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I gain on high refined carbs controlling for calories. Water is part of it. It also just ups my fat deposition because of insulin spikes.

If you're logging accurately, you aren't eating even close to what you should be for calories. You probably aren't losing because you're so thin you really can't. When I was your age, height, and weight, my ballet teachers told me I was too thin. And you know what they are about weight. If you're hungry, eat more. See what…

If you're not hungry, you need to think of food as a medical necessity and plan accordingly. You've gotten some good advice. Make a plan. What you're doing now will make you much sicker than ADHD.

I get hungry when (1) my carbs are over 40% of my calories and (2) when it gets cold. You burn more when you're cold. Fat (nuts, for example) and protein seem to help that a lot. When I have too many refined carbs (40% isn't even close to low), my blood sugar tends to spike and I get really hungry. If you've lost that much…

What made me hungrier at the beginning of maintenance was eating too many refined carbs. And every time I get hungry and start going over calories it's the same thing.

I've been maintaining several years. It has been pretty straightforward. My biggest struggle is trusting my body when it's cold to tell me I really AM hungry because I'm really burning a lot more calories than normal, even though my exercise doesn't register it. And to trust my log when it tells me I really HAVEN'T eaten…

Good stuff.

I pick the foods I really want to eat because they're special and build the rest of my eating around that. I also STOP eating when I'm not hungry. So after that nice glass of eggnog, I'm probably not really that hungry for the 3rd cookie and should grab some veg. At long munchie events I also bring or go for foods I can…

I'm over 50, lost 40 pounds, and all my jigglies and looser skin disappeared after 5 months or so. Breast firmed up too. I just walked. So I have no doubt more serious exercise would do you even better. Good luck!

I eat more slowly and consciously alone than with my family. I set the table. I sit down. I enjoy what I'm eating and listen to music or read. I savor it. When I'm with my family I chat and shove food into my mouth too fast.

I have felt a lot colder since I lost weight (4 years ago). Back to as cold as I felt when I was young and thin. I take a bath every night, I consciously relax my muscles. I swear slippers or socks. I have a warm computer on my lap :)

100 calories per week is 100/7 calories per day. You must have the most sensitive body in the world. Maybe I'm just fussy about grammar. Every week you upped 100 calories/day. So week 1 was 1400. Week 2 1500. Week 3 1600 . . . .

NO, 100 a week? That's almost unmeasureable. A hundred calories extra a DAY for a week. Standard 1 pound a week loss is a 500 calorie/day deficit. If you are at weight and want to stop losing, you add 100 calories a DAY for a week and see where you are. Keep that up (until you got to a 0 calorie deficit) and that is your…

My son is on a medication he desperately needs that suppresses his appetite. (The one before made him hungry all the time.) He eats calorie DENSE food. So if you're not going to eat a lot, drink things like a milk shake or smoothie with peanut butter and oatmeal in it. Just make it up in the morning and keep sipping it all…

I feel mine. I see my lower ones when I'm at the bottom of my swings - and I am not too thin (5'10", 146 at lowest). My husband is overweight but his fat gets deposited in his lower belly and you can see his ribs.

In theory, definitely not. They even did some studies of this. But it does for me. If I don't eat breakfast I over eat at dinner. I don't feel good and it seems it takes longer until I'm satisfied so I either have to stop myself before I'm full or I eat to much. Pooh. So I just eat breakfast. Your body may work…

It's just a habit to me. I eat. I log. It helps to do it on a cell phone. If I wait, it makes it harder. I've had times when I log meticulously and times when I just log. But it does help me keep on track. I also weigh myself every morning after I go to the bathroom. It just keeps things on track.

I'm so sorry you're going through this. Have your therapists also given you good sitting exercises to help improve your circulatory health?

Hit your calories and you should do fine. My body wants to gain weight if I have over 40% of my calories from carbs. It has never complained about fat or protein. Too much fat and it can be hard on your heart and circulatory system. Too much protein can be tough on your kidneys. You want some reasonable balance. Why did…

I kept off at a pound a week until I hit my goal, then dropped to 1/2 pound when I hit maintenance until I was sure it would stick. BTW, even though my calories were there, my body wasn't. It took me as much time to drop the first 35 pounds as the last 5, even though calories were the same. Old fat takes longer to leave. :)

3 weeks is nothing. It took me 6 months at least to get rid of the wobble. Fat was there physically and there's a lot of SPACE where it was. Go with the recomp. It will make you feel healthier anyway. Then you can decide what to do. And congratulations!

Congratulations!

Relax, it will make you happier and you'll have an easier time maintaining. The problem is never the first cookie, it's the second or the fifth. If you build things you love to eat into your day, you won't feel like you're depriving yourself. Eat mindfully. Not like - oh many calories is that? - but wow this tastes good…

Congratulations! I agree with everyone else. It's hard to figure calories when your activity is so different from everyone else's. My brother-in-law has Parkinson's and has the same problem. But start eating a little more and watch your weight. Nobody should be hungry! And talk to your therapists and doctors about ways to…

After maintaining several years, I did exactly what you did last January: took a trip and gained 5 pounds. I've done that before, it's always been water. I let it ride. Well, I hit August, and it was still there. 1) I went on a 250 calorie/day deficit 2) I watched my carbs and made sure they were under 40% (that's…

I think - I'm healthy and I feel great - is a good response. Frankly, it's a rude remark. People do worry - when people get very low body fat, you worry they're ill, but if they know you, the must know you're exercising, not sick. But mostly people's ideas of what we're supposed to look like is distorted by being around so…

I'm 5'10" and that's my maintenance because I'm 55. I'm set to sedentary. I typically earn an extra 200-600 calories a day and am happy to eat those calories back, but that varies. So no, I don't think it is low.

If it's something I really want to do, I'll definitely go over. Typically I'm not hungry for a few days afterwards and will make up the calories then. I make very sure to hit my weekly goal. One of the gigs with maintenance is that if you go over consistently, you will gain. When you were at a deficit, you'd just stop…

Actually, it's just as easy. You still follow the formula. Up you calories to what MFP calculates for you. Log everything. Eat what you're hungry for within that limit. If you gain outside your maintenance range (I gave myself 5 pounds that I considered to be where my normal fluctuations would fall), lower your calories by…

Like Sijomial said. Your body knows what it needs. You're burning muscle. That includes heart muscle.