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I guess it could be age. It's been 5 years since I was last at a deficit. My activity level is always at sedentary because I log all my exercise with an apple watch (it used to be a fitbit). But I was a sedentary then and am now. I guess MFP could also have changed their algorithm. I've been in maintenance four years.

It's not hard. Guestimate to the best of your ability. As fiddletime said, watch your portion size. Have fun. Do lots of walking. I travel a lot and MY advice is to eat the house specialty first in a reasonable portion size. It is probably delicious and has a ton of calories. Then fill up with veg and soup and skip the…

Six months and it went away. It was kind of weird. I felt like there was physically less fat to fill the space and the cells and skin had to shrink. Like after you have a baby. But it went away, no prob and just walking for exercise.

When I did that I gained weight. When I set to sedentary and wrote fast walking down I did not. Your mileage may differ. It's an empirical question.

I must admit, I play the banjo and my apple watch counts those movements as if they were steps. But they're not. If I don't take it off, I eat too much and my weight creeps up. I'm sure performing burns something. But not as much as steps.

I did not. I had slowed a LOT on weight loss before dropping those last 5 pounds and hitting maintainence. I upped by 250/day when I did hit it. I never gained anything.

My husband does that too. It's quite impressive. His problem is caused by gluten sensitivity. Other people react to other things. It's not a real weight gain - it can't be. Go back to a more comfortable diet and your body will go back to being it's happy self.

Sure. This is for the rest of your life - you'll go nuts (or at least I would) if I couldn't have small snacks of things I wanted to.I am not into deprivation. Balance and portion size rules.

Maintain. It's challenging enough and you can always come back. Take a diet vacation and enjoy your success.

Gloria Vanderbelt. Great with curves. Nice colors. Come in tall.

We all have our own unique shape. Enjoy what you've got! Dress to work it. We're built how we're built and once we're at a good weight, we should just go for it. You keep trying to lose in one special spot and you'll lose somewhere else instead. Someone will love that on you.

I'm happy. I eat what I want. I'm not hungry. It's a bit harder in the winter, but that's because it's been too sloppy outside to exercise much. Four years of logging and still fine.

I gain a few pounds and lose it in the spring - did it every year for 40 years. It was because I was walking less in the cold and eating more. Log for a week or two and see if you have extra calories.

I added 250 extra a day. So I started by going from 1230 to 1480. Then I'd add exercise on top of that.

If you are maintaining without adding in the extra exercise then you don't need to. My exercise varies a lot so I used to set to sedentary and then log walks. Then I used a fitbit and now an apple watch.

Congratulations!

I think a lot of people are afraid. I was. It's been four years and I am still in the same 5 pound range I set for myself when I stopped losing. I'm 5'10. My goal was to stay in a 150-155 pound range. I celebrated when I hit 155 but stayed at a deficit until I got to 150. Those last 5 pounds took forever. Then I upped by…

Yep! When I lost weight I realized why my super skinny sons squat on their heels instead of on their bottoms. My dad had that same problem when he got very thin. Pillows are wonderful things.

I could do that at 25 too. I'm 58. I put all my weight on after 40. My maintenance is lower. I'll also say that my NET calories are low (1700), but I eat more because I get at least 300-500 calories a day by measuring my exercise.

I've been tracking everything for four years. It's a habit. I don't think much about it. I also hit the scale every morning. I rarely measure now and find it helpful. It tells me I need to eat more most of the time.

It took my as long to lose the last 5 pounds as it did to lose the first 25. But I just kept plugging away and it happened. Make sure you have adjusted your weight on MFP and recalculate your goal to get the proper calories. Make sure you have the right goal. I found it helpful to keep my carbs under 40% (that's not very…

Then you're supposed to add in your exercise calories and eat them back.

You should eat them back if you don't want to be in a deficit.

My body always settles between 150-155 (I'm 5'10"). It did when I was in college and stayed there for years. It did after both kids. It's where my body easily settled after I lost the 38 pounds I did. It likes to be here. If I go under, it pops up easily. If I go over, it pops down easily. This is who I am.

I hear you. I looked at that pound - then two - over my weight range for six months before deciding it was real. Lowered my calories back down by 250 and hit those. For me it was stress. And winter. But what's getting me back on it is realizing that I don't feel physically as well when I eat those things I was saying 'no'…

What are your macros like? In the winter, I tend to like carbs - they can creep up to 60% or more of my calories. I have to keep them below 50% to maintain easily and 40% to lose. If you've been very heavy, you're probably a little insulin resistant and you will be more prone to this than some other people. But unlike…

That didn't work for me. Because I'm tall my pants continued to fit just fine as gained 20 pounds. That was BEFORE MFP. My secret is I log everything and step on the scale every morning. When I get outside my 5 pound window, I drop 250 calories/day. That seems to happen every winter. In the spring, I pop it back up and I'm…

I'm sorry. It's the only way. You just have to learn to be consistent with something that works for you.

I call that life. I hit my weekly goals. Life is too short to be on a 'diet'. Enjoy.

You did well. I was over by 800 - and I'm very rarely over at all. My son was in the hospital, I didn't walk much, and we celebrated his coming home. I'm low today and the week will be just fine.