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That I woke up this morning after 8 hours of solid sleep - no pain while I slept, no pain when I woke up, no reflux in the night. I'd long ago accepted those as 'normal'. They were there for nearly twenty years. They're not there anymore and it's amazing.

5'5", 44 CW: 125 UGW: 125-130 12-3: 125.5 12-10: 124.4 (this is where I was pre-thanksgiving) 12-17: 123. (excuse the hell out of me?)

I will go in public in whatever the heck I want, as long as I am physically covered by opaque fabric and that includes leggings with shirts that don't cover my butt and enormously oversized animal onesie pjs. I am definitely in the 'wear what you want and feel good in' camp. People aren't on earth to be decorative.

Have you reset your calorie goals since your initial loss? A loss of 50 pounds translates to 500 fewer calories needed to maintain your weight. So you will certainly have MUCH less deficit than you did. That said unless you're very sedentary I would expect 2300 to be a deficit for you, so the issue may well be in…

I would almost definitely have no hunger or cravings if I ate no carbs, to be honest. Mostly because I'd hate my diet, and lose my will to live. I don't doubt it can work but I like food so I'll just keep doing what got me from obese to 124lbs and that is... eating a balanced diet with variety and food I like in it.…

This forum needs a funny button. Both for people who are funny and the occasional 'you are vomiting so much propaganda and broscience you've come all the way around infuriating and back to funny again'.

Definitely look into a way to keep control of this - and I'm not saying it's easy, but. Fun personal story time. My husband said for years he'd lose weight when I treated him like a pet and fed him the proper amount. Excuse the crap out of me? He thought he was being funny, I wanted to throttle him for it. He's a grown…

In absolute fairness, I clearly do not hate time and tru or cheap jeans. I guess clearly anyway? Because I own them. I actually own mostly them, in an enormous variety of sizes.

Oh what the hell even. This crap was already hard, I am never going to keep that one straight.

I can't be arsed to make a separate thread, but. The size 9 longs (lighter pair) are rigid, unforgiving, denim and about 20 years old. The other pair is a new pair of walmart jeans (I needed a pair in a rush) are size 6. Not only are they crappy quality that will stretch out, they're TOO BIG. THEY ARE ACTUALLY BIGGER THAN…

10 days is effectively no time at all. If you haven't lost in 6 weeks or so come back to trouble shoot, but the likely answers will always be that either you're logging inaccurately, overestimating your activity level (or exercise burn), or you need to see a doctor. Those are, really, the only options if you are OVERWEIGHT…

5'5", 44 CW: 125 UGW: 125-130 12-3: 125.5 12-10: 124.4 (this is where I was pre-thanksgiving) Good.

Oh, reading the rest of the thread. I wasn't eating at goal maintenance. I mean maintenance for whatever my weight was, then. I also redid my goals every pound, instead of several, so I never 'lost' more than 10 calories at a time. Super easy and less painful. Also oh heck yeah having a deficit got harder as I went. That…

It was me! I did give myself a 1200 minimum because I didn't want to get too ridiculous with it. The odd day I wasn't feeling well, okay, but in general 1200-maintenance calories. It worked super well for me, and I think it might help OP here. I think the flexibility let me learn to follow hunger cues better, since…

I made a deal with myself before I even started trying to lose weight - If I was out of calories and REALLY, sincerely, ACTUALLY, hungry - even if that was because I blew my calories on some indulgence earlier in the day - then I would eat. I just had to eat something that was GOOD for me and relative low calorie, rather…

Keep the fries. I want tater tots.

Uh, I don't track closely and I've never used a kitchen scale (beyond baking) consistently. Maybe 3 times in 18 months. No one gave me grief because I NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH LOSS. If you are not losing, counting accuracy will probably at least HELP you find answers - and even if this IS the issue you're going to need…

Honestly, this is mostly a matter of preference and lifestyle. If it's fitting right it's pretty danged easy/comfortable. If you're a person who is habitually used to eating frequently, or actually hungry often, less. When I do OMAD it's because it's what I slip into naturally. Is it forever? No, because I'm not rigid, but…

^ This, exactly, and it is a major thing. If you weigh in, in the morning as most people do, then how much food is left in your system (water retention, glycogen, food digesting) is going to affect your weight. How much food is still in you is going to be different if you last ate 8 hours ago (right before bed) or 12-14…

A tall is 12 ounces. Venti is 24. Just enter 2 servings of a tall.

My solution to late night snacking was, and continues to be 'leave 300-400 calories for the end of the day'. I eat it most of the time. If, for whatever reason, I *don't* eat those snacks, I just keep track and eat them on the weekend so I don't leave my body at too sharp a deficit (or for me any deficit).

I did OMAD for a while because it worked for me and I enjoyed it. I also ate about 1800 calories a day while losing. If I ate 1250 NOW I'd be miserable and drop weight too fast and I now weigh 125lbs (and I'm 5'5, so I'm well past a need to lose weight). Don't do that. Doing the same thing you did last time is going to…

I think whether you look differently mostly depends on how much weight you lost and how you, individually, lose weight. There is definitely a very general 'not well' look when people are really sick, but frankly I looked ILL for a while and I wasn't super obese (barely into obese per BMI) when I started and my fastest lost…

What Ann said. Eat to maintain right now. I broke my ankle in July - thought it was a bad sprain, it was a bad sprain and a break. Your body needs calories to heal, and you will make it much harder on yourself than you need to if you eat at a deficit while trying to heal. PS: Even at the number to maintain, I was short…

I. I don't think there is ONE thing that would do all of that. I guess I'd pick rowing, but. That's a big ask for ONE exercise.

5'5", 44 CW: 125 UGW: 125-130 December Goal: End December within my goal range. Carry on with the lifting/recomp stuff. Survive the holidays. 12-3: 125.5

Most people here will tell you to weigh and log. Alternately estimate based on what they say the serving size is - ie: .10 or .25 or whatever. I opted to stop taking a bite or two out of things. If I'm eating it, I'm eating it. Standing around grazing with a bite of this or that while cooking had to stop. If I slip now and…

This brings up an interesting thing I've noticed in myself. I still eat some kind of dessert/traditional 'sweet treat' almost every day. Never stopped. Don't find them too sweet or anything. They're still as delicious as they ever were. Yet I find I like a whole lot of foods now I use to REALLY not like when I was obese --…

I ate about 5,000 calories a day for 3-4 days while I was vacationing. It took me probably 10 days for the water weight to drop. I thought briefly I might have gained a pound or two but no, just took a few more days for it to finish coming off. No big deal. (Also right now I'm post 'thanksgiving dinner X 2 and anniversary…

In the interest of fairness I AM an all or nothing, I am first or I lost, go big or go home, kind of obsessive person. That's WHY I never 'focused' on weight loss or fitness. I had to work harder to keep myself from treating it like a hobby/obsession than I did to just make small changes. I KNOW me. If I had focused on…