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Wow! Great going. Super pics :).

You only have one life. Just do it. Nobody at the gym is going to pay attention to you. They’re there for their own health. You need to be there for your own health.

I took 2 months off logging, ate pretty much whatever I wanted, and gained 10 pounds. Am down 2 and getting back in the groove. After 5 years I’m still learning- the hard way. But, I did eat lots of yummy foods.....

I agree with this, as over the years I’ve slipped a meal here and there and a day here and there and get back to my regular weight with little effort. It’s when I do the day after day for weeks or months, eat whatever I want, that I gain weight. I still record the calories though, when I do a meal or two over. When it’s…

I’ve been on here for 5 years. The longest derail I had was for about 6 months. Each time I derail I really enjoy over eating fattening but yummy foods. For me, having to lose more than 8 pounds usually is the kick in the butt I need. Get on the scale and ask yourself how many more unwanted pounds will you have to gain…

Plan A. Stay with my structured plan. Plan B. Nobody is perfect. Move on and return to Plan A ASAP. (Not next month or next week, but the tomorrow). Plan C. It’s not too late. I ate a ton of stuff I wanted for a month and now, really now, it’s time to restart plan A. It’ll be easier now than in 2 months.

Yup. Been to goal weight 3 times. If I’d stay within 5 pounds of my goal weight (125) I’d say I’d maintained. But when I go up 8-11 pounds, to me, that isn’t maintaining. I’ve just gotten back into my maintenance range once again (128), trying to keep my focus and remember that I CAN make the right choices every day to…

Name: Fiddletime Maintenance- 3 years Goal maintenance range- 123-128 Current weight- 129.4 Recent success- I’m down from 136.6 heading back into my maintenance range again. I did it pretty quickly this time, in a couple of months. Strategy- i’ve switched to a lectin free diet (Plant Paradox book) for health reasons.…

I’m 64 and want to be fit and active for years to come. Like others, I want to be self sufficient in my older years. This keeps me exercising and it helps me to get back on track when my weight slips up.

I’m 5’2”, 134 and 64 yo. My maintenance is 1350 and slow weight loss is 1200 (not counting exercising). Eating 2 slices of pizza every week would really sabotage my process unless I banked calories, which is hard to do at 1200 per day. OP is also at 1200/d......

I’ve tried various techniques to lose the last ten pounds (because I have regained it). My least successful was losing quickly- a pound a week. Because I was ravenous and “got there” and quickly over ate. Losing a half pound a week has allowed me to reach goal and slip into maintenance easily. But, I really love sweets!…

It’s an interesting point actually. For some of us who have “maintained” for decades, it may have been a constant battle of being overweight, then normal BMI, then overweight again. My goal is to make my 20-25 pound weight swings never more than 6 pounds (I’m 5’2”). People who have had to lose larger amounts of weight may…

I weighed 125-135 in HS and still weigh that. It’s been a battle for 45 years (gasp!) and I’ve gone up to 150 (why I came on this site) and as low as 110 in graduate school. While I managed to keep at that range it was getting harder and harder. It’s disappointing that as we become seniors it isn’t any easier to be at an…

Me too. Sailed past my scream weight of 129 and am now 135 and am kicking myself (a little) and logging again. Only took me two months to gain 7 pounds. Hate that.

The biggest thing for me is that over the years in maintenance I’ve had big slips. Like, 2 months of no logging for various reasons. And, I always gain about 3-4 pounds a month. Rather than gaining 30 pounds, I finally kick myself and get back to logging and lose the weight. I think of it as a mini-yo-yo. You’ll have to…

I have gained 3 years in a row, around 7 #, during the holidays. It’s always because I stopped logging. 4 years ago I gained back 15 pounds- also because I stopped logging after a one meal overage that ended up lasting a few months. You have the tools to lose weight, but you will have slip ups. What I’ve learned over the…

I stayed right within my calorie limit yesterday and gained a pound overnight. I suspect it was from the salt in my Burmese lunch. That’s why I weigh daily. To get used to these fluctuations. (And I’ve been weighing daily for years, but nobody likes a weight gain when they’re actively engaged in maintaining or losing).

I declared maintenance at 5# over goal weight when I stayed there for 4 months. I was a good BMI but then I made an effort to lose the 5. Over the holidays I’m back up 5. But maintenance is a lot of ups and downs for many. It’s a range so there doesn’t need to be a set number. For me, I like to be at 125, but am now at…

OP, since I really like junk food I fit in a Klondike ice cream bar to my measly 1200 calories. It’s chocolate covered, 250 cal, and filling. I can’t have cakes, cookies, candy, etc in the house, but can manage just one Klondike bar. If you find something like that, it will make life more enjoyable!

This cracked me up as I eat 1340 cal maintenance and 1200 to lose. I was curious to know the calories in this breakfast.

My maintenance schedule is to lose the 7 pounds I gained from Halloween to New Years in the new year. It’s a little frustrating and I’m working next year on better logging- even through the holidays. Every day. I do that for the rest of the year, but Halloween just kind of gets me in the mood to slack off. OP- I totally…

Sophie you came to this country and totally rocked it. Your Ivy League degree and professional degree do indeed prove to all that you are one hard working and tough individual. As you know, and others have said, you are NOT your weight. If your weight is an issue for you down the road, I have no doubt you’ll do what it…

You’ll feel better and better about a lot of things as you’re losing. What I mean by that is, it isn’t the weight you are now and how you feel about that, then 100 pounds from now. As you lose 5 pounds over and over you’ll get what the poster above said- 5 pound parties. And if it takes you a year, or two, or three (there…

Many of us have problems around December. A few years ago I was in maintenance and just kind of stopped logging, loved eating and not logging, and gained the 25# I’d lost over a year, back. Back down to goal weight now, rather than going crazy logging over the holidays I “allow” myself to gain 6# back, and then it’s back…

Not at all.

Nice! My chart would look the exact opposite. Way to go!!

Here’s a picture of the piles of sweets. Ackkkkk!!

Two plates of homemade Christmas cookies, a box of assorted Godiva chocolates, homemade English toffee (4 pounds!) and delicious store bought English toffee have been added to the collection. This year I’ll just fit it into my calories. Really. I will! The sad thing is we only have 7 employees at work!

Way to go to reclaim your life, in spite of your illness. You posted in the maintaining thread. It would be great to see this in the Success Stores!

My goal weight is 125. I’m 5’2” and 64. From Halloween through Thanksgiving I basically ate a ton of candy and lots of pies and sweets. I gained 4 pounds and right after Thanksgiving I decided enough was enough, I’d gone a pound over my range, and needed to do what I know I can do. I slowly have lost a pound and have my…