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My weight loss now is like.... 1.5/2lbs a month most of the time and I'm set at 2lbs a month. I am well within the middle of the healthy BMI range now though. Before that, and for most of my loss, I was set at 1lb a week and I lost... 0lbs 2 weeks a month, 2 pounds the week my period started, another 2 the week following…

My husband's smart watch decided, on a horse ride, to recalibrate his stride length to about four feet per step. That one took some undoing.

People aren't looking for answers in any real serious way. They're just looking to acknowledge they notice and are impressed, not hear the details, about 85% of the time. My go to answers range from a brief 'my fitness pal' to 'running from bears'. They're equally happy with either one. Which is amused, and moving onto the…

It's life. Happens to everyone. You're not going to lose anything enormous. Focus on family and getting better and get back to your routine when you can.

Yeah, this. I live three flights of stairs from the street (on a hill), my porch is another flight up and getting to my second story for the kitchen and bathroom is another full flight. I come in from the car and pee I've done five. Doesn't matter if it's objectively a lot or not. If it's more than you've been doing it's…

Yeah. You get the fat, you get moisture, and you get good flavor. The premade guac I made (which is not just avocado I know) is 40 calories for 2 tablespoons (I don't do weighing). It's healthy fat, it gets me TONS of flavor I don't have to do slicing and dicing for, and it still provides moisture and binding abilities. I…

I just use avocado or sometimes guac as a mayo sub in almost everything. Random sandwich, chicken salad, egg salad, tuna salad, whatever. Yeah avocado is high calorie but it isn't HUNDRED CALORIES A TABLESPOON HIGH CALORIE.

I am 5'5". I weigh 120 something pounds. I run about 25K a week and hike about the same every week. I lift weighs. I play sports. I paddleboard and kayak. I still have belly 'fat'. Because a-) There are organs in there. For me that includes a uterus that changes w ith monthly cycles. b-) We don't determine where the body…

So, weird one from someone who's at goal and new to maintaining: When I started, my calorie allotment didn't feel like much. Then I changed the biggest contributors to my former obesity, new habits became real habits and now it feels like a lot. Probably in part because my high weight calorie allotment to maintain and…

Gotta point out - these are myths the linked article DEBUNK, not a list of truths. This is a quote from the article: "Their lives aren’t easy, but on average they spend only about two to three hours a day doing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. It is neither normal nor necessary to be ultra-fit and ultra-strong."

I hate to point out the obvious but anything less than it takes to maintain your weight will result in loss eventually. Once i got to a point where my daily calorie allotment to lose .5 pounds a week I set my calories to maintain and made sure I ate between 1200 and that number. Once my weight dropped enough to narrow that…

This. I went through a stage where I felt like I'd lived in shapeless things and didn't want to hide behind clothes anymore, and it took me a little while to move past that but most of my wardrobe now has some 'flow' and it is still comfortable, accommodating and does not make me feel like I'm hiding anymore. And it's…

I'm going to second second hand/thrift stores and stretchy clothes. At 6lbs to go, I really doubt you'll drop an entire size but if you're at all between sizes now you could end up with a Situation.

This. The threshold for light active is fairly low, but it's still what... at least 4000-5000 steps a day, I think. Sedentary is still assuming you getting the mail, walking around your house or office, running errands, doing laundry, vacuuming your floors, and mowing a reasonable lawn here and there.

FTR: Sedentary vs lightly active when I check in my goals seems to be a difference of about 200 calories. That It isn't a whole heck of a lot. My actual day job is sitting on my butt working at a desk from home though so the short training sessions and short hike a day, and my current weight (128) that's probably just…

Lightly active every season but summer, active summer (because my frequency and duration of daily activity goes up a LOT). Still log the more purposeful exercise on top though which does increase the calories I eat.

Oh, the thing I did I forgot to mention as an option (sijomial reminded me) was to set my cals to current maintenance (and adjust that goal with the tab every 3-4 lbs or so) and just eat 'less than that'. Kept it easy, gave me flexibility and helped me get used to keeping a long view on calories while following my…

I think any of your options will work and I did a lot of maintenance breaks - But I really think the big thing you need to do, regardless of method, is pair it with the knowledge that a-) This is absolutely forever. There is no 'got to goal weight go back ' lingering at the back of your mind. That's dangerous and b-)…

Yeah, the really consistent stuff that's just life is just my activity level. I don't log every 15 minute agility or disc session with the dogs that happen 4-5 times a day, I don't log the fairly short (couple of mile) daily hikes with them or when I'm training a client's dog. They're the things that determine my activity…

I weigh myself in the morning after peeing - every morning the week my period starts, and the week following. The other 2 weeks I don't bother, because my weight is all over and up. As long as I'm somewhere within a 2-3 lb range I'm fine.

There is no way anyone who is human will be 100% consistent 100% of the time. If you can't deal with disruptions and changes, you're just going to fail. Maybe sooner, maybe later, maybe it's going to be into becoming a yoyo dieter-- but it's going to happen. Being able to get back to it quickly is probably THE most…

This is such a real thing. People started telling me I was getting too thin at... 150lbs. Which is, admittedly, the very top end of a healthy BMI for me, but they were acting like I was going to die of starvation.

^ This. Up your calories to maintenance (don't be surprised if you have a small initial jump from glycogen stores and amount of food in your belly) for a little bit. Maybe reverse diet up some, even. Then see if you want to go back to lose the rest.

I am not a precise logger; I'm not weighing food. Meaning when trying to use a small deficit my simple errors in measurement could erase the whole thing. My last 10 pounds (from 140-130) involved eating maintenance for my NORMAL activity level (lightly active) and letting my increased (due to summer, not crazy work outs)…

This is how I've worked. My goal weight has crept down some over time - ie: Multiple goals but always knew I'd have to see where I was/how I looked and felt and adjust, but ultimately weight is not static and my goal 'weight' is not going to be static either or I'm always going to be above or below it. I'm 130 right now.…

I weigh 130lbs. I started at 190. I rarely ate less than 1800 the entire time I was losing, though admittedly I was always pretty active. So not only is that likely accurate, it is likely accurate for you trying to lose 2 pounds a week or not being very heavy and/or you being older, inactive or short. Ie: No, that's not a…

I went about 2,000 calories a day over maintenance for 3 days in a row on vacation. I was, on vacation. I was more active but also did not care. I showed 2.5lbs heavier the day I got back -- and was back down to my starting weight in another 2 days. That's WITHOUT any deficit in my calorie allotment to take up some of…

I have a pretty healthy social life but: 1-) I do not do all of my socializing over food. Game nights, hiking, walking, horse rental trail rides, movies, etc. are part of it. 2-) even when food is included it is not always a MEAL - going out for coffee is a thing where you can skip the food, sometimes it's wine and I have…

Protein/fat/carbs and it is absolutely macro percentages, that many grams of those foods you'd probably die. Just do the guided set up and follow it. You don't need to remember anything.

Add me to zombie thread responders: Height: 5'5" Highest: Highest ever 195ish, 190 when I started MFP Lowest: 120 Current: 129 Goal: Eh, 125-130 is fine.