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True, but I wish they'd not bought it so someone else could have it or take it back with them! I ended up having half a chocolate melt in the middle pot and it fit in my calories, so it worked out fine in the end.

I find it hard to get to maintenance calories consistently. I seem to be able to do it for a few days then drop back down for a bit, then overeat a bit, then get back to maintenance. It evens out but sometimes it's a headache. Slowly but surely getting better at it.

I write sci fi and fantasy books and am a university lecturer.

Yep. My husband has chronic insomnia despite eating at maintenance. I oversleep if anything, but if I go to bed hungry it takes me way longer to fall asleep. OP, have you tried eating something small right before bed? The other day I woke up in the middle of the night really hungry so I got up, made some oatmeal, went back…

IMO they're probably about as effective as those 1950s fat jiggling machines.

If your aim is to lose, confused why you started a thread in maintaining? Is 1500 what MFP advises you to eat? Follow their advice and don't set too aggressive a loss as it can be hard to sustain. Almond milk tastes fine. I prefer oat milk in coffee and tea. Hazlenut and coconut are also good. I'm indifferent to salmon--I…

Just echoing everyone else. Make sure you're eating enough, drinking enough water, etc. See your doctor and get a blood test or discuss the possibility of depression. I was like that for a few months last year and it's because I was bulimic and depressed. It was easier to do nothing. My energy is a lot better now that I'm…

I do something similar--keffir or skyr, frozen cherries, chocolate protein whey powder. I still eat actual chocolate if I want it, though.

I tend to eat back 50%, unless I'm really hungry then I figure my body wants it.

I did point out to my husband when I noticed him gaining a lot (for him, he's always been slender), just because it seemed unlike him. Basically he'd started a new desk job and took the bus, so not his usual walking. As soon as he started walking again, slightly looked after his nutrition, and did some occasional fitness…

I'm the same height as you. You're the same weight I was when I was anorexic but I'm a girl. I'm currently just over 150. Your sister has an eating disorder, but I am about 99.9% certain you do too. Please talk to your parents. See if you can see a nutritionist, a psychologist, both. If eating more calories is proving…

My husband the human garbage disposal ended up eating the sausage rolls at least, haha. I took a bite as an afternoon snack but wasn't in the mood. Wasn't worth it.

Like others said, our ancestors' notion of portion control was...famines. We ate when we could. Now we can eat whenever and it can be easy to overindulge even when you think you're listening to your body. It can also be easy to over-restrict when 'listening to your body.' I did that and kept only eating like 1400 calories,…

It's mostly just my husband who sees me use it and he doesn't care, but I get self conscious around others I don't know as well as I do worry it looks obsessive. I tend to just guess when lots of people are over since I have a good eye for it by now--like yesterday when my husband's parents were over. They're also the type…

I did cardio for years and yeah it made me a bit smaller, but it didn't change my shape or anything. Started lifting last year and I have abs for the first time and definition in my arms. I weigh a little more than when I did only cardio but my clothes are looser and I look better. I still do cardio but mostly just walking…

Yes, definitely. Me and my thoughts around food were very disordered. It's once I started digging into why I felt this overwhelming need to control, to over-restrict and then inevitably lose control, that I finally healed (or am in the process of healing). I'm even in therapy for it so I can knock it for good this time and…

Name: Laura Age: 30 Height: 5'11.5" (I often round up to 6 ft but that's probably cheating) Total weight lost: About 13 pounds, but gained muscle/lost fat Time it took to lose: 5 months How long in maintenance: 6 months Maintenance weight range: 151-155 Average weight recorded from 2018: Constantly gaining and losing the…

I recently had lower back issues and it was a result of: - a weaker core - tight hamstrings (they're naturally tight but they got even tighter from doing a lot of walking with a backpack) - generally not stretching or resting enough I kept up my yoga and weight lifting but specifically stretched my hamstrings a LOT more…

I do a bit of a blend. I count calories but I'm not too stringent with it. I weigh most things at home but not every morsel. For instance I just count 200 ml of milk once for the tea/coffee I have throughout the day. Is that perfectly accurate? Probably not. I don't care. Close enough. Also if I eat out or at a friend's I…

I think my fitbit adjusts to make sure my overall calorie burn is more or less synonymous. That's why I make sure if I manually log yoga or weights, I enter the right time so my fitbit can adjust. I still tend to only eat back half the exercise calories in case I'm overestimating exercise burn or underestimating calories.

Carbs are great.

Keep doing yoga regularly. Read in the bath once a week or once every other week. Read more. Have more screen free time. I deleted Twitter/FB off my phone months ago and I'm never going back.

I'm sort of cheating with a before and after, but it's not a huge weight difference, more a change in outlook. I just made these. There's maybe a 10-14 pound difference between them (165 to 152 at 5'11"), but before I did very little weight lifting (but was training for a half marathon), and now I do weights + yoga (don't…

I walk a fair amount (live in a European city and don't drive) but otherwise don't do much cardio. The rest of my exercise is weights or yoga 3-4 times a week usually. I maintain on about 2,200, but I'm also pretty tall (just under 6 ft)

Agreed agreed! I just read the book The *kitten* it Diet which is basically intuitive eating but with more swearing. I didn't agree with all of it (she basically says no to tracking, but with my bulimia past it's better for me to roughly track calories, even if I'm not super stringent with it). But I found it a useful…

I found once I consistently fed myself at maintenance for awhile, my urges to binge/purge largely went away. Not entirely, and my recovery is still relatively new and I'm getting weekly therapy for it, mostly looking at my root need to control things like my food as soon as my life gets stressful. But as soon as I stopped…

I range anywhere from 1400 on days I'm not that hungry or active up to like 2600 on days I go out or am really active or just hungry AF that day. I'm in maintenance now but when I lost I still varied things. Life happens, I'm hungrier around my period, some days I exercise more than others. Sometimes I still emotionally…

Seconding strength training! Or even starting with body weight exercises like yoga.

I do that too. Big fan of roasting loads of cauliflower and broccoli and putting on a salad then adding the protein, fat, and carbs (e.g. meat or veggie patty, some cheese or avocado, and some beans and/or rice)

I'm right there with you. I had a severe eating disorder as a teen, and am having to come to grips with the 6 years I thought I was 'recovered' I was just gaining and losing the same 7-10 pounds over and over in slightly disordered ways (with my set weight point slowly creeping up) and thinking that was healthy. Determined…