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Gained 4 real pounds in the past month. Time to get back on the horse. It WAS fun eating all that I wanted since before Halloween, but.......!

I’m 5’2” and have lost 25# over and over between regaining. Now I’ve been maintaining for over a year. My goal is 125 but I know Halloween to Christmas is tough for me- so many really yummy foods. I’m up 4# in a month and my maintenance range is 1-3# so here I am again, like a nooby, logging and weighing. Hang in there.…

I’m 5’2” and have broad shoulders. I was 130 for almost a year but am now at 125 and have much better definition. I work out routinely and think I’d be best at 122. Any lower and I get gaunt looking.

Be patient. I’m 63 and 5’2”. Lost 15 pounds at 1200 cal then maintained that for 8 months. It was really hard to keep at 1200 cal and I probably averaged close to 1400. Two months ago I tightened up my logging and lost the 5 pounds in a month. I’ve kept it off. I finally got determined enough to put the effort in.

First, start logging. Then, tighten up the logging so that you include creamer and ketchup, and weigh foods when possible. Finally, stay under the calorie count, which might mean eating back only a half to 3/4 if your exercise burn. If you stall then the guesstimate for the exercise burn might be too high. You’ll lose the…

A big Mexican meal will make the scale go up a few pounds overnight for me. Sometimes it takes 5 days for me to get back where I started. The value of logging and weighing myself is so i can learn how my body works with retention of water, weight gain and loss, etc..

You’ll have ups and downs. Don’t panic on the ups because you know how to lose. You just need to tighten things up a bit to get back on track. Enjoy the extra calories!!

Yup. You have to log the good, the bad, and the ugly. A binge of 1000 calories isn’t a big deal, but two weeks of that is. Be honest with yourself to understand this process and how it works- for you.

I pre-log my day. I might have grapes and a banana in there as a snack for about 200 calories. If I really really wanted it, I’d check the calories on the donut I wanted, eat 200, and skip the fruit. The problem is I have a hard time eating 2/3rds of a donut so usually skip food like that. I pre-log 2-3 fudgesickles every…

Great going Jim!! Good luck with your surgery (and keep logging!). Easy, right!?

I hope you check in on this post once you get back. I have gained weight on some vacations, and not on others. On the ones I didn’t gain, I was calorie counting. The key is to get right back in the groove once you get back. If you gained, you can lose the few pounds of real gain you might have if you don’t panic. This is…

It so often seems that it’s so easy to eat 1000 calories over, and so hard to eat 175 calories less on average per day. That’s one of the reasons maintaining is so hard for so many. It requires constant work, but very little positive feed back from the scale. Now that you need to lose again, go back to the basics, and lose…

^^^ Great explanation of NEAT, BMI and EAT in that link. On the NEAT area I stopped using MFP to give me calories in some non-exercise activities. The two big ones for me were playing the fiddle and playing the clarinet, which I do 2-5 times a week. I also cut out gardening. I felt that part of the reason I didn’t lose…

In 6 weeks I only went over big time once. That was by 1500 calories and I binged two pieces of cake and a piece of pie, and set myself back a week. I could maintain, like you, doing that, but I wanted to not feel the “now I’ve started and I don’t ever want to stop eating this sugary food” thing. It shocked me how easy it…

I have 2-3 fudgesickles every night after dinner (90 cal each). If I crave more it’s usually because I’m undereating. Then I really want to splurge. I’m trying a cup of red grapes instead of the 3rd fudgesickle to be a little healthier. I’m beginning to find them very satisfying. Takes awhile tho.

I can gain 4 pounds in 3 days with a few meals out, and lose 4 pounds the following week. I’m sure you know that, but sometimes it’s easy to forget. Maintenance, for me, is learning how my body handles the slip ups, overages, dinners out, and so on, and then managing that. Sometimes that means calorie counting again,…

There also seem to be a lot of posts in the general boards by many different people- once or twice. Here, we don’t get as much panicked questions about eating too much for dinner last night, etc. Every day in the motivation folder I see quite a few of those.

Since you’re eating above the calories for a 1# weight loss per week, and you think you’re probably in maintenance, why don’t you just eat the recommended calories for that 1# a week loss? Most of us have found that sticking to the calorie count gets us results. I, personally, wouldn’t expect to train my stomach, nervous…

I’m 63 and agree that, for me, maintaining is a mini yo-yo of dieting within a narrow range of about 4 pounds. What Imtrying to avoid is a 30# yo-yo!

I went through a “not hungry” phase and lost 30# in 3 months to get me to 120. Then things shifted and I got hungry and promptly gained back my weight. I was really really hungry. Since she’s already lost the weight however, I’d also use mfp stats and have her enter all the stuff for maintenance. But, she has to eat again.…

I have 2-3 fudgesickles after dinner every night. My only concern is my nutritional balance if my dessert is a high percentage of my daily (1200) calories. They fit in, and I love them.

I am 5’ 2”, 63, and eating 1200 calories. I maintained for 8 months around 129, then got lazy and went up to 133. I decided to tighten up my logging by weighing everything and not eating out if I didn’t have a way to be accurate in my calorie count. I also stopped my one meal a week over “somewhat” ( probably a big culprit…

Yeah. I’ve given up on logging twice and immediately gained back 20# both times. I’ve bitten the bullet now because I know that basically I cant trust myself to do proper portion sizes. And then there’s candy! Hang in there. This is a learning process and now you learned, like so many of us have also learned the hard way,…

I also eat 1200 cal and maintained for a year but now want to lose the last 5#. I’m 5’2” and 129. I was eating half my best guess exercise calories back and was a little sloppy with logging and the scale didn’t move. Once I tightened up my logging and got rid of all but one a month overage days, the scale has started to…

Someone on a different thread wrote that they “wanted to eat like normal people do”. To me, that implies that counting calories and limiting portion size isn’t what normal people do. It should be. This weight management process takes practice and is never “over”. The alternative seems far worse, to me. Just do what the app…

How tall are you? Are you M or F? What do you currently weigh? You haven’t “gained weight”. A pound of weight gain over a couple of months is called Maintenance. You’ve found you maintenance range and are staying there. Many would consider that a success, not a failure. Are you 108 now?

When I derail, and don’t want to calorie count and log, and start eating more and more yummy food, I start gaining weight. It’s a pain to lose again so start back today. The key to mastering this program is right where you are now. It’s learning how to get back on the bike after you’ve fallen off. You just have to log and…

This is a marathon, not a sprint. It will take time. Relax, and just do the mfp program. You’ll lose the weight, over time.

Loved the video! “Just do it”!

I always put half my meal from a restaurant in a to go box. It used to be right away, but after a couple of years I got better at waiting till the end (and not eating all of it). It was a suggestion I got on here years ago, and is great. I don’t do anything else except count calories.