jimshine Member

3 pounds is normal for me. Usually it is just water retention. I have gone up as much as 7 pounds after taking a couple day break from tracking. Even then it usually drops off as fast (within a week) and I resume where I left off.

I have them about once a week. I try to stay under my maintenance amount, but certainly exceed my goal amount. After doing it by the book all week, eating at the maintenance level seems like a pig out.

Just keep going. The fat has to go away eventually. That is just likely the last place you will burn it. FWIW, I carry most all of my extra weight in my stomach. I wear my pants on my gut. When I started this 90 pounds ago, I wore a 42 inch waist pants. For about 70 pounds of that I only lost about 3 inches. Over the past…

The body doesn't work on a 24 hour cycle. We just come up with methods to use existing time frames. I actually do my exercise at the very end of my day, log it into the following day, and eat back all those calories. Been doing that from the start. So I am proof it works not just occasionally, but daily if you wish.

I was 300 pounds last December. Lost a little after getting the flu, then started here in March. There have been times I lose fast, times it slows down, but hell, 89 pounds in under a year isn't that bad. Ofcourse I would love to speed it up, but it doesn't work that way.

I too am a coffee addict. I cut back on how much sugar I use. I buy packets of raw sugar and use half in each mug of coffee. It takes that bitter after taste off. It takes a little getting used to, but it does work.

I have struggled with the loose skin. Every day I lotion up once in the morning, once at night. I alternate between a firming lotion and cocoa butter. Plus I take vitamin E. Since I started doing these things back around May, I have gone through 2 phases where I noticed sudden tightening of my skin. Not complete…

There are far more processed, crap quality foods floating around at the average supermarket these days than at McDonalds. Especially in the freezer section.

I eat too much sodium, so I tend to retain water. But I see it all over my body, not just my gut. I mainly see it in my hands and my ankles.

I grossly underrated the calories in the foods I was eating.

I believe on average days I probably ate around 2500-3000. Then some days I may do up to 5000.

I discovered the same thing this past summer. I had hit a wall for about 3 weeks. I spent about 5 days eating more, gained a little, and it broke the plateau.

I hope to hit my first goal by then and be on a less aggressive, 1 pound a week deficit.

I was not far off and I started out eating about the same calories. Yes, it did work. Infact those earliest days I lost much quicker. Enjoy it because as you lose the intake goes down. I am now in the 1400's a day as a base.

It appears that water retention, waste, and added glycogen storage after increasing calorie intake a few days can add some brief pounds that go rather quickly.

One of the first signs I had that I was losing weight was in my face. I developed this wrinkle on my chin. It has aged me a little as my skin is loose, so it shows wrinkles I never had. But it is indeed firming up. For me the biggest change is in the chin and neck. I had no defined jawline. Now I do. Here I was at about 50…

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I was always afraid of stepping on a scale, so I went years without. At one point none of my clothes were fitting, so I weighed myself and I was 318 at 6' 2". There may have been a time I exceeded that and didn't know.

I figure I was about 100 pounds overweight at the start. It was around 40 pounds in people started noticing. Around 60 in people started noticing the continued loss. But there is a factor involved here. I still wore my old clothes until that 60 pound mark. They got so baggy I had to get some new ones. If you continue to…

Had mine out about 13 years ago. My side effect was bad acid reflux. For years it was triggered by unpredictable foods. But as time went on it happened almost everyday. By February this year I would go through a bottle of pills every two weeks or so. Once I started this diet 6 months ago, I had not one instance of acid…

"What's your point? Hospitals are trying to make people retain and sometimes gain weight after being ill. " Sometimes hospitals just give you enough to survive. I was on life support for a month..they gave me 1200 calories a day via feeding tube. When I finally woke up, I was all fat, no muscle. I could barely hold a cup.

There is nothing wrong with the surgery. The problem is though there is an attempt to educate the people on how to rethink their eating habits, it often tends to not sink in. If someone gets this surgery and doesn't understand the mechanics behind it all, they likely will keep eating like they did and eventually stretch…

My goal is 110. I started this diet with no guidance at the end of February. I was getting sick because I wasn't eating enough, so I found MFP. Initially I didn't have my own scale, I used one at work to get my initial weight. I bought one a few weeks later, so my first month or so is unknown in terms of what and how fast…

Don't worry. My weight fluctuates 3-4 pounds all the time. I will see an increase, then a drop below where I was at. Don't weigh yourself so often. In fact, the best way (no pun intended) is to hold off until you feel or see a difference. I usually can tell in how my belt fits if there is a change.

We are similar. I am 6' 2", currently 220 and MFP has me at 1500 calories a day right now. I walk 45 minutes a night averaging about 3.6 MPH (I have a issue with a leg, so I am not able to get the speed up much beyond that). I log those calories and often eat them back. I hit a plateau in the 230's. My weight didn't really…

Before the diet, once a day after coffee in the morning. Now I usually have to go at least twice a day, sometimes three times. After eating supper I always have to go and sometimes there is another "run" somewhere in between. I don't usually get the runs, but I am not logging either. More like a bunch of banana…

It is okay to take a break. You discovered how important logging really is. So look at it as discovery, not a failure. Get back on the horse and back on track. All is good!

Many times. The interesting thing I realized the last couple times is my iPhone locks when you call it now. It keeps the line connected until you unlock it manually and hang up, or they hang up. If they hang up first, you still have to unlock it and clear the call before it goes back to standard operating.

Not breaking out, but my face is more oily than it was.

I discovered the same thing. I realize I was terrible at guesstimating what I was eating. If I plan on never going back, I will be counting calories forever,