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How about this? Studies show that will power is a finite resource. So if you do anything you have to use willpower to MAKE yourself do, sooner or later it will fail. Always. This is a proven thing. And that we all agree it's harder to do, er, harder things than easier ones. So the EASIER you make weight loss, and the LESS…

Yeah the sort of feel of the synthetic can vary enormously. I'm in a thrifted drifit nike shirt right now and it is absolutely skin tight but it also flexes and moves with me in such a way that it's basically like being naked and designed to be breathable. If I'm going to sweat OR be cold OR get wet in any regard cotton is…

The way for YOU to desensitize from it. Since we don't know everyone, we don't know what does and does not work and just how bad things are. More than one therapist - actual professional I know - recommends taking a break from the scale when it becomes too influential and only slowly adding it back when some distance…

I don't do 'fast fashion', period. All of my clothes are either expensive natural materials that will last forever or from a thrift store. Best I can do with balancing conscience/comfort.

I'm a perfectly average height - 5'5" and with a short torso. A really short torso - and weigh 130ish pounds. ..sleeves are still too short on me.

Just plain old dairy milk (reduced fat/skimmed) packs a heck of a protein whallop, too. It's not chicken or anything but it's pretty good.

Mint Klondike bars are DEFINITELY one of the things I'll eat sensibly the rest of the day for! They're my favorite. But yeah, I knew going in I was not giving up the little pleasures in my life and one of those - not the only one but one of - is a 'treat' in the evening of some stripe. Most of the time for me that's an ice…

This, this, this. I work at a desk, at home. However, there are CONSISTENT daily parts of my life that move my activity level up. I live three flights of stairs from the street, another flight to my porch, and one more from living room to bathroom/kitchen in my house (and my desk is downstairs). I own 5 high energy herding…

I have gone from 190 pounds to 128 pounds. I have eaten a candy bar or ice cream every day - by fitting them into my calorie allowance. I have had zero issues fitting those in, nor have they sacrificed any major nutrition goals. Ie: I'm still hitting protein and eating plenty of healthy food just fine. I have also taken a…

Just using goal set up here and tracking my calories. No deliberately increased activity, no dietary restrictions, no nothing except weighing/measuring my food and counting my calories to stay at or around the level MFP told me to. 190 to 128.

This happens to me pretty regularly - both in active losing and now in fairly recent maintenanceish. My best guess is that breaking a prolonged deficit prompts my body to drop water weight because cortisol levels go down. Happened to me every time I went to a maintenance break or just ate too much.

My higher calorie 'breakfast' shake is 2 cups of 2% milk + 8 ounces of black coffee + serving of protein powder + PB fit serving. It's delicious and about 500 calories.

Yeaaaah, saying I get sucked into a carb cycle doesn't mean I don't eat a candy bar or (not-the-low-calorie) ice cream every. single. day. I'm fine thanks. My bigger 'trigger food' for overeating is peanut butter. The healthy variety that is still super high calorie but no added sugar or salt. I'll put down an entire jar…

I fall into a 'carb cycle' really, really easily. Meaning if I eat something relatively small and with minimal protein or fat, I promptly start on an energy/crash/eat cycle. And, yeah, also and as a separate thing if I eat breakfast something in my brain triggers and I just am starved all day. These are different…

I know lots of people who think carbs make you fat and that the earth is flat. Doesn't make is true.

5'5", 44 CW: 130 (average while clothed) GW: I dunno, 128. 130. My big resolution is just staying somewhere under 130 and not dropping below 125. I'm not feeling all that driven right now. The 1/2 a crap I have scrounged up for anything but dog events is going to getting enough protein and not gaining.

Gaining muscle is a SLOW process - you'd be lucky to getting a half pound a month. Actually being sore and timeline says water weight. And it will go when it goes and you have some time to heal basically. Don't sweat it. Do take rest days.

Yeah, and that's what my husband was trying to point out to me when he said I was chasing a number on the scale. What is losing 3-5lbs really going to change for me when I'm already within a healthy weight range? ...nothing. It's going to make 0 difference to my life, except maybe changing my numerical pants size which…

I'm a moderator by psychology, too and I'm not one of your disagreers. I had a 1000 calorie sandwich yesterday and regret 0 of it (60down and counting, and now at a 21ish BMI), but. Some people really, really have to abstain from things rather than just moderate their access to them. I'm hoping the disagrees are the result…

you would have to pay me actual cash, in large amounts, to make me play a 'game' where whether or not i get to eat is reliant upon me earning it . This seems... really dangerous in so many ways.

I think maybe you defined success and maintenance top rigidly. Yeah you're 5 lbs above your upper limit and that means act, but. I'm not sure the 'never doing the reducing diet again' is a reasonable expectation in life. I think, for me, maintenance IS just staying within a range of 10-15lbs, and when you go above it you…

I'm in a similar spot with similar numbers and. It's fine. I'm honestly just admitting to myself that no, I'm not really ready to eat less than I am for a fairly minor change in weight and probably no aesthetic or performance improvement. Recomp? Sure. Go even harder at exercise and eat less? I've gone about as far as I'm…

I switched to diet. It's 0 calorie and you'll take my caffeine free, diet coke out of my cold dead hands. That said a swap to diet can be a good halfway step to a lot of people, along with tea/coffee (which if you add 0 cal sweetner or nothing to) can be a decent substitute too.

We (agility people in general) frequently DO :wink: You get pretty good at memorization and what the patterns likely are after a while though.

Also produce is NOOOOOOOT cheap. I can buy 1 sweet potato or 2lbs of white rice for a dollar. The rice is a lot more food.

I think most of what I gained from not having a choice was a problem not clearing my plate even if I was stuffed to the gills, so there's that. I always liked raw vegetables. My mom preparing them via boiling them gray did not make me like them cooked, ever.

I mean, if you wanna talk weight fluctuations - I lose about 2 pounds a day. The same pound I gain between waking up in the morning and mid-afternoon. :P

This is also true. I was happy enough for them and was willing to inquire in some vague way or make happy noises if it felt appropriate but it was completely irrelevant to me. I was fat, I knew I was fat, I wanted to stop being fat but only in an abstract way which was separate from any desire to LOSE weight. Until I was…