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I am feeling very frustrated. I easily lost my Christmas weight. Then mid-February got a huge (7 pound) jump in what was clearly water weight. My rings don't fit and I can see it on my ankles. But the gain is real - my pants are tight. But my FACE and upper body looks better. I'm just sticking to my calorie goals and…

That's what I do.

It's a food. I log it like food and keep it within my calorie budget. I don't drink that much. The only thing that was a challenge was dark heavy beer. I just stopped drinking those.

I find I'm very satisfied with a little. One piece of chocolate. A quarter cup of ice cream. A cookie. Too much and I feel lousy. But I love the taste. I have read that cravings pass in 30 seconds. So I do something else. If I still want it five minutes later I eat it.

I have 1/4 cup of ice cream with nuts every night (150 calories). Or a square of high quality chocolate (35 calories). I like to eat, but I don't need a lot.

I've logged for seven years. It rarely affects what I eat because I know my pattern well now. But it keeps me mindful and in line. Studies show most people can lose weight. It's a lot harder to maintain it. I find logging it helps.

I gained 5 pounds but recommitted to Whole 30 for this month. No grains makes it easy to hit calorie and macro goals. And I’m exercising again. So I have lost all 5 since January 2 and looking forward to getting back in my zone. It feels good.

I look years and years younger. I see my younger self in the mirror.

BUT it is a lot harder to stay slim now than it was when I was young.

I am similar to you though a little taller. I have been here seven years and don’t feel like I’m dieting at all. I learned to eat the food I love, stop eating when I’m full, and not eat food I don’t care about. I also learned high calories food to be mindful of. When I’m hungry I eat. Doing that I’ve stayed within 10 lbs…

I seem to have points my body sits at. I saw it coming down. I see it going up. I can sit at 150, 165, 175. It's hard to maintain under 150. But it was pretty easy for me to maintain 150-155 as long as I was walking every day. Stop walking and I go to 165 and just sit there. Same calories. I'm 5'10" so 150-155 is the…

I had a 5 pound zone I set as my goal zone. I'd bounce around every day but stay there. Perfect maintenance would be staying in that zone. I was there 5 years. I am now over that weight, but still consider myself in maintenance because I am logging every day, hitting my goals, watching what I eat, but not actively trying…

I hit my weekly goal except for Thanksgiving and Christmas week (typically). I've been logging 6 years. I find I'm not hungry the next day if I'm more than a hundred calories over. So I listen to my body.

I weigh every morning after I go to the bathroom and before I eat. I know I'll bounce around within a few pounds. I worry when I bounce higher. If I weighed every week, I'd fret.

I think there are weights your body likes. For me, it's 150-155 and 160-165. It's hard for me to maintain in between.

I find protein keeps me feeling full. Any carb and I get hungry. The only exception to that is a SMALL amount of ice cream (1/4 cup high quality) with yogurt and nuts to up the protein and cut the sweet taste is very satisfying and keeps me from being hungry.

I eat 1/4 cup of very high quality ice cream with nuts and a spoon of yogurt around 9. Nuts are VERY high in calories. Cheese is very high in calories. Lentils and other beans are very high calories. Oh my gosh! DATES and FIGS are very high calories. Any staple of any regional diet is very high in calories. When I was…

I try to hit daily goals but always hit weekly goals. I know that I'll be high on Friday and go over. But I'll be less hungry the next day. Typically I go over maybe two weeks a year (Christmas to New Years and a random week I'm traveling). But most weeks I'm way under. You can't just 'get over it' because it's easy to get…

I like logging. It's been six years. It's a nice habit that encourages mindfulness. At this point I don't think it changes my eating but it's good for me.

I do think it's water. That's my point. I never thought that I could gain 10 pounds in fat in four days eating normal meals. It is water. I just don't know why I can't shed it after I return from traveling and a higher carb/higher salt diet. I always could. It has taken longer and longer. Now I simply can't. The answer is,…

I know I don't overeat traveling - I actually eat very sparsely and carry a lot of food with me. But it's salty. High salt and flying put on a lot of water. I expect that. I actually am pretty positive I know what's wrong. This thread has been helping me think through it. It's carbs. You may not be sensitive to carbs, but…

The sodium has become a major issue. It could be a kidney issue. But doubling down on portion size is a food suggestion. All else, truth be told, there's new fat on my formerly petite backside.

I never gain at home. It goes in bumps when I travel. And I eat sparcely when I travel and it will be three days and I gain ten pounds. That's not fat. The issue is how long it takes to lose it.

I did Whole30 for a nine months last year. I just needed a break. We have other specialized diets in our home (celiac and low tyramine) and after a while it was too much.

I weigh every morning after I brush my teeth. It's going to fluctuate - I know that. I look at new lows and new highs. If I weighed once a week I'd start fretting about variations. Now, I expect them.

It's a prospective study. EVERYONE in the study was successful at losing a significant amount of weight and keeping it off a year. So all our successful dieters. What these studies look at is differentiating those who drift back to their baseline weight from those who don't by predicting group membership as a function of…

It took forever the first time for me too.

Late June, early July. AND please remember you can skip any question you don't want to answer.

The reason I joined was two-fold. First, it helps others on their journey. Before I started losing weight, I read their research and it helped me a LOT in figuring out how to lose and how to maintain. I wanted to share. It also holds me accountable. Every year when June comes up, I start thinking about whether I've lost of…