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I don't I feel a sense of failure. Back then it was just a different concept of "normal" -- larger portion sizes and lack of a balanced diet -- back then I was able to get away with it. Unfortunately that would go on to be bad for my health. I wrote checks in my 20s (lots of booze and carbs) that my body decided to "cash"…

Well said! I recently finished a gluten challenge and was screened for Celiac (talking to the GP next month) In addition to some digestive issues, gluten gives me eczema head to toe, and it clears up every time I go off it and I'm a little skeptical of gluten free products right now. It does feel a little bit like filling…

I'll only get through it if the Seahawks win. :smiley:

I have a deficit during the week because the weekends usually are PAR-TAY

For better or worse, I found I got used to my new body. I'm much fitter now than I was in 2013, and for a while I loved becoming thin but worried my chest was getting small. Now it's like that novelty of the "new thin" is gone but some of the self-consciousness went away as well.

On birthdays I always skip the gym and love the cake. I regret nothing. Daily life habits matter, but holidays are for fun. Happy birthday!

I've been dragging myself to the gym despite not really wanting to go You already answered your own question. If you're really not feeling it, sometimes you just have to do it anyway. :) I find motivation isn't always trustworthy, but established habit is. I go to the gym out of habit, even on days I may not feel like…

You can probably manage if you get steamed rice and vegetables with some chicken and keep the portions small. Save extra food for the next day if the portions are really large. Avoid anything deep fried, cut out the alcohol and dessert if you want to ease your conscience. But one meal won't harm you. I'd suggest…

I'm maintaining but Friday nights and sometimes Saturdays I cut loose. The rest of the week I'm very disciplined.

Were you measuring portions with a proper food scale? It's not worth counting calories if they aren't counted accurately. To each their own on this, though. I am at maintenance and take breaks from logging from time to time but doing it periodically has helped.

I have found the novelty wears off. I'm in the best shape I've been in 20 years, finding clothes is finally tolerable but I'm still feeling a bit "meh". I wasn't so heavy that it was debilitating my life, though. I guess it's different for everyone. The regular workouts help me with health and stress, though. So there's…

For me it's not motivation. It's habit. Some days I don't feel like working out or I want to eat enough food for two people. But the bottom line is that I have to make the conscious decision to maintain these habits more or less daily if I want to remain the weight I am at. If I did whatever I felt like or felt motivated…

Will only know for sure from your diary. But as for water retention -- do you live in a warm area? It's going to be a particularly hot August where I am and in hot weather I'm retaining water like a *kitten*.

Agreed with the previous post -- see an OB/GYN. I had medical supervision when I had to gain back weight after losing my periods from low body fat. When I was at the goal weight the doctor wanted, he temporarily prescribed me some hormones to "kickstart" it again since it had been gone for a while, I guess it needed a…

If I'm not mistaken, you are between 115 and 130, for someone that is 5'6" -- your heaviest was within a normal range and you're actually on the cusp of underweight right now according to the BMI (which doesn't tell the whole story, but your post is giving me red flags all the same). I am a little concerned because your…

1 pound a week is actually normal. It's just a lot of work to lose weight....and often not a lot to gain it :)

I never bother getting upset about what people post anonymously on the internet, at least as far as flame warriors go. Sometimes people are just blunt in their delivery and it's best to not take it personally.

Maintaining is way harder than losing, in my opinion. I don't feel skinny anymore, I just feel normal and average again. Watching over one's weight takes energy. Sometimes I just want to cast all my cares aside like I used to. BUT THEN... I ask myself "Do you want to stay at this weight, or not? You're free to just relax…

For better or worse, whatever happens, view it in the perspective that 2 weeks is just a small fraction of our entire year and the good habits we have the months prior and months afterwards. Do the best you can, be sensible, but don't stress about it. I had about 3 trips this year where I wasn't as diligent about logging…

One time my best friend's younger adolescent brother called me fat. I just looked at him weird because I was an active 16 year old at the time, not even remotely fat. My friend didn't say anything at all....she just went over and started punching him repeatedly. I still laugh about it.

Sometimes you have to just guess. You certainly aren't going to gain weight overnight because you were off a few calories with a sweet potato. Really, everything we log and the calories we burn are just estimates anyway. They give a pretty good idea, but we're never going to have absolute precision to the calorie.

I think sometimes that depends on your weight. I think if I was willing to be about 10 pounds heavier, I probably wouldn't have to log as much, if at all. But I really like the weight I'm at and have found to be more successful if I do log most days. When I took a few weeks off from logging completely and not going to the…

Like others have said, MFP is a tool. I think it is very good for logging intake when that's needed and interaction with others looking to do the same. But it's not going to take the place of professional help if that's what's needed to address any underlying issues that manifest in disordered eating and the need to binge,…

My periods went through a wacky time when I was losing weight as well. My weight is now at maintenance and has stabilized for a few months and they're still a bit irregular and I'm a thyroid patient which doesn't help. But it was a bigger problem when I was going through the weight loss. I'm not sure if they were always…

In addition to different builds, I think we also have our individual standards of what we consider acceptably "thin" as well. Some women are happy to carry some extra weight, as long as they are proportionate and can fit into a reasonable size of clothing. Others want to be really ripped and toned and invest in gym time in…

I haven't had that happen on FB too much save for one self-righteous turd. On here, I had someone add me and then they dropped me in the same day. WTF.

Nobody noticed I'd lost weight until I hit the maintenance stage. :laugh:

Every gym has their own culture and atmosphere. Even the time of day people come to work out sometimes brings different demographics of people. (I used to get my *kitten* kicked by these little old ladies swimming at the pool at 5am) I think Planet Fitness and Curves for women are good for people that aren't comfortable…

Nobody needs to know your nutritional goals -- it's none of their business. I usually just say "No, thanks" and if they ask why, I just tell them I'm not in the mood for it, or not hungry. I never told anyone I was dieting because I didn't want anyone to be up my butt about it. Stand your ground. They'll just have to get…

Sometimes life just happens and it's easy to lose focus. Just get back in the saddle!