Angierae75 Member

Yup. Sometimes 2, sometimes 5. I pretty much ignore my weight for about 4 days before until the last day of my cycle because it's useless info.

I am all about the slow loss because it means I will be making permanent changes to my diet that I can live with rather than restricting myself, making myself miserable, and then going right back to eating like crap as soon as I lose the weight.

My advice? Set to sedentary and get a fitness tracker. Then you'll know if you can eat a little more on your busier days.

If I’m hungry, I eat all my Fitbit calories. If I’m not, I don’t. I’ve lost 45 pounds.

I’ve lost 45 pounds so far. I ate half a bag of M&M’s after dinner. I’m within my calories and I wanted chocolate. So I had some.

When I gained 100 lbs, I did it 10# a year. It crept on, over a decade. A gain of ten pounds in a year is almost nothing - Less than 100 extra calories a day. Oops.

I try to remind myself that skinny people enjoy parties, too. You've got the rest of your life to live. One day here or there is not going to be the end of the world.

Lately I'm around 7-8k but I just started wearing my fitbit again so I hope to see that go up.

I wasn't fat as a kid - I was 5'1" and about 120 when I graduated high school. I wasn't "skinny" but i was a totally normal BMI. But I got teased for being fat CONSTANTLY. And so you know what happened when I started putting on weight? I told myself "Well I'm already fat, what's another ten pounds? Whats another ten…

I have polycystic kidney disease. My GFR is bouncing between 16-19 and I am on the transplant list. My phosphorus has been fine, so I am not under any dietary restrictions in that regard at the moment. I am supposed to be watching my sodium but I will admit I am not that great about it. I am good with drinking the water…

Because the fitbit assumes that you will continue moving at the rate you're moving at for the rest of the day. If you get to 2000 steps by 10am, it assumes that you'll continue to move at that 'pace'. I'm at 2400 steps right now and it's added a small amount of calories (40, I think), but it assumes I'll continue that…

My fitbit is the only reason I've lost nearly 45 pounds. When I would try to lose weight before, I would set myself to sedentary, go "hey, I can only eat 1200 calories" and then a week later fail because that is NOT enough food. What my fitbit taught me is that I am not sedentary. I can eat between 1500-1700 calories a day…

I do the approximations because if I'm cooking for the family, I'm not cooking my pasta separate. There's enough going on in the kitchen.

I'm set to sedentary, and I have an Alta (so no heart rate monitor) and I've lost 44 pounds eating back most of my calories. (I don't aim to leave some on the table, but sometimes I do because I'm just not that hungry. But on days I'm super hungry, you better believe i eat ever last one of them.)

Trying to eat too little.

Also, keep in mind that a size 4 right now is not the same as a size 4 from ten years ago due to vanity sizing. So you might not feel as small as you were last time you wore a 4...because you aren't. But you're still making amazing progress and you should be proud.

I am never sure what people are talking about when they say "hunger pangs." If my stomach is growling, I'm hungry, and I need to eat. I space my food out to allow for between meal snacks. Are people talking about actual stomach pain? Because that isn't something I've ever felt because I was hungry. Otherwise, if I just…

I credit my fitbit with my 43 pound weight loss. Having something to motivate me to move throughout the day and to show me that I am not "sedentary" and that I can eat more than I thought I could and still lose weight enabled me to eat at a level that I was comfortable and still lose weight. I kept trying to lose weight on…

You could weigh yourself on ten scales and get ten different weights. Just pick one and use it.

I could never lose weight until I accepted that eating at 1200 calories and starving myself was not going to work, because I can't keep that up. These days I eat between 1500-1700 (I'm 5'1" and 182 at the moment, down from 225.) Once I realized that I didn't have to starve myself to lose weight, the weight came off.

We're having a party. I'm making chili (I need to throw it into the recipe calculator to see how much of it I get to have) and I'll be on my feet most of the day getting ready for the party, so I think I'll be fine. Chili, whatever dessert we end up with, a serving of chips and guac. I can't have alcohol so that helps.

I do the same thing, and make sure when I put it down to weigh, I put it in the exact same place.

Sizes have definitely changed. Back in the 90's at 125 I was in a size ten. Now, at 180 I'm in a 14. I'll be back in a ten by 160.

My Fitbit is set to sedentary so that if I have a non-active day, it doesn't take calories away. I have the same baseline calorie allotment every day. Extra active days = extra food.

For me its less physical (stomach growling) hunger and more "I want to eat", which is how I got fat in the first place. That can be difficult, but I keep fruits and veggies around and try to leave wiggle room for snacks in my daily plan.

I eat mine back. Basically, I have myself set to sedentary just in case I have a lazy day. Usually I don't. So I'm not _really_ sedentary. If I set myself to active like I should be, they'd just be there every day, but then it would take them away on lazy days. so I'd rather look at them as "extra" than "losing" calories…

Prednisone absolutely will do that. My transplant clinic has me losing weight now because post-transplant I will probably be on prednisone for at least six months, and there will be weight gain, and they want to make sure I don't have any complications from that.

I usually start cramping the day before I start. I stay off the scale from then until about 2 days after my period stops. My weight loss evens out - I still lost the right amount of weight, but it takes a little longer for it to show up.

For me, eating them was the secret to my weight loss. Because if I could eat more, I was more likely to stick with the program.

Good luck! It really was amazing for me when I got there :)