because there must always be someone contrary: I run at 'crack of dawn' every morning. Not resistance training but somewhere between 5k and 5 miles, sometimes street, sometimes pretty challenging trail. I do 'accidental/incidental' IF. I've never eaten breakfast. Not as a child (epic battles wtih my parents at the table),…

If someone hired you to do it, they literally know their primary shortcoming - that they need someone else to point out what they're doing wrong because they don't see it. This is markedly different than aunt Sally taking the opportunity to tell someone their fat.

I lost about 80lbs. I didn't lose weight for recognition. I enjoyed a little praise/commentary the first time I saw people (wasn't seeing many for most of the lost) but it got old and embarrassing fast. I don't like comments on my body at all, though. Didn't when I was fat, don't now. Please just leave me alone.

Yep this is me. There's nowhere for a waist to be because my ribcage is almost on my pelvis and those bones aren't moving no matter how much I work my abs.

For what it's worth the last time I posted here I was about 40lbs heavier than I am now. I've now been maintaining for months and honestly? It hasn't been terribly hard. I took loss slow and changed things just a little at a time. At this point it's just life and my life and habits in it keep my eating/activity in check to…

I'm not into 'motivation' as a primary driver in anything. I just kind of make small changes I find reasonably easy and turn them into habits. I didn't decide 'wahoo, time to get healthy' and go out and start running 5k 5 days a week. I decided that I'd get up every morning, put on shoes and go outside. Then I decided I'd…

I could absolutely, easily, add 3,500 calories a day to my diet if I stopped giving a crap. My sedentary TDEE at my current weight and height is about `1400 calories. My energy expenditure with my current activity level is about 2500. Just stopping exercising throws an extra 1000 calorie surplus in there. I could EASILY…

I'm still around and still bouncing around 122-123 which is about where I intended to maintain and honestly where my activity/diet balance seems to just kind of fall and moving either direction seems, at least, to take a lot of work. That said my intentional exercise is falling off right now because my general activity is…

Definitely pay attention to all aspects of your life, including sleep since you mentioned that. Even now, after successful loss and months and months into maintenance if I am low on sleep/not sleeping well ALL I WANT TO DO IS EAT. Your body has two energy to restore energy: sleep.... or food.dd When I'm dragging, because…

I lift 3X a week and go for a morning run 5X/week of varying lengths between 3 and 5 miles. Most of my activity , however, is just recreational stuff. Hiking/sports/riding/etc. Even the runs are because I find them fun. The only 'I do this for health' I do is about an hour of weight training in a week. Don't love it. Find…

I think we have about every decade represented here (I'm in my 40s, and that's when I got fit. My mid/late 20s is when it started to go to heck and then kept going to heck until early 40s, and then cleaned it up again. Got into athletics WHILE obese/in my 40s). Honestly, I think the big key to all of this regardless of age…

It is for SURE not universal. I'm not sure anything related to psychology is. I, personally, am bad at moderation. That means it's either eat all the things, no craps given, or go down another bad path. I'm not even moderate about moderation - ie: see me being absolutely stubbornly rigid about it in my own life. All or…

Annnd that is why I'm so absolutely aggressive on being as lax as I can be with data while still getting results. Cups. Spoons. My pants size. Activity level vs exercise calories. I know me. I will go down a BAD path. Even with all my aggressive 'do as little as you can and get results your after' stuff that little hit of…

It took me a year to lose the first 50lbs, and another year to lose the next 30. It's not a thing you do fast and are done with. My life/eating now aren't much different than they were when I was losing. Settle in and take the time to get used to this new lifestyle and get habits really ingrained.

I... don't do exercise calories. Because my exercise is weird (hard to estimate, for me anyway, but consistent) I just loop it into my daily activity level. I'm not equally active every day but it averages out pretty well *for me*. Then accept the odd day I'm over or under due to variance. I do change my activity setting…

I'm pretty sure the reason it works is ultimately because prolonged deficit increases cortisol, along with messing with sleep, and hunger hormones. Bump the calories, get more, better, sleep and cortisol drops. Which leads to water weight that may have been hanging around going away.

I legitimately don't want people to talk about any physical aspect of my being that is not a style choice. 'Cool hair' (it's purple with a rainbow rn) or clothes? Cool. My Skills/abilities? Heck yes. Anything else? People do it, I'm polite, I know they mean well, and I don't think it's rude or anything, but I don't enjoy…

also one thing that causes scale fluctation that I rarely see is: Being a morning weigh in person, eating within your calories but later in the day. Then that food/more of that food is still IN YOU when you weigh in the next morning. That doesn't mean eating late at night made you fat, but it DOES add to scale weight. Also…

Just don't use me as your 'eat like a thin person'. I'm currently sitting at 122lbs at 5'5" If I'm out at a buffet or pot luck (or holiday dinner or even just a bimonthly date night) what I'm going to eat is not going to be appreciably different than it was when I weighed 200lbs. Ie: I'm eating what I want, it's an…

When I feel stuck (my weight never stayed the same long enough for a true plateau), I switch to a diet break, eat maintenance for about 2 weeks, deal with the temporary water gain and then go back to a deficit. I invariably lose weight (a lot of it no doubt water, but almost always below the weight I was stuck at) and…

I just go over and move on. That was MORE true in loss than while I'm maintaining because when I was losing that 500 calorie deficit gave me a bigger buffer before gain, but even now maintaining -- it takes a LOT to actually regain. The only thing I actively watch for is a pattern where it's happening more days than not.…