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honestly I choose to focus on successful maintainers and their success inspires me. Unfortunately 70 % of adults in many countries are overweight, 10 % of people don't need to worry about weight. This leaves 20 that managed, with efforts to remain healthy weight. They are the group I am interested in I went trough few ups…

I agree, whatever you decide it doesn't have to be forever and a maintenance break could help you decide on what is the right thing to do well done

Yes @rainbow198 I am just in maintenance since September. Hopefully in few years it won't be a thing, but right now I feel it's important for me to stay on course.

It's not for me. 2 work parties, one for our team and one with team I used to work - girls night out Night out with few friends Night out with the mums (my sons soccer team) Extended family event Out to see the Christmas lights & the new star wars & meal with my son & husband Close family meal out the day before Christmas…

sometimes I do but I look at the quality of my calories and trying to improve over time, without overcompensating for example in the past it may have happened that I snacked on too much fruit, or I had oatcake thinking I will have one and end up having 6, 3 days in row. If I am hungry at my maintenance level for few days…

thanks for the link.

I will up my cardio little this year. agree it's not only one night at all. I have two work nights out, night out with friends, football club mammies night out, tennis club night out, family day out to see the light & meal, family meal out with close relatives the day before Christmas, family day with extended family,…

I had my fitness pal set up on maintenance even during weight loss and synced with fitbit. It's still set up like this, I just make sure that I recalculate if there is weight change. I change my carb fat protein % but I don't look at them that much so I don't know why I bother! My goal was, and still is not to go over and…

I am glad you are taking advise on board. Look after yourself agree with comments made, nothing else to say

no, I don't. But I track calories in maintenance so I am certain there is no drama. Sometimes I do it once or twice a week, others daily, others monthly I would do it daily if I don't track calories, but I don't see a harm of doing what works for you as long as it works for you

I think it's reasonable to expect some fluctuation, and some need to focus on remain at happy weight.

try? test the waters for week and see how it goes, you won't do much damage if you track consistently. It depends on how accurate you count your calories, how accurate is your calorie burn calculation

Fantastic! Well done. I am thinking of setting up maintainer group, I hit my goal this September and feel the need of having good support of other maintainers around

The reality is that you may need to figure things out consistently. Life changes and you may need to stay tuned in to how the current environment and lifestyle fits in with your goals and you may need to keep changing things to find what works for you now as it maybe different to what worked few months ago I find myself…

It doesn't rate weigh lifting highly. Definitely not accurate on this. But I feel it's the over all expanditure that is good and important to me. I had Garmin for few weeks and it's a mess in terms of daily total calculations Best approach is if you have the device and track calories use it for a month and see if numbers…

Would the 60 calories an hour be the difference? Like if you don't go in exercise mode it would calculate the total including what you would burn sleeping for that time. If you do it gives only the exercise calories excluding that 60 I am 5'7 and 130 lbs now. I lost weight creating super modest deficit and eating about…

their customer service is good if you decide to return it. As I said, I looked at data for 120 days, all calories tracked on my fitness pal, all calorie burn on fit bit, projected weight loss, actual weight loss and it was spot on. It came 34 calories a day overestimation. I love my fitbit!

yes, I would say checking is always worth it.

I will join with the goal to maintain, or loose 2 lbs for the full duration. Kind of happy where I am with weight, but I don't want to regain

Taste like heaven! calories 606 protein 38 tomatoes, cucumbers, feta, avocado, left over roast chicken, dry black olives, green pointy peppers, lettuce, ranch. i went heavier than planned on ranch but enjoyed it

looking good

This is amazing! Well done

I lost few more kg since but no dramatic difference. I may do another after on 1st of January

awesome well done

you can add me too. I am anywhere between 1900 to 2400 maintaining

Love all the posts. Thanks so much all for taking the time to reply to my long list of questions, it's really helpful and also - reassuring and inspirational Thank you

I lost 13 kg with fitbit mfp and fitbit was spot on. I looked at 120 days of weight loss (I actually took longer time, but reviewed 120 days) and if one kg is 7700 calories, fitbit was 34 calories a day overestimating. This to me is negligible

yeah, 2 slices of pizza cupcake and chocolate isn't a binge at all

Amazing transformation. Thanks for posting your story with us - Well Done

looking great, well done - fantastic progress