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i am maintaining, well sort of. i reached my goal weight on friday! i am now eating maintainence calories (average of 1680 a day) and i have seen a 2.4lb gain, but tonight i have seen slightly lower than this am so i am hoping come weigh in this fri i stay the same. wish you all the best

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i have been trying to maintain since friday and i am scared. i liked the control of losing the weight but now i have to chill a little and let things relax. eating the extra calories is killing me, and i seem unable to do it. i can't justify uping my calories. i am used to working it all out, for instance 51 calorie bread…

my, what i would do to have your numbers! maintenance for me is around the 1600 mark, but yes your zigzag seems ok. i zigzag but don't eat my exercise calories.

i too would like to know the answer to this question.

oh, please don't ban coffee. very much needed at 7am with 3hrs sleep!! can't function without it, i have tried but after 3 days i can barely sleep. coffee withdrawal causes horrendous headaches! watch you ban coffee lol, as long as i can have 2-3 cups a day i am in! i currently drink between 6-10 cups a day eeek

I'm in! will weigh this friday as normal then post my results on Sunday. well i do at least an hr exercise mon-fri but nothing on weekends (oops)

it might be because i have only ever tried dresses on in h+m. ones which totally zip up at the back. maybe my friend didn't try hard enough zipping me up. i find my (o)(o)'s are still quite big dispite my size. i measure a 34C in m+s yet the shop assistant let me buy a 34D because i couldn't house a C cup.

this is how i have did it since i started. doubt i could do it any other way. i weigh on a friday, friday i ate 3400 kcal, sat 1100 and today will be around 1200. tomorrow back up to 1600 ish. am trying to maintain now though. my high days are great, i feel satisfied to the point i can handle the low days. without a high…

i think it is because i am top heavy. like an upside down traffic cone! my hips are non existant. my hips where 41" when my waist was 46". now my hips are 34" and waist 28".

that's so odd, when i was pregnant i was a size 22 and next maternity jeans in a size 14 where massive!

ok thank you, i just didn't want to get a 12 in case it was like a tent or an 8 in case of it being too small. will order the size 8 and see how i get on

may i be one of the first to say welcome, it will take you a while to get used to things. at my peak i was 248 but managed to get down to 216lb before i started "dieting" i am currently 122lb. the first few days are the hardest. laura

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i don't eat mine at all, and i am breast feeding (don't count that either) i do have a slow metabilsm though. if i eat maintenance calories i shoot up a few £s!!! but i have lost every week so guess i am doing something right

they are the scales i have, and they weigh me exactly the same as boots own (the ones in store) am pretty amazed with them. especially when this am i saw 18 percent body fat, 43.2 percent muscle mass. 60.7 percent body water. and somehow my bmr has gone up from 1411 yest to 1422 today (my legs are aching from this mornings…

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oh and i have 40 percent body muscle (according to my scales) with body fat of 19.7 percent and body water of 59 percent

are you based in the USA? because i don't think we can get that here in the uk. i usually have carbs for breakfast but not enough fibre, so maybe i should add strawberrys (not in season but hey ho) and plums to my list too. i might also try alpen or something along those lines. my instant thought is yuck but needs must..…

i have set my planner to sedenary or however you spell it but i do count in walks, especially school runs. in fact me and my son jogged this morning (13 mins it took us) and i went into town after and set that too. stopped my pedometer and re started it for this pm's run. i burned 181 cals apparently but i think i have…

this is what i have been doing since june 4th 2010. i used to have a friday off (2000 cals+) have around 1000, sat and sun. monday around 1400, tue, wed, 1200 and 1000 thur. the high day is used for treats etc (most call it a cheat day) and i lose anywhere from 0.2lb a week and sometimes 3.2lb a week. i don't add in…

i am in the same boat, i have 3 children. my eldest is 4, middle is 3 and baby is 17 months old (breastfed day and night sometimes 10+ feedis in 24hrs! i was 14 stone before my first child, 17 stone 10lb after my second and am now 9 stone 3.8lb friend me if you want to laura

i am 5ft 7" and currently 129.8lb (9 stone 3.8lb) i am a uk size 8 but was a size at 10 stone 10lb. seem to lose and inch for every 5lb loss

i didn't know they allowed for breast feeding, i breast feed my 17 month old 5-6 times a day! so how do i add these calories? i don't get how you found the option help thanks laura

thing is tonight i am having a "girls" night out, first night out since baby was born (she 17 months) we are going for a meal, and i know with this mornings gain tomorrow i will be at least 3lb up. i will try and choose the healthy option but everyone assums i will be drinking hence why i ain't driving and the others are.…

i am new to this board but have lost 68lb since june 4th 2010. i zigzag my calories, and it works. 400-500 is too low though. on my super low days i eat around 800, low day 1000, medium 1200, high 1600 and super high 2000+. yest i ate 900 but today i have eaten 1300 already and i will probably eat 400 or so more. you will…