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You might not get a lot of serious responses in this forum (it's the fun and games forum), but at 5'4" and 109, it sounds like you don't have a lot left to lose.

Ditto... not looking to say "I told you so" either, but rather to encourage you to keep working towards your weight/fitness goals. There's a lot of good advice in this thread and some others around here about healthy calorie deficits, etc. Here's two posts you might want to read:…

My range is 179-183. And it does get easier - as you maintain for a while, and you find your weight naturally fluctuate, you'll learn to tell the difference between a natural fluctuation and actually putting weight back on.

Set your goals on MFP to maintain (i.e. don't lose any weight), log everything you eat, and aim for that calorie goal each day.

38, male, 6'4" Started at 211 pounds, January 2012. Ended at 177 pounds, September 2014. Goal range: 179-183 My strategy for losing: I set MFP to "lose 1 pound per week" to start with, and adjusted my macros to 45c/30f/25p. I kept my calories at that level until I got to 10 pounds of my goal weight, when I slowly began…

Glad that you found a method that works for you!

These are both awesome!

It's gonna be cold this weekend... which means it's finally good weather to start drinking stouts!

I never weighed any of my food in the first place. I measured some things out in the beginning just to figure out portion sizes, but I never weighed any of it.

There's nothing good or bad about eating cereal. In fact, I had a bowl of Special K Protein almost every day for breakfast as I dropped down to my goal weight. The bad thing about losing weight, though, is having to skip second breakfast. :\

Great work!

Just like StaciMarie said, increase your calorie input slowly - maybe 50 daily calories each week - until you've reached your maintenance level. And then see how that goes for you. It may turn out that what you thought was the right maintenance level was a little high or a little low. Make those small adjustments as…

I did the same. I added 100 daily calories each week until I was at my maintenance level. You might add 50 a week instead, if that makes you feel more comfortable. But I think you'll find after the first week or two of maintaining that it really does work. :)

That didn't take long...

I punched in your info here: http://www.fat2fittools.com/tools/bmr/ To maintain 135, at a light activity level, you would need to eat 1987 calories a day - pretty close to 2000. If I were in your shoes, I'd pick a calorie goal (maybe 1950, maybe 2000), log my food for a couple of weeks, and try to stay right at that…

This made me LOL. Seriously, though, you can lose weight with nothing but a calorie deficit. I mean, it's great to replace junk food with more healthy foods, but weight loss is calories in/calories out. And I'm instantly wary of any diet plan that includes the phrases "reset," "jump start," or "kick start."

Still a great song - probably one of my favorite 80's pop songs.

Same with tequila. Unfortunately, I had to learn that by experience.

Biscuits and sausage gravy is the best breakfast comfort food I can think of. Highly recommended for any visitor to the American South.

ISWYDT.

For me, it was as simple as seeing 211 on the scale. That was too much for me. I didn't have a lot to lose (I'm 6'4" and maintaining at 180 +/-), but seeing that number on the scale gave me the push I needed.

I have done the same. One other piece of advice I would offer is to set a goal range - maybe your goal weight +/- 2 or 3 pounds.

Well, I've met my weight goals and left MFP twice, and each time I ended up putting weight back on. So I'll be around as long as it takes for me to learn how to eat at a healthy caloric intake.

I weigh twice a week. Even so, I always weigh at the same time (namely, first thing in the morning after using the bathroom). I'm not really qualified to give you an answer as it relates to EDs. Hopefully the goal range helps. :smile:

Unracked weights.